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Trust: A Very Short Introduction by Katherine Hawley
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension: trustworthiness is a virtue, and well-placed trust benefi ...Show more
Twelfth Night by Globe Education Staff; Hodder Education Staff (Editor); William Shakespeare
Category: Education | Series: Globe Education Shorter Shakespeare Ser.
Exam Board: Non-Specific Level: KS3 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2018 Get straight to the heart of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; students' confidence and understanding develop faster as they explore the plot, themes and Shakespeare's language, which is supported thro ...Show more
Unarmed and Dangerous (Slipstream Graphic) by David Orme
Category: Education | Series: Edge: Slipstream Short Fiction Level 1
Slipstream is a new generation of reading resources specifically designed for struggling and reluctant readers. Through exciting and carefully levelled texts, Slipstream enables readers to accelerate their reading experience. This illustrated story is part of Slipstream LEVEL 1. The 300-word text is lev ...Show more
Under the Diehard Brand by L. Ron Hubbard
Category: Fiction | Series: Western Short Stories Collection
Eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson has a chip on his shoulder and a mission in his heart to save his dad, an aging sheriff who's lost control of his town. Lee's plan is a dangerous one-mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the law is to break it. ...Show more
Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Peter Singer
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
Vampires are So Boring! by Helen Orme
Category: Picture Books | Series: Edge: Slipstream Short Fiction Level 2
Slipstream is a new generation of reading resources specifically designed for struggling and reluctant readers. Through exciting and carefully levelled texts, Slipstream enables readers to accelerate their reading experience. This book is part of Slipstream LEVEL 2. The 350-word text is levelled for rea ...Show more
Very Short Introduction to Folk Music by Mark Slobin
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by award-winning ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin this i ...Show more
Vikings - Raiders from the Sea by CASEMATE PUB & BOOK DIST LLC
Category: History | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake, but the encounter between cultu ...Show more
Viruses by Dorothy H. Crawford
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling oftheir intr ...Show more
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors - arguably the defining personality - of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our noti ...Show more
WESTERN HORIZON by BURCHELL DAVID
Category: unmapped | Series: Scribe Short Books Ser.
Depending on how you define it, Western Sydney contains as much as half of the population of Australia's largest city, spread out over a vast plain stretching eighty kilometres from north to south, and thirty or forty kilometres west to the foot of the Blue Mountains. It's one of Australia's youngest an ...Show more
WHOLPHIN NO 11 by HOFF,BRENT
Category: No Category | Series: Wholphin: DVD Magazine of Rare & Unseen Short Films
"Wholphin" is a quarterly DVD magazine collecting unseen short films, documentaries, animation, and instructional videos. Past issues have featured gems from Errol Morris, Alexander Payne, Steven Soderbergh, David O. Russell, Bob Odenkirk, Jessica Yu, Miranda July, and Dennis Hopper (surrounded by dynam ...Show more