Michael OShea - The Brain: A Very Short Introduction

The Brain: A Very Short Introduction

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ANARCHISM Colin Ward

ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas

ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom

THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair

ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia

ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn

ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne

ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes

ART HISTORY Dana Arnold

ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland

THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin

ATHEISM Julian Baggini

AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick

BARTHES Jonathan Culler

THE BIBLE John Riches

THE BRAIN Michael OShea

BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright

BUDDHA Michael Carrithers

BUDDHISM Damien Keown

BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown

CAPITALISM James Fulcher

THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe

CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham

CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson

CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead

CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson

CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard

THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon

CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley

COSMOLOGY Peter Coles

THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman

CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and Sean Murphy

DADA AND SURREALISM David Hopkins

DARWIN Jonathan Howard

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim

DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick

DESCARTES Tom Sorell

DESIGN John Heskett

DINOSAURS David Norman

DREAMING J. Allan Hobson

DRUGS Leslie Iversen

THE EARTH Martin Redfern

EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Paul Langford

THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball

EMOTION Dylan Evans

EMPIRE Stephen Howe

ENGELS Terrell Carver

ETHICS Simon Blackburn

THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder

EVOLUTION Brian and Deborah Charlesworth

FASCISM Kevin Passmore

FEMINISM Margaret Walters

FOSSILS Keith Thomson

FOUCAULT Gary Gutting

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION William Doyle

FREE WILL Thomas Pink

Freud Anthony Storr

Galileo Stillman Drake

GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh

GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger

GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin

HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson

HEGEL Peter Singer

HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood

HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson

HINDUISM Kim Knott

HISTORY John H. Arnold

HOBBES Richard Tuck

HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood

HUME A. J. Ayer

IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton

INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary

ISLAM Malise Ruthven

JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves

JUDAISM Norman Solomon

JUNG Anthony Stevens

KAFKA Ritchie Robertson

KANT Roger Scruton

KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner

THE KORAN Michael Cook

LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews

LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler

LOCKE John Dunn

LOGIC Graham Priest

MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner

THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips

MARX Peter Singer

MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers

MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope

MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths

MODERN ART David Cottington

MODERN IRELAND Senia Paeta

MOLECULES Philip Ball

MUSIC Nicholas Cook

MYTH Robert A. Segal

NATIONALISM Steven Grosby

NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew

NORTHERN IRELAND Marc Mulholland

PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close

PAUL E. P. Sanders

PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Samir Okasha

PLATO Julia Annas

POLITICS Kenneth Minogue

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller

POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young

POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler

POSTSTRUCTURALISM Catherine Belsey

PREHISTORY Chris Gosden

PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Catherine Osborne

PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and Freda McManus

QUANTUM THEORY John Polkinghorne

RENAISSANCE ART Geraldine A. Johnson

ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway

ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler

RUSSELL A. C. Grayling

RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION S. A. Smith

SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone

SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway

SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer

SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY John Monaghan and Peter Just

SOCIALISM Michael Newman

SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce

SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Helen Graham

SPINOZA Roger Scruton

STUART BRITAIN John Morrill

TERRORISM Charles Townshend

THEOLOGY David F. Ford

THE HISTORY OF TIME Leofranc Holford-Strevens

TRAGEDY Adrian Poole

THE TUDORS John Guy

TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan

THE VIKINGS Julian D. Richards

WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling

WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar

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AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and Richard Rathbone

ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman

CHAOS Leonard Smith

CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy

CONTEMPORARY ART Julian Stallabrass

DERRIDA Simon Glendinning

ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta

GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire

EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn

THE FIRST WORLD WAR Michael Howard

FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven

HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson

JAZZ Brian Morton

MANDELA Tom Lodge

PERCEPTION Richard Gregory

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Raymond Wacks

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot

PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards

PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns

RACISM Ali Rattansi

THE RAJ Denis Judd

THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton

ROMAN EMPIRE Christopher Kelly

ROMANTICISM Duncan Wu

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A Very Short Introduction

Michael OShea

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