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Fundamentalism
- 154 páginas
- Fundamentalism is seen as the major threat to world peace today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11, 2001. But what does "fundamentalism" really mean? Since it was coined by American...
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Chaos
- 176 páginas
- Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understand...
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Roman Empire
- 168 páginas
- The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. This introduction covers the history of the empire at its height, looking at its people, religions and social structures. It explains how it deployed violence, 'romanisation', and tactical power to...
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Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction
- 143 páginas
- Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the Western cultural heritage. Egyptian Mythology: A Very...
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The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction.
- 190 páginas
- This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a wholeâon different classes, ethnic groups,...
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Politics: A Very Short Introduction
- 128 páginas
- Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume provides...
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Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
- 142 páginas
- Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflictin...
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The Celts: A Very Short Introduction
- 161 páginas
- Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. From the ancient Romans to the present day, their real nature has been obscured by a tangled web of preconc...
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Engels: A Very Short Introduction
- 116 páginas
- An accessible history of the political thinker and philosopher. 8 b/w illus.
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Beginning at the 'arts' end of the subject with the common origins of languages, and finishing...
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Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
- 182 páginas
- This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chron...
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The Vikings
- 152 páginas
- The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic cult...
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Free Will
- 132 páginas
- Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of choices: some trivial, others so consequential that they change the course of one's life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free, or are we compelled to act the way we do...
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Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- Augustine was arguably the greatest early Christian philosopher. His teachings had a profound effect on Medieval scholarship, Renaissance humanism, and the religious controversies of both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Here, Henry Chadwick...
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Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
- 144 páginas
- What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists,...
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Twentieth-century Britain
- 136 páginas
- Authoritative short guides, many of which are taken from the top selling "Oxford Illustrated History of Britain" with updates and revisions ideally suited for students and readers interested in modern British history. The publisher is planning...
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Empire.
- 144 páginas
- A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all..
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Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
- 160 páginas
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist...
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Eighteenth-century Britain
- 119 páginas
- While the rest of eighteenth century Europe was embroiled in revolution and unrest, Britain..
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Jung: A Very Short Introduction
- 192 páginas
- Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for clear exposition and his ideas are less widely appreciated than they deserve. In this concise introduction, Anthony Stevens explains clearly the basic concep...
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