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Puppet And The Dwarf Peverse Core Of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Short Circuits
One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.
Pussy Riot - Speaking Punk to Power by Eliot Borenstein; Eugene M. Avrutin (Series edited by); Stephen M. Norris (Series edited by)
Category: Biography | Series: Russian Shorts Ser.
Both more and less than a band, Pussy Riot is continually misunderstood by the Western media. This book sets the record straight. After their scandalous performance of an anti-Putin protest song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the imprisonment of two of its members, the punk feminist ar ...Show more
Quantum Theory by J.C. Polkinghorne
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain u ...Show more
ROMAN LEGIONARIES SOLDIERS OF EMPIRE by ELLIOTT SAM
Category: History | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously trained, highly equipped, and motivated by pay, bonuses ...Show more
Rainy Day Stories by Enid Blyton
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Bumper Short Story Colle Ser.
Pull on your welly boots for these short stories by the world's best-loved story teller. Ideal for children aged 5 and up! In this charming collection by Enid Blyton, children stumble upon secret rooms on rainy days and gnomes pretend they can forecast the weather. The rain may be pouring down in these ...Show more
Raw: The Diary of an Anorexic by Lydia Davies
Category: Biography | Series: HarperTrue Life - A Short Read
Lydia was 19 years old and enjoying university with a loving family and great friends when she became anorexic. The doctors told her that she would die. This is Lydia's account of what anorexia did to her, how it changed her and how it impacted on her family, friends and all her choices in life. Her sto ...Show more
Rebellions and Revolutions by Jack Gray
Category: History | Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World
This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century, and its rapid emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party Revolution of 19 ...Show more
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice Short Black 4 by Helen Garner
Category: Biography | Series: Short Blacks
'They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who've never been loved and don't know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time ...And then there are the married ...Show more
Reinvention by Anthony Elliott
Category: Culture | Series: Shortcuts
Ours is the era of 'reinvention'. From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery, and from corporate rebranding to urban redesign: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary - especially bou ...Show more
Relativity (A Very Short Introduction) by Stannard
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
100 years ago, Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics. Our comforting Newtonian ideas of space and time were replaced by bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: if you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier; travel fast enough and you could w ...Show more
Reluctant Indonesians : The future of West papua by Clinton Fernandes
Category: History | Series: Scribe short books
In 1999 East Timor emerged victorious as an independent nation after a long struggle for liberation from Indonesia. But East Timor's hard-won independence also created a major crisis in Australia's relationship with Indonesia and jeopardised the stability of South-East Asia.Now the movement for independ ...Show more
Renaissance Art : A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine A. Johnson
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions