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Keith Humphreys
Addiction: A Very Short Introduction

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Addiction is a subject which straddles public and personal interests, societal and criminal justice concerns, and social and medical responses. This Very Short Introduction is an accessible introduction t…

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Gill Plain
Agatha Christie

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life…

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Dinah Birch
Anthony Trollope

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAnthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while his m…

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James Loxton
Authoritarianism

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Authoritarianism is one of the buzzwords of our age. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the world of authoritarian regimes, including military, singl…

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Nick James
Cancer

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In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this pledge by…

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Monica Duffy Toft
Civil Wars: A Very Short Introduction

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Civil wars are nasty, brutish, and long. Monica Duffy Toft introduces this complex and timely topic.Civil wars are the most common form of large-scale political violence. In the past thirty years, the stu…

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Sean Murphy, Rachel Player
Cryptography

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Cryptography is a part of everyday life for almost all of us, though we may not realise we're using it.We are a far cry from the historical prediction that cryptography would only be used by militaries an…

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L. Sandy Maisel (Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government Emeritus, Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government Emeritus, Colby College), Jennifer A. Yoder (Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies, Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies, Colby College)
Elections: A Very Short Introduction

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Most citizens know how elections work in their own country, but not all elections are created equally.Elections occur in all democracies and many non-democratic regimes as well. They determine who will ho…

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Katharine Jenkins
Feminist Philosophy

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Katharine Jenkins offers an introduction to feminist philosophy, giving the reader an idea of what it is, why it is important, and how to think about …

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Ara H. Merjian
Futurism

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringFrom the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western Euro…

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Antoinette Burton
Gender History: A Very Short Introduction

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Antoinette Burton argues that gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work everywhere we look. This volume introduces the field of gender history--its origins, development, reception, recalibrations, …

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Juliette Atkinson
George Eliot

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringGeorge Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was jud…

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Lawrence Buell
Henry David Thoreau

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"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..."Henry Da…

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Patricia Daley, Ian Klinke
Human Geography

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This book offers an exciting and contemporary entry into the study of power systems and the way in which they have been constructed, subverted, and resisted over time.

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Matthew Townend
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and The Lo…

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Ilan Stavans
Jorge Luis Borges

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A celebration of the life and works of one of the most influential world literary figures of the twentieth century, thisVery Short Introduction traces Jorge Luis Borges's trajectory from his beginnings in…

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Joshua Landy
Marcel Proust: A Very Short Introduction

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100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time readers a…

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E. J. Clery
Mary Wollstonecraft

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , is a work…

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Emma Borg, Sarah A. Fisher
Meaning

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does meanin…

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Lucas A. Powe Jr.
Media Law: A Very Short Introduction

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Between 1964 and 1989, the US Supreme Court largely rewrote the constitutional law of the media. In doing so the Court protected virtually all materials from laws that penalized dissemination. But simulta…

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