Oxford Very Short Introductions (VSI)

• Author(s): Christian Reus-Smit • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyInternational relations affects everyone's lives: their security, economic ...

• Author(s): Michelle Baddeley • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Economics - GeneralTraditionally, economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans a...

• Author(s): Michael Hoskin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: HistoryAbout the Book This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to th...

• Author(s): Ashley Jackson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the w...

• Author(s): Gribbin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyAbout the Book In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understand...

• Author(s): Andrew Bowie • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralGerman philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. This Very Short Introduction discu...

• Author(s): Freeden • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIdeology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both r...

• Author(s): Katherine Blundell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsAbout the Book Black holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious ...

• Author(s): Michael Allingham • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economics - TheoryWe make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, ...

• Author(s): Helen Morales • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyFrom Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exer...

• Author(s): Evans, Jonathan St B. T. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionOur extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside f...

• Author(s): Kim Knott • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralHinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people o...

• Author(s): Evans, Dylan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: EmotionsWas love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery ...

• Author(s): Klaus Dodds • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: GeopoliticsGeopolitics is a slippery term. From great power politics and speculation about resource scrambles, to everyd...

• Author(s): Graham Priest • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: LogicLogic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In ...

• Author(s): Jens Zimmermann • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: EpistemologyHermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to ou...

• Author(s): Robert J.C. Young • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - GeneralPostcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuin...

• Author(s): Simon Horobin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. B...

• Author(s): Eleanor Nesbitt • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: SikhismThis Very Short Introduction describes the key threads in the history of Sikhism, from the late 15th century to the present day....

• Author(s): Eve C. Johnstone • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Psychopathology - SchizophreniaSchizophrenia is the archetypal form of madness. Schizophrenia is a common disorder and has a devastating effect on suffer...

• Author(s): Christopher Butler • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Movements - ModernismModernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubi...

• Author(s): Mark Katz • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralMark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instr...

• Author(s): Tyler Amanda • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: ConstitutionalLegal scholar Amanda L. Tyler discusses the history and future of habeas corpus in America and around the world....

• Author(s): Simon Critchley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernSimon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a...

• Author(s): Jonathan K. Foster • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionMemories are an integral part of being human. They haunt us, we cherish them,...

• Author(s): Christopher Butler • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernPostmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade....

• Author(s): Pippa Virdee • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralWhat is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest par...

• Author(s): Tristram D. Wyatt • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyHow animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new m...

• Author(s): Peter Atkins • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Mechanics - ThermodynamicsAmong the many laws of science, there are four laws that direct and constrain everything that happ...

• Author(s): Jonathan F. S. Post • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareNot for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have ...

• Author(s): Mike Goldsmith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: Acoustics & SoundThis Very Short Introduction explores the science of sound and its nature, hearing and harmony. Considering sou...

• Author(s): Pink • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Free Will & DeterminismDo we really make our own decisions? Or are we compelled to act by factors beyond our control? This introduction is an investigation of on...

• Author(s): Robert Jones • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Marketing - GeneralBranding is possibly the most powerful commercial and cultural force on the planet. Iconic names such as Co...

• Author(s): Smith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Mathematics and Statistics • BISAC: Chaotic Behavior in SystemsChaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject ...

• Author(s): Peter Singer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kin...

• Author(s): James Fulcher • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economics - GeneralWhat is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word "capitalism" is one that is...

• Author(s): Alex Prichard • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - AnarchismIf you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is ...

• Author(s): Steve Bruce • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralDrawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes ...

• Author(s): Andrew Scull • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralMadness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are univ...

• Author(s): Anthony Stevens • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: HistoryThis is the most lucid and timely introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung available to date. Though h...

• Author(s): Miri Rubin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduct...

• Author(s): S. A. Smith | S.A. Smith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThis Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Ru...

• Author(s): William H. Brock • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Chemistry - GeneralIn this Very Short Introduction, William H Brock traces the unique appeal of this fundamental science throughout hi...

• Author(s): Chris Gosden • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ReferencePrehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Austra...

• Author(s): Charles Townshend • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: TerrorismIs one person's terrorist another's freedom fighter? Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'War on ...

• Author(s): Steven W. Lockley | Russell G. Foster • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga • BISAC: SleepWhy do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when w...

• Author(s): Michael J. Benton • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionThere are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This...

• Author(s): David Bender • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - NutritionAbout the Book Nutrition is a topic of wide interest and importance. In spite of growing und...

• Author(s): Paul Westhead And Mike Wright • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: EntrepreneurshipThere has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in ...

• Author(s): Julian V. Roberts • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralGeneral readers interested in the topic, as well as all students of law.

• Author(s): Paul Bahn • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ArchaeologyThis entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, ...

• Author(s): Cohen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Judaism - GeneralIn the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram--Abraham, a father of many nations. With this name and...

• Author(s): Daniel Pick • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisSince its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the m...

• Author(s): Nicholas Cook • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: GeneralVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music--traditiona...

• Author(s): Coulmas, Florian • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Social PsychologyIdentity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts....

• Author(s): Nick Middleton • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Ecosystems & Habitats - RiversRivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be...

• Author(s): Charles L. Zelden • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Judicial PowerAt some point, everyone living in the United States has some type of interaction with the American judicial...

• Author(s): David Cottington • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyFor over a hundred years, the idea of the "avant-garde" has been perhaps the most important and inf...

• Author(s): Ali Rattansi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: DiscriminationThere is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular f...

• Author(s): Jane Caplan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GermanyAny consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime whi...