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Modern India by Craig Jeffrey (Contribution by)
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extentare people be ...Show more
Music: a very short introduction by Nicholas Cook
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Category: Music | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
Presenting an introduction to music, this book draws on many examples ranging from Beethoven to the Spice Girls to Chinese zither music. It also prompts us to call on our personal musical experiences in order to think critically about the roles of the performer and the listener, and about music as a com ...Show more
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations of his thought range from the highly irrational to ...Show more
Nuclear Weapons: a Very Short Introduction by Joseph M. Siracusa
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is dec ...Show more
Philosophy: a Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces many themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, and other writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of doing philosophy, explains how many areas of philosophy are related, and explores the con ...Show more
Presocratic Philosophy : A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Osborne
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Relativity (A Very Short Introduction) by Stannard
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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
Robotics: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Winfield
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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
Russell by A.C. Grayling
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A.C. Grayling introduces both his technical contributions to logic and philosophy, and his wide-ranging views on education, politics, war, and sexual morality. ...Show more
Schopenhauer by Christopher Janaway
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer' ...Show more
Southeast Asia: a Very Short Introduction by James R. Rush
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor-- ...Show more
Stoicism by Brad Inwood
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Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This ...Show more