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Nothing: A very short introduction by Frank Close
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very lat ...Show more
Nuclear Weapons (A Very Short Introduction) by Joseph M. Siracusa
$29.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 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 decidedly ...Show more
Quantum Theory by J.C. Polkinghorne
$29.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain u ...Show more
Relativity (A Very Short Introduction) by Stannard
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
Science and Religion (A Very Short Introduction) by DIXON THOMAS
$27.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these ...Show more
The History of Medicine (A Very Short Introduction) by William Bynum
$29.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimen ...Show more
The Quakers (A Very Short Introduction) by Pink Dandelion
$29.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. Emerging from the social unrest of the English civil war, the Quakers have gone on to have an influence way beyond their numbers: be it their continued stance against war or th ...Show more
Thomas Aquinas - A Very Short Introduction by Fergus Kerr
$18.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and engaged in conflict. This Very Short Introduction look ...Show more
World Mythology : a Very Short Introduction by David A. Leeming
$26.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain univer ...Show more