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Llewelyn Morgan
Ovid: A Very Short Introduction

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"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably a…

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Roger Scruton
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

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Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. I…

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Stephen Gaukroger, Knox Peden
French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

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French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epist…

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Graham Priest
Logic: A Very Short Introduction

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Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception i…

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Jonathan Ellis
Letters

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Very Short Introductions > Letters are one of the oldest and most versatile forms of writing. Unlike other genres of writing, they consistently resist categorisation. A letter can be as short as a sent…

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Penelope Wilson
Hieroglyphs

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThe people of Ancient Egypt left behind many monuments and objects, covered in the writing now known as Egyptian hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were far mor…

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Atul Kohli
Politics

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringPolitics is ubiquitous and can be understood as a struggle for power. Power is not only an important end in itself, but those who rule influence the di…

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Thomas Pink
Free Will

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some trivial, and others so consequential that they may change the course of our li…

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Peter Boettke, Scott King
Hayek

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringFriedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers in economics, political philosophy, and social theory. His …

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Dorota Dutsch
Ancient Women Philosophers

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringFrom the world's earliest named author, Enheduana of Ur, to the mathematician-mystic Hypatia of Alexandria, women across the ancient world thought deep…

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Jon Balserak
Calvinism

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringSince its beginnings during the Protestant Reformation, Calvinism has spread throughout Europe and America and eventually to Africa and Asia. Today it…

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Mark Maslin
Climate

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThe issues around 'climate' range across all aspects of the global system, including the different components that have controlled climate on Earth th…

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Judith Hawley
Satire

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringSatire is essentially a form of criticism that points out faults and failings in others. Its targets might be lapses in taste, moral failings, or polit…

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Michael Freeden
Ideology

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ideology has been one of the most controversial terms in our political vocabulary, exciting both denigration and inspiration. In this Very Short Intr…

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Nils Ole Oermann
Business Ethics

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringEver since the global financial crisis of 2008, the global economic order and many of its major corporate players have come in for heavy criticism. Fro…

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Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi
Classical Mechanics

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringClassical mechanics is the science of how objects move: where they are, where they are going, and how they are being moved. The laws of classical mech…

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Norman Solomon
Judaism

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring How has Judaism changed since the days of the Bible? What sects and divisions does it have, and how does it respond to the challenges of modernity? Ho…

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John Baker
Aerospace Engineering

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAerospace engineering is the engineering of flight, and involves the design and operation of planes and space vehicles. It draws on the expertise of va…

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Simon Glendinning
Derrida

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringJacques Derrida had a major influence on 20th century philosophy and the idea of postmodernism. Challenging some of the deepest assumptions of the Wes…

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James Binney
Entropy

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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Until the middle of the nineteenth century entropy and energy were confused with one another. The intellectual fog slowly cleared and now these words…

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