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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
This introduction unravels the mysteries of the concept of postmodernism, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key ideas are explored and shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture. Paper ...Show more
Poststructuralism (Oxford Very Short Introduction Series) by Catherine Belsey
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions
Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this "Very Short Introduction" traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists ...Show more
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction by Chris Gosden
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
This VSI to prehistory will introduce the reader to four and a half million years of human existence. Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors ...Show more
Presocratic Philosophy : A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Osborne
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick
Category: Self-Help | Series: Very Short Introductions
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey o ...Show more
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Freda McManus
Category: Personal Development | Series: Very Short Introductions
Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and emotions, advertising and criminality. People readily behave as amateur psychologists, offering explanations for what people think, feel, and do. But what ex ...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
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
Renaissance Art : A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine A. Johnson
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions
Renewable Energy A Very Short Introduction by Jelley Nick
Category: Science | Series: Very short introduction
Energy is vital for a good standard of living, and much of the world's population does not have enough. Affordable and adequate sources of power that do not cause climate change or pollution are crucial; and renewables provide the answer. Wind and solar farms can now provide the cheapest electricity in ...Show more
Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Toye
Category: Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the 'art of persuasion', it is clear that we are all forced to engage with it at some level, if only because we are constantly exposed to the rhetor ...Show more
Robotics: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Winfield
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions
Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Robots are a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, and, for example, moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order. More recently robots have taken their first steps into ho ...Show more