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Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson (CalArts)
Category: Poetry | Series: Soft Skull Shortlit
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson was bor ...Show more
Jesus: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Bauckham
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
Two billion people today identify as Christians, with the implication that Jesus is the focus of their relationship with God, and their way of living in the world. Such followers of Jesus are now more numerous and make up a greater proportion of the world's population than ever before. Despite its decli ...Show more
Jewish History : A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers (Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History, UCLA)
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the long jo ...Show more
Judaism: A Very Short Introduction by Norman Solomon
Category: Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of those with the Jewish faith, Solomon explores how the Jewish religion has developed in the 2,000 years since the days of the Bible. This Very Short Intr ...Show more
Julius Caesar - Rome's Greatest Warlord by Simon Elliott
Category: History | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
A look at the remarkable military career of ancient Rome's most celebrated leader. Born into an aristocratic family, Julius Caesar has been an inspiration to countless military commanders over the past two millennia. His early military campaigns, part of his progression along the cursus honorum, range ...Show more
Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
Category: Self-Help | Series: Very Short Introductions
Explains the basic concepts of Jungian psychology, and examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sychronicity', and the psychology of gender differences. This book also discusses the stages of life, Jung's theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, a ...Show more
Just Over the Horizon: Complete Short Fiction by Greg Bear
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear Ser.
The New York Times Book Review hails this collection of thirteen dazzling stories and a rare screenplay by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Greg Bear as a "solid introduction to the oeuvre of a classic writer." Greg Bear--author of Queen of Angels, Eon, and Hull Zero Three, among many other hugely ...Show more
Kant - A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
Kant is one of the most influential modern philosophers, but also one of the most difficult. This book explores the background to Kant's work, and shows why the "Critique of Pure of Reason" has proved so enduring.
Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote widely on religious, psychological, and literary themes. This book shows how Kierkegaard developed his views in emphatic opposition to prevailing opinions. It describes his reaction to the ethical and religio ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
Category: Biography | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
Knights: Chivalry and Violence by John Sadler
Category: European History | Series: Casemate Short History
Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honourably and be loyal to their lord until death if necessary. Later chivalry came to encompass activities s ...Show more
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology ...Show more