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Photography A Very Short Introduction by Steven Edwards
Category: Photography | Series: Very Short Introductions
Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives - from snapshots and tabloid newspapers to art photography in galleries and exhibitions. This book combines a sense of the historical development of photography with an insightful analysis of its purpose and meaning within a wider cultural context.
Plague: A Very Short Introduction by Slack, Paul (Emeritus Professor of Early
Category: History & Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the 'Plague of Justinian' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and India ...Show more
Planetary Systems: a Very Short Introduction by Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Not long ago, the Solar System was the only example of a planetary system - a star and the bodies orbiting it - that we knew. Now, we know thousands of planetary systems, and have even been able to observe planetary systems at the moment of their birth.This Very Short Introduction explores this new fron ...Show more
Plants by Timothy Walker
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's climate. Plants have also become essential to humans not only in the form of cereal crops, fruit, and vegetables, but in theirmany other use ...Show more
Plato (Very Short Introduction) by Julia Annas
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions
Focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. This work discusses his style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myt ...Show more
Populism : A Very Short Introduction by Cristobal Rovira Cas; Kaltwasser Mudde
Category: History & Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who arethe populist ...Show more
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
This introduction unravels the mysteries of the concept of postmodernism, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key ideas are explored and shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture. Paper ...Show more
Poststructuralism (Oxford Very Short Introduction Series) by Catherine Belsey
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions
Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this "Very Short Introduction" traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists ...Show more
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction by Chris Gosden
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
This VSI to prehistory will introduce the reader to four and a half million years of human existence. Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors ...Show more
Presocratic Philosophy : A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Osborne
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick
Category: Self-Help | Series: Very Short Introductions
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey o ...Show more
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Freda McManus
Category: Personal Development | Series: Very Short Introductions
Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and emotions, advertising and criminality. People readily behave as amateur psychologists, offering explanations for what people think, feel, and do. But what ex ...Show more