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Logic: A very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
Category: Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
An introduction to modern formal logic, this book explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how it deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time, to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Each chapter takes some philosophical problem, and explains h ...Show more
Love: A Very Short Introduction by Ronald De Sousa
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why shoul ...Show more
MACHIAVELLI A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by SKINNER QUENTIN
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli'sadult life, ...Show more
Magic by Owen Davies
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions
Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all but loses its sense altogether. For this reason, many pe ...Show more
Mandela by Elleke Boehmer
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
This book explores Nelson Mandela's personal development as well as his public activism, from his childhood as a member of the Thembu royal house through his emergence in the 1950s as a nationalist celebrity, his martyrdom in prison and, finally, his contemporary canonization as a transnational icon of ...Show more
Mao: A Very Short Introduction by Delia Davin
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation ...Show more
Marine Biology : a Very Short Introduction by Philip Mladenov
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The oceans are our planet's most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 percent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microscopic viruses, bacteria, and plankton to the largest existing animals; and possess many of Earth's most si ...Show more
Marx: a Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
Identifies the vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views. This book sees him as a philosopher, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. It explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, and concludes with ...Show more
Mathematical Finance: A Very Short Introduction by Davis, Mark H. A. (Senior Research Fello
Category: Business Finance & Law | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In recent years the finance industry has mushroomed to become an important part of modern economies, and many science and engineering graduates have joined the industry as quantitative analysts, with mathematical and computational skills that are needed to solve complex problems of asset valuation and r ...Show more
Mathematics: a Very Short Introduction by GOWERS TIMOTHY
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and readers of this book will emerge with a clearer understandingof paradox ...Show more
Medieval Britain by John Gillingham
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British ...Show more
Metaphysics - A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Metaphysics is traditionally one of the four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is an area that continues to attract and fascinate many people, even though it is generally thought to be highly complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or rel ...Show more