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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
This introduction unravels the mysteries of the concept of postmodernism, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key ideas are explored and shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture. Paper ...Show more
Poststructuralism (Oxford Very Short Introduction Series) by Catherine Belsey
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this "Very Short Introduction" traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists ...Show more
Poverty by Philip N. Jefferson
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, we find ourselves in a situation where millions of people worldwide live in poverty. Indeed, according to the World Bank in 2010, 1.2 billion people lived below the extreme poverty line with an income of US $1.25 or less a day ...Show more
Privacy: A Very Short Introduction by Raymond Wacks
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have signif ...Show more
Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey o ...Show more
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Butler
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Category: Psychology | Series: Very Short Introductions
Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and emotions, advertising and criminality. People readily behave as amateur psychologists, offering explanations for what people think, feel, and do. But what ex ...Show more
Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Burns
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Category: Psychology | Series: Very Short Introductions
Psychotherapy and counselling are now widely available to help people overcome emotional and psychological difficulties in their lives. They involve spending time with a professional in an emotionally safe and structured relationship to explore and express the issues that cause distress and difficulty, ...Show more
Quantum Theory by J.C. Polkinghorne
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain u ...Show more
Racism by Ali Rattansi
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly e ...Show more
Radioactivity: A Very Short Introduction by Claudio Tuniz
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
You cannot hide from radioactivity. Even the book you are holding is slightly radioactive, but there are more serious risks. Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature. It is a process that has been harnessed to provide wide and impo ...Show more
Relativity (A Very Short Introduction) by Stannard
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
100 years ago, Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics. Our comforting Newtonian ideas of space and time were replaced by bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: if you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier; travel fast enough and you could w ...Show more
Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Toye
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the 'art of persuasion', it is clear that we are all forced to engage with it at some level, if only because we are constantly exposed to the rhetor ...Show more