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Agriculture by Paul Brassley; Richard Soffe
$16.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without it we would starve. Yet how many of us understand what is happening in the fields that we see as we drive through the c ...Show more
Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction by Erle C. Ellis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycles of the weather, widespread pollution, radioactive fallout, plastic accumulation, species invasions, t ...Show more
Anxiety by Daniel Freeman; Jason Freeman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Health | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Are we born with our fears or do we learn them? Why do our fears persist? What purpose does anxiety serve? How common are anxiety disorders, and which treatments are most effective? What's happening in our brain when we feel fear? This Very Short Introduction draws on the best scientific research to off ...Show more
Autism by Uta Frith
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Category: Health | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and how does it relate to Asperger syndrome? Everyone has heard of autism, but the disorder itself is little understood. It has captured the public ima ...Show more
Beauty - A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
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. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, ...Show more
Free Will by Thomas Pink
$21.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of choices: some trivial, others so consequential that they change the course of one's life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free, or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we c ...Show more
Mathematics: a Very Short Introduction by GOWERS TIMOTHY
$24.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and readers of this book will emerge with a clearer understandingof paradox ...Show more
Oceans: a Very Short Introduction by Dorrik Stow
$17.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in the oceans over 3.5 billion years ago and remained there for the great majority of that time. Today the ...Show more
Schopenhauer by Christopher Janaway
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer' ...Show more
The Apocryphal Gospels by Paul Foster
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Category: Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels--exploring their origins, their discovery, and discussing how the various texts have been interpreted both within and outside the Church. Looking at texts ranging from the Gospels from Nag Hammadi to t ...Show more
The Beats by David Sterritt
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Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time ...Show more
The History of Astronomy by Michael Hoskin
$16.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babylon and Egypt, and after two millennia the arithmetical astronomy of the Babylonians merged with the Gree ...Show more