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Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
Law: A Very Short Introduction by Raymond Wacks
$18.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Law is at the heart of every society, protecting rights, imposing duties, and establishing a framework for the conduct of almost all social, political, and economic activity. Despite this, the law often seems a highly technical, perplexing mystery, with its antiquated and often impenetrable jargon, obso ...Show more
Leadership : A Very Short Introduction by Keith Grint
$25.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
The subject of leadership raises many questions: What is it? How does it differ from management and command? Are leaders born or bred? Who are the leaders? Do we actually need leaders? Inevitably, the answers are provocative and partial; leadership is a hugely important topic of debate. There are consta ...Show more
Literary Theory: a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
$29.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? Addressing such questions, this book offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, and outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and s ...Show more
Locke by John Dunn
$29.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but, its message has been ...Show more
Love: A Very Short Introduction by Ronald De Sousa
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why shoul ...Show more
Madness by Andrew Scull
$15.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole ind ...Show more
Magna Carta : A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Vincent
$19.98 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Very Short Introductions
The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. This Very Short Introduction introduces the document to a modern audience, explaining its origins in the troubled reign of King John, and tracin ...Show more
Mandela by Elleke Boehmer
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
This book explores Nelson Mandela's personal development as well as his public activism, from his childhood as a member of the Thembu royal house through his emergence in the 1950s as a nationalist celebrity, his martyrdom in prison and, finally, his contemporary canonization as a transnational icon of ...Show more
Mao: A Very Short Introduction by Delia Davin
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation ...Show more
Martyrdom : A Very Short Introduction by Jolyon Mitchell
$19.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Martyrdom is not only a sharply contested term and act, but it has a long history of provoking controversy. One person's 'martyr' is another's 'terrorist', and one person's 'martyrdom operation' is another's 'suicide bombing'. Suicide attacks have made recurring questions about martyrdom more pertinent ...Show more
Materials: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Hall
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
The study of materials and their properties - their strength, optical and electrical properties, for example - forms a major and heavily funded area of research which supports both innovation and technology. Using modern scientific techniques, material scientists can explore and manipulate materials eve ...Show more