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Llewelyn Morgan
Ovid: A Very Short Introduction

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably a…

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Roger Scruton
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

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Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. I…

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Stephen Gaukroger, Knox Peden
French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

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This book covers French philosophy from its origins in the sixteenth century up to the present, analysing it within its social, political, and cultural context. Throughout, the book explores the dilemma s…

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Wilson
Hieroglyphs A Very Short Introduction

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThe people of Ancient Egypt left behind many monuments and objects, covered in the writing now known as Egyptian hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were far more…

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Graham Priest
Logic: A Very Short Introduction

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Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probabilit…

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Prof Frank Close (Professor Emeritus of Physics, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Oxford University)
Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamenta…

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Jonathan Ellis
Letters

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Very Short Introductions > Letters are one of the oldest and most versatile forms of writing. Unlike other genres of writing, they consistently resist categorisation. A letter can be as short as a sent…

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Thomas Pink
Free Will

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some trivial, and others so consequential that they may change the course of our li…

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Mark Maslin
Climate

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThe issues around 'climate' range across all aspects of the global system, including the different components that have controlled climate on Earth th…

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Simon Glendinning
Derrida

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringJacques Derrida had a major influence on 20th century philosophy and the idea of postmodernism. Challenging some of the deepest assumptions of the Wes…

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Michael Freeden
Ideology

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ideology has been one of the most controversial terms in our political vocabulary, exciting both denigration and inspiration. In this Very Short Intr…

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Judith Hawley
Satire

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringSatire is essentially a form of criticism that points out faults and failings in others. Its targets might be lapses in taste, moral failings, or polit…

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Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi
Classical Mechanics

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringClassical mechanics is the science of how objects move: where they are, where they are going, and how they are being moved. The laws of classical mech…

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Yelena Baraz
Cicero

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Cicero was one of the leading figures at a time of great historical significance, the late Roman republic. This book presents a concise and accessible account of his life and work and shows connections be…

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Jon Balserak
Calvinism

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringSince its beginnings during the Protestant Reformation, Calvinism has spread throughout Europe and America and eventually to Africa and Asia. Today it…

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Nils Ole Oermann
Business Ethics

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringEver since the global financial crisis of 2008, the global economic order and many of its major corporate players have come in for heavy criticism. Fro…

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John Baker
Aerospace Engineering

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAerospace engineering is the engineering of flight, and involves the design and operation of planes and space vehicles. It draws on the expertise of va…

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Edith Hall
Sophocles

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian.Placing hi…

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James Binney
Entropy

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Entropy is an idea that is no less important than energy, but it is not widely understood. We are surrounded by free energy: what we value is energy that's not too polluted with entropy. This book explain…

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Laura Tunbridge
Chamber Music

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringPlaying together is the beating heart of chamber music. Despite great diversity, there are values common across centuries and instrumentation. First, …

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