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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Islamic law is one of the major legal systems in the world today, yet it is often misunderst...

Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation am...

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western domi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring From the simplest bacteria to humans, all living things are composed of cells of one type or ...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as t...

With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing in...

Very Short Introductions:Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Ber...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Marketing is pivotal in today's world. Used for determining and satisfying the needs of the c...

By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The ...

A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton. The Literary Agenda is a serie...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civi...

Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion sha...

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination ― mummies and pyramids, curses an...

How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced c...

The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aris...

Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century -- with it...

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonl...

Newly updated to incorporate recent additions to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins provides a fascinating exploration of ...

An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for t...

This book identifies and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, an...

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound i...

Internal security of India and disaster Management has been designed to help the aspirants have an in-depth understanding of the socio-political or...

In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary int...

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems. Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to th...

Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial...

The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources f...

Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of thin...

Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Bu...

Never have financial markets been subjected to a period of change as rapid and extensive as took place from the 1970s onwards. In the 1970s global ...

Systems biology came about as growing numbers of engineers and scientists from other fields created algorithms which supported the analysis of biol...

Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy? Is it possibl...

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, an...

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different r...

Forensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that ha...

Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a ...

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted wor...

Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whol...

Energy is vital for a good standard of living, and much of the world's population does not have enough. Affordable and adequate sources of power th...

Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction,...

Number theory is the branch of mathematics that is primarily concerned with the counting numbers. Of particular importance are the prime numbers, t...

Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an academic field that is often portrayed as confused and controv...

French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with politica...

The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomi...

Born of the desire to understand the workings of motions of the heavenly bodies, Trigonometry gave the ancient Greeks the ability to predict their ...

Our knowledge of our solar system has passed the point of no return. Increasingly, it seems possible that scientists will soon discover how life is...