Oxford Very Short Introductions (VSI)

• Author(s): Jon Balserak • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Christianity - CalvinistJohn Calvin was born only a few years before the Christian church in Europe was plunged into the c...

• Author(s): Russell G. Foster • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Life Sciences - Anatomy & PhysiologyThe earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From ...

• Author(s): Peter Sarris • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceAfter surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the...

• Author(s): Tony Wright • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 21st CenturyAt a time when politics in Britain is experiencing unprecedented turmoil, this Ve...

• Author(s): Ben Hutchinson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureComparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately l...

• 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): Ian Taylor • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - AfricanAfrica is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of ...

• Author(s): Sebastian G. B. Amyes • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: Life Sciences - MicrobiologybVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Bacteria form ...

• Author(s): Trevor Bryce • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe history of Ancient Babylonia in ancient Mesopotamia is epic. After playing host to three great empires, the Hammurabi...

• Author(s): Mary Joan Winn Leith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralAbout the Book The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered wom...

• Author(s): Amrita Narlikar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeThe World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of i...

• Author(s): Fergus Kerr • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: ReligiousThomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Ch...

• Author(s): Darrel Ince • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: HistoryAbout the Book There is a companion web site asssociated with the book (). It contains chapter s...

• Author(s): Andrew Davies • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Project ManagementAbout the Book What is a project? How are projects organized to deal with a complex, rapidly changing, and ...

• Author(s): Rorabaugh • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAmericans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of p...

• Author(s): Allen C. Guelzo • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in Ameri...

• Author(s): Eberhard O. Voit • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralSystems biology came about as growing numbers of engineers and scientists from ot...

• Author(s): Brad Inwood • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyStoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that ...

• Author(s): Stanley Wells • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ShakespeareTragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if ...

• Author(s): Mike Cronin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sports and Physical Fitness • BISAC: Social HistorySport is one of the largest industries in the world and the global reach of major sporting events is enor...

• Author(s): Stephen.J .Blundell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Superconductors & SuperconductivityReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. Y...

• Author(s): Guido Caldarelli | Michele Catanzaro • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Mathematics and Statistics • BISAC: System TheoryAbout the Book Networks are involved in many aspects of everyday life, from food w...

• Author(s): Adam Sharr • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)About the Book Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become famil...

• Author(s): Mark Evan Bonds • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Genres & Styles - GeneralAbout the Book Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music ...

• Author(s): Charlotte Gordon • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writin...

• Author(s): Christian Mcmillen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: HistoryThe 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destro...

• Author(s): Michael J. Seth • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - KoreaHaving spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest f...

• Author(s): Shepherd-Barr • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapte...

• Author(s): Peter Molnar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyStudents of Earth Sciences and the physical sciences, as well as interested general and popular ...

• Author(s): Colin Matthew Christopher Harvie | Colin Matthew • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFirst published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated His...

• Author(s): David Cottington • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Movements - ModernismAs public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will engage general re...

• Author(s): Graziosi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalAbout the Book Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely conside...

• Author(s): Nicholas Boyle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GermanAbout the Book German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profou...

• Author(s): John G. Stackhouse Jr. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Christianity - DenominationsAbout the Book Evangelicalism has rapidly become one of the most significant religio...

• Author(s): J. Allan Hobson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: DreamsWhat is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacin...

• Author(s): James A. Harris • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernDavid Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the gr...

• Author(s): David Cabrelli | Peter; Haworth | Ken • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In today's society,...

• Author(s): Arnull • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: InternationalThe European Union is rarely out of the news and, as it deals with the consequences of the Brexit vote and struggles to...

• Author(s): Matthews • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyModern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and sim...

• Author(s): Richard Tuck • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeneralThomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimist...

• Author(s): David Muir Wood • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Civil - GeneralAbout the Book Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects mode...

• Author(s): Carl Abbott • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAbout the Book City planning is a practice and a professio...

• Author(s): David A. Gerber • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralAn updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a h...

• Author(s): Walter A. Friedman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "busin...

• Author(s): Julian Stallabrass • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryContemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing glo...

• Author(s): Christopher J. Berry • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economics - TheoryIn 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being call...

• Author(s): Laura Marcus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ReferenceAutobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, indi...

• Author(s): Philip Dwyer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistorybVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature....

• Author(s): Jolyon Mitchell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of...

• Author(s): Hawley, Katherine • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Social PsychologyTrust is indispensable to our everyday lives, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we c...

• Author(s): Cook Michael • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Islam - Koran & Sacred WritingsThe Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a reli...

• Author(s): Strevens • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: TimeWhy do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into...

• Author(s): Michael O'Shea • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: GeneralThe Brain: A Very Short Introduction provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and fi...

• Author(s): Chris Shilling • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size...

• Author(s): John Riches • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Bible is one of the world's most read and m...

• Author(s): Hosking, Geoffrey • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Russia - GeneralRussia's sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh...

• Author(s): Tweed, Thomas A. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: HistoryReligion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act...

• Author(s): Jefferson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Poverty & HomelessnessNo one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, we find ourselves in a situation whe...

• Author(s): Okasha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsOver the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of...

• Author(s): Rogers • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionPerception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psych...