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The World Trade Organization by Amrita Narlikar
$24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Very Short Introductions
The WTO has a deep and far reaching impact on people's everyday lives, and has generated debate, controversy and outrage. This "VSI" provides an explanation of the political, economic, and ethical controversies: what the WTO is, what it does, and whether it works.
Theatre: A Very Short Introduction by Marvin Carlson
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activi ...Show more
Thomas Aquinas - A Very Short Introduction by Fergus Kerr
$18.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and engaged in conflict. This Very Short Introduction look ...Show more
Thought: A Very Short Introduction by Tim Bayne
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
There is no denying that thinking comes naturally to human beings. But what are thoughts? How is thought realized in the brain? Does thinking occur in public or is it a purely private affair? Do young children and non-human animals think? Is human thought the same everywhere, or are there culturally spe ...Show more
Trust: A Very Short Introduction by Katherine Hawley
$21.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension: trustworthiness is a virtue, and well-placed trust benefi ...Show more
Utopianism : A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent
$20.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction explores these issues and examines utopianism and its his ...Show more
Viruses: A very short introduction by Dorothy H. Crawford
$15.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their int ...Show more
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors - arguably the defining personality - of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our noti ...Show more
Weather: A Very Short Introduction by Storm Dunlop
$18.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
From deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis. Although new techniques allow us to forecast the weather with increasing accuracy, most people do not realise the vast global movements and forces which result ...Show more
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Gaskill (Churchill College Cambridge Reader in Early Modern History University of East Anglia Churchill College Cambridge Churchill College Cambridge Churchill College Cambridge Churchill College Cambridge Churchill College Cambridge Churchill College, Cambridge)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all. Indeed, from childhood most of us develop some mental image of a witch--usually an old woman, mysterious and malignant. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? From Halloween superstitions to literary references such ...Show more
Wittgenstein (A Very Short Introduction) by A.C. Grayling
$29.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and im ...Show more
World Mythology : a Very Short Introduction by David A. Leeming
$26.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain univer ...Show more