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Darwin: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Howard
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Category: Nature | Series: Very Short Introductions
There is still scepticism about the value of Darwin's contribution to knowledge. In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, Jonathan Howard reasserts the importance of Darwin's work for the development of modern biology.
Diplomacy by Joseph M. Siracusa
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
Like making war, diplomacy has been around a very long time, at least since the Bronze Age. It was primitive by today's standards, there were few rules, but it was a recognizable form of diplomacy. Since then, diplomacy has evolved greatly, coming to mean different things, to different persons, at diffe ...Show more
Early Music by Thomas Forrest Kelly
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Category: Music | Series: Very Short Introductions
The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century. The revival of Gregorian chant in the early 19th cen ...Show more
Egyptian Myth : A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine Pinch
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Feminism by Margaret Walters
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one t ...Show more
Humanism by Stephen Law
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists, often find themselves misunderstood, and occasionally ...Show more
Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
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Category: Psychology | Series: Very Short Introductions
Explains the basic concepts of Jungian psychology, and examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sychronicity', and the psychology of gender differences. This book also discusses the stages of life, Jung's theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, a ...Show more
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology ...Show more
Literary Theory : a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study ...Show more
Logic : A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with ...Show more
Logic: A very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Metaphysics - A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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