The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide.
The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology.
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ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Annas
THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE Blair
ANIMAL RIGHTS DeGrazia
ARCHAEOLOGY Bahn
ARCHITECTURE Ballantyne
ARISTOTLE Barnes
ART HISTORY Arnold
ART THEORY Freeland
THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Hoskin
ATHEISM Baggini
AUGUSTINE Chadwick
BARTHES Culler
THE BIBLE Riches
BRITISH POLITICS Wright
BUDDHA Carrithers
BUDDHISM Keown
THE CELTS Cunliffe
CHOICE THEORY Allingham
CLASSICS Beard and Henderson
CLAUSEWITZ Howard
THE COLD WAR McMahon
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Critchley
COSMOLOGY Coles
CRYPTOGRAPHY Piper and Sean Murphy
DARWIN Howard
DEMOCRACY Crick
DESCARTES Sorell
DRUGS Iversen
THE EARTH Redfern
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Langford
EMOTION Evans
EMPIRE Howe
ENGELS Carver
ETHICS Blackburn
THE EUROPEAN UNION Pinder
EVOLUTION and Deborah Charlesworth
FASCISM Passmore
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Doyle
FREUD Storr
GALILEO Drake
GANDHI Parekh
GLOBALIZATION Steger
HEGEL Singer
HEIDEGGER Inwood
HINDUISM Knott
HISTORY H. Arnold
HOBBES Tuck
HUME A. J. Ayer
IDEOLOGY Freeden
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Hamilton
INTELLIGENCE J. Deary
ISLAM Ruthven
JUDAISM Solomon
JUNG Stevens
KANT Scruton
KIERKEGAARD Gardiner
THE KORAN Cook
LINGUISTICS Matthews
LITERARY THEORY Culler
LOCKE Dunn
LOGIC Priest
MACHIAVELLI Skinner
MARX Singer
MATHEMATICS Gowers
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths
MODERN IRELAND Paeta
MUSIC Cook
NIETZSCHE Tanner
NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew
NORTHERN IRELAND Mulholland
PAUL E. P. Sanders
PHILOSOPHY Craig
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Okasha
PLATO Annas
POLITICS Minogue
POSTCOLONIALISM Young
POSTMODERNISM Butler
POSTSTRUCTURALISM Belsey
PREHISTORY Gosden
PSYCHOLOGY Butler and Freda McManus
QUANTUM THEORY Polkinghorne
ROMAN BRITAIN Salway
ROUSSEAU Wokler
RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
RUSSIAN LITERATURE Kelly
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION S. A. Smith
SCHIZOPHRENIA Frith and Eve Johnstone
SCHOPENHAUER Janaway
SHAKESPEARE Greer
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Monaghan and Peter Just
SOCIOLOGY Bruce
SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor
SPINOZA Scruton
STUART BRITAIN Morrill
TERRORISM Townshend
THEOLOGY F. Ford
THE TUDORS Guy
TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN O. Morgan
WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling
WORLD MUSIC Bohlman
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AFRICAN HISTORY Parker and Richard Rathbone
ANCIENT EGYPT Shaw
THE BRAIN OShea
BUDDHIST ETHICS Keown
CAPITALISM Fulcher
CHAOS Smith
CHRISTIAN ART Williamson
CHRISTIANITY Woodhead
CITIZENSHIP Bellamy
CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE Tavernor
CLONING Judith Klotzko
CONTEMPORARY ART Stallabrass
THE CRUSADES Tyerman
DADA AND SURREALISM Hopkins
DERRIDA Glendinning
DESIGN Heskett
DINOSAURS Norman
DREAMING J. Hobson
ECONOMICS Dasgupta
EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY Pinch
THE ELEMENTS Ball
THE END OF THE WORLD McGuire
EXISTENTIALISM Flynn
THE FIRST WORLD WAR Howard
FREE WILL Pink
FUNDAMENTALISM Ruthven
HABERMAS Finlayson
HIEROGLYPHS Wilson
HIROSHIMA B. R. Tomlinson
HUMAN EVOLUTION Wood
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Wilkinson
JAZZ Morton
MANDELA Lodge
MEDICAL ETHICS Hope
THE MIND Davies
MOLECULES Ball
MYTH Segal
NATIONALISM Grosby
PERCEPTION Gregory
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Copeland and Diane Proudfoot
PHOTOGRAPHY Edwards
THE PRESOCRATICS Osborne
THE RAJ Judd
THE RENAISSANCE Brotton
RENAISSANCE ART Johnson
SARTRE Howells
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Graham
TRAGEDY Poole
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Conway
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