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German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

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AFRICAN HISTORY

CHAOS Leonard Smith

John Parker and Richard Rathbone

CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham

AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES

CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson

AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel

CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

CLASSICS

Charles O. Jones

Mary Beard and John Henderson

ANARCHISM Colin Ward

CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw

Helen Morales

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas

CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard

ANCIENT WARFARE

THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon

Harry Sidebottom

CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore

ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman

CONTEMPORARY ART

THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair

Julian Stallabrass

ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller

Simon Critchley

ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn

COSMOLOGY Peter Coles

ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne

THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman

ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes

CRYPTOGRAPHY

ART HISTORY Dana Arnold

Fred Piper and Sean Murphy

ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland

DADA AND SURREALISM

THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

David Hopkins

Michael Hoskin

DARWIN Jonathan Howard

ATHEISM Julian Baggini

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim

AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick

DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick

BARTHES Jonathan Culler

DESCARTES Tom Sorell

BESTSELLERS John Sutherland

DESIGN John Heskett

THE BIBLE John Riches

DINOSAURS David Norman

THE BRAIN Michael OShea

DOCUMENTARY FILM

BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright

Patricia Aufderheide

BUDDHA Michael Carrithers

DREAMING J. Allan Hobson

BUDDHISM Damien Keown

DRUGS Leslie Iversen

BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown

THE EARTH Martin Redfern

CAPITALISM James Fulcher

ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta

THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe

EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Paul Langford

Paul Wilkinson

THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball

ISLAM Malise Ruthven

EMOTION Dylan Evans

JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves

EMPIRE Stephen Howe

JUDAISM Norman Solomon

ENGELS Terrell Carver

JUNG Anthony Stevens

ETHICS Simon Blackburn

KABBALAH Joseph Dan

THE EUROPEAN UNION

KAFKA Ritchie Robertson

John Pinder and Simon Usherwood

KANT Roger Scruton

EVOLUTION

KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner

Brian and Deborah Charlesworth

THE KORAN Michael Cook

EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn

LAW Raymond Wacks

FASCISM Kevin Passmore

LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews

FEMINISM Margaret Walters

LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

LOCKE John Dunn

Michael Howard

LOGIC Graham Priest

FOSSILS Keith Thomson

MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner

FOUCAULT Gary Gutting

THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

MARX Peter Singer

William Doyle

MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers

FREE WILL Thomas Pink

MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope

FREUD Anthony Storr

MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham

FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven

and Ralph A. Griffiths

GALAXIES John Gribbin

MODERN ART David Cottington

GALILEO Stillman Drake

MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter

GAME THEORY Ken Binmore

MODERN IRELAND Senia Paeta

GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh

MOLECULES Philip Ball

GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds

MUSIC Nicholas Cook

GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle

MYTH Robert A. Segal

GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire

NATIONALISM Steven Grosby

GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger

THE NEW TESTAMENT AS

GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin

LITERATURE Kyle Keefer

THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE

NEWTON Robert Iliffe

NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway

NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner

HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

HEGEL Peter Singer

Christopher Harvie and

HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood

H. C. G. Matthew

HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson

NORTHERN IRELAND

HINDUISM Kim Knott

Marc Mulholland

HISTORY John H. Arnold

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside

Joseph M. Siracusa

HOBBES Richard Tuck

PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close

HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood

PAUL E. P. Sanders

HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham

PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig

HUME A. J. Ayer

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden

Raymond Wacks

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary

Samir Okasha

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards

Khalid Koser

PLATO Julia Annas

POLITICS Kenneth Minogue

SCHIZOPHRENIA

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone

David Miller

SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway

POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young

SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer

POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler

SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt

POSTSTRUCTURALISM

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL

Catherine Belsey

ANTHROPOLOGY

PREHISTORY Chris Gosden

John Monaghan and Peter Just

PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY

SOCIALISM Michael Newman

Catherine Osborne

SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce

PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and

SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor

Freda McManus

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns

Helen Graham

THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion

SPINOZA Roger Scruton

QUANTUM THEORY

STUART BRITAIN John Morrill

John Polkinghorne

TERRORISM Charles Townshend

RACISM Ali Rattansi

THEOLOGY David F. Ford

THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton

THE HISTORY OF TIME

RENAISSANCE ART

Leofranc Holford-Strevens

Geraldine A. Johnson

TRAGEDY Adrian Poole

ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway

THE TUDORS John Guy

THE ROMAN EMPIRE

TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN

Christopher Kelly

Kenneth O. Morgan

ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler

THE VIKINGS Julian Richards

RUSSELL A. C. Grayling

WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly

WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

THE WORLD TRADE

S. A. Smith

ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar

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1066 George Garnett

MEMORY Jonathan Foster

EXPRESSIONISM

NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer

Katerina Reed-Tsocha

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

GEOGRAPHY John A.Matthews and

Thomas Dixon

David T. Herbert

SEXUALITY Vronique Mottier

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

THE MEANING OF LIFE

William Bynum

Terry Eagleton

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