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Heather Clark

Sylvia Plath

In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life and work while discussing key themes in Plath's poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel…

Juliette Atkinson

George Eliot

This Very Short Introduction aims to show the extraordinary sophistication and self-awareness of Eliot's fiction, which resists any kind of moral or artistic simplification.

Fernanda Ferreira

Psycholinguistics

This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward ski…

Dinah Birch

Anthony Trollope

This Very Short Introduction will place Trollope's work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent scholarship to illuminate his central interests and literary strategies. Readers will find a…

Nancy A. Moran

Symbiosis

This VSI describes the nature of symbiosis and the evolutionary pressures that give rise to symbiotic associations as well as factors that lead to their demise. Nancy A. Moran explores examples from anima…

Ara H. Merjian

Futurism

From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the ideas, works, key figures, and de…

Saleem H. Ali

Sustainability

Sustainability has gained wide currency as an aspirational concept for humans to pursue in their relationship with our planet. This book provides a succinct overview of the scientific and social foundatio…

Ross Brann

Moses Maimonides

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most important Jewish figure of the pre-modern age.In this accessible introduction, Ross Brann…

Jennifer T. Roberts

Thucydides

An introduction to the thought and background of the Greek historian Thucydides, this book examines his account of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the context both of the international situatio…

Sean Murphy, Rachel Player

Cryptography

Cryptography is a part of everyday life, with most of us being daily users of it, often without knowing. In this second edition, Sean Murphy and Rachel Player explain how cryptography works, discuss its i…

E. J. Clery

Mary Wollstonecraft

This Very Short Introduction will examine the conditions for Mary Wollstonecraft's formation as a feminist, and will go on to look at Wollstonecraft as an educator, a political thinker, and a romantic.

Emma Borg, Sarah A. Fisher

Meaning

Our ability to use written and spoken signs to mean things is so integral to the kind of creatures we are, we seldom notice how incredible this ability is. Yet on reflection, meaning seems entirely myster…

Fernando Sor (1778-1839)

Gitarrenwerke "Airs Favoris a Paris"

Michel Grizard (Gitarre)

James E. Kelly

The Catholic Reformation

James E. Kelly traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginnings in the first half of the sixteenth century, through the years of unrest in Europe, to its global expansion in the Americas, Asia and Afri…

Brian D. Taylor

Russian Politics

Russia is rarely out of the news, yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. This Very Short Introductionprovides a guide to understanding Russian politics that goes beyond the headlines and off…

John Perry

Sports Psychology: A Complete Introduction

Think about your favorite sport. Now ask yourself how much of success in that sport is down to physical skills and how much is down to mental skills? We all know that physical skills are vital for perform…

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

An Introduction to the Music of Ralph Vaughan Wililams

Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside, Derek Welton, Joyful Company of Singers, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra u.a.

Aziz Z. Huq

The Rule of Law

By charting disagreements about the rule of law and showing the overlap and the conflicts between its different understandings, Aziz Z. Huq shows how that concept can be used as an important tool for fram…

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Introduction et Rondo capriccioso op. 28