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Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction by Karen Radner
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC. Since the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria in the mi ...Show more
Babylonia: a Very Short Introduction by Trevor Bryce
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The history of Ancient Babylonia in ancient Mesopotamia is epic. After playing host to three great empires, the Hammurabic and Kassite empires, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, it was conquered by the Persians. Entered triumphantly by Alexander the Great, it later provided the sett ...Show more
Byzantium: a Very Short Introduction by Peter Sarris
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
After surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousand years. In this Very Short Introduction Peter Sarris introduces the reader to the unique fusion of Roma ...Show more
Circadian Rhythms: a Very Short Introduction by Russell Foster; Leon Kreitzman
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Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity, and rainfall. However, these changes are regular, rhythmic and, therefore, predictable. Thus, the near 24 hour circadian rhythm is innate: a genetically prog ...Show more
Feminism by Margaret Walters
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one t ...Show more
Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Metaphysics is traditionally one of the four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is an area that continues to attract and fascinate many people, even though it is generally thought to be highly complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or rel ...Show more
Modern India by Craig Jeffrey (Contribution by)
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extentare people be ...Show more
Relativity (A Very Short Introduction) by Stannard
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Category: Science | 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
Schopenhauer by Christopher Janaway
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer' ...Show more
Southeast Asia: a Very Short Introduction by James R. Rush
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor-- ...Show more
Stoicism by Brad Inwood
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Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This ...Show more
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Thonemann
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube couldserve in the me ...Show more
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