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The Celts: a Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. Barry Cunliffe seeks to reveal this fascinating people for the first time, exploring subjects such as trade, migration, and the evolution of Celtic traditio ...Show more
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary on Julian Assange: Short Black 9 by Robert Manne
Category: Biography | Series: Short Blacks
There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one. This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutiona ...Show more
The Dead Sea Scrolls by Timothy H. Lim
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Since their discovery in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have become an icon in popular culture that transcends their status as ancient Jewish manuscripts. Everyone has heard of the Scrolls, but amidst the conspiracies, the politics, and the sensational claims, it can be difficult to separate themyths from t ...Show more
The Famous Five Story Collection by Enid Blyton
Category: Children's Audio Books | Series: Famous Five: Short Stories
8 exciting dramatised adventures on 2 CDs, read by a cast of actors. Wherever the Famous Five are there's sure to be a mystery to solve and an adventure to enjoy.
The Father-thing by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The Collected Short Stories
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as 'Foster, You're Dead' a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and 'The Golden ...Show more
The First World War by Michael Howard
Category: Military | Series: Very Short Introductions
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This very short introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it ha ...Show more
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by William Doyle
Category: Popular History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work leads the reader to the realization that we are living with developments of the French Revolution. It looks at how the ancient regime became ancient, as well as examines cases in which achievement failed to match ambition ...Show more
The Ghetto: a Very Short Introduction by Bryan Cheyette
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European ghettos, which enabled genocide, werecrudely rehabi ...Show more
The Great Depression and the New Deal by Eric Rauchway
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures.Rauchway first describes ...Show more
The Happy Failure by Herman Melville
Category: Fiction | Series: Short Story Collections
"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville, ...Show more
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Thonemann
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube couldserve in the me ...Show more
The History of Medicine (A Very Short Introduction) by William Bynum
Category: Medical | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimen ...Show more