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The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods by Tom Jackson, Mark Fletcher
Category: Science | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter, and then linking these to the history of science, as well as to the key theories and methods, the book simplifies ...Show more
The Short Story of Women Artists - A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions made to otherwise male-dominated artistic movements, and the forgotten and obscured artists who are now being rediscovered and rea ...Show more
The Short Story of the Universe: A Pocket Guide to the History, Structure, Theories and Building Blocks of the Cosmos by Gemma Lavender, Mark Fletcher
Category: Science | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of the Universe is a new introduction to the subject of the universe. Covering 130 key components that make it up - from dwarf galaxies and spiral arms to red giants and the planets of the solar system - and linking these to the universe's structure and the theories that help us understa ...Show more
The Shortest History of Germany - From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel--A Retelling for Our Times by James Hawes
Category: History | Series: Shortest History Ser.
2,000 years of all of Germany's history in one riveting afternoon, followed by The Shortest History of China A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern ...Show more
The Silk Road : a Very Short Introduction by James A. Millward
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid images: of merchants leading camel caravans over deserts and steppes to trade exotic goods in the bazaars of glittering Oriental cities, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to gather scriptures and spread their faith across continental expanses. Bey ...Show more
The Sky-Crasher by L. Ron Hubbard
Category: Fiction | Series: Historical Fiction Short Stories Collection
After the death of his father in an air stunt, ace pilot Caution Jones left flying behind. But he's about to find that if you want to get anywhere, you have to throw caution to the wind. His airline company's up for a monster contract, and the race is on to get it ... even if he has to climb back into t ...Show more
The Tempest (Short, Sharp Shakespeare Stories) by Anna Claybourne
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Short, Sharp Shakespeare Stories
A powerful storm, a dramatic shipwreck, an enchanted island, a sorcerer's daughter and a handsome prince...Discover the magical story at the heart of The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's best-loved plays. The age-appropriate text in Short, Sharp Shakespeare: The Tempest introduces readers to the play by re ...Show more
The Tribe by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Category: Fiction | Series: Giramondo Shorts Ser.
The Tribe is a collection of three novellas portraying life in an extended Muslim Allawite Lebanese-Australian family, as seen by one of its youngest members. The first novella describes the family house in the Sydney suburb of Alexandria, and the three generations who live, often in some discord, in it ...Show more
The Trojan War by Eric H. Cline
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has given rise to countless scholarly articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, epic mo ...Show more
The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis by Aaron Schuster
Category: Personal Development | Series: Short Circuits
Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, two of the most formidab ...Show more
The U. S. Civil War: a Very Short Introduction by Louis P. Masur
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape.Louis P. Masur's The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction offers ...Show more
The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction by Julian D. Richards
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
A Very Short IntroductionThe Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic culture. Highlighting the la ...Show more