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Languages: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short...
14,44€13,71€
Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction
- 136 páginas
- The Magna Carta is arguably the greatest constitutional document in recorded history, yet few..
12,56€11,94€
Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction
- 155 páginas
- Are we born with our fears or do we learn them? Why do our fears persist? What purpose does anxiety
12,56€11,94€
The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction
- 136 páginas
- In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in
12,56€11,94€
Australia: A Very Short Introduction
- 150 páginas
- In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging thematic introduction to..
12,56€11,94€
Rivers: A Very Short Introduction
- 127 páginas
- Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing both town and country. The flow of rivers has enthused poets and painters, expl...
12,56€11,94€
Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction
- 112 páginas
- - Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivit...
12,56€11,94€
The Cultural Revolution
- 144 páginas
- China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation...
12,56€11,94€
Probability: A Very Short Introduction
- 128 páginas
- Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and modelling of most aspects of the world, and all measurement, are necessarily imprecise and involve...
12,56€11,94€
The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
- 160 páginas
- This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and..
12,56€11,94€
Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- Engineering is part of almost everything we do--from the buildings we live in and the roads and..
12,56€11,94€
Sleep: A Very Short Introduction
- 160 páginas
- Why do we need sleep? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? This Very Short..
12,56€11,94€
The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction
- 126 páginas
- The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by analysis of DNA and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). In this Very Short Introduction Peter Holland presents a modern tour of the...
12,56€11,94€
Reality: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- 'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. It is a question that, due to such films as The Matrix, has also made its way into popular culture. But it is not just a question philosophers ask....
12,56€11,94€
The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
- 145 páginas
- All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic'...
12,56€11,94€
Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary...
12,56€11,94€
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great...
12,56€11,94€
Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction
- 184 páginas
- Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ghettos and cultural fragmentation, providing fertile ground for Islamic radicalism, encouraging perverse...
12,56€11,94€
Leadership: A Very Short Introduction
- 152 páginas
- Napoleon. Bill Gates. George W. Bush. Osama bin Laden. Leaders and leadership are perennial topics..
12,56€11,94€
Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
- 184 páginas
- The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably different without the formative influence of Ancient Greek...
12,56€11,94€