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Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
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Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Every day we talk about the aesthetics of a piece of art or design. More than a simple response, aesthetics is a philosophy in which perceptions, feelings, and emotions combine to form the whole nature of experience. Through clear text and fitting illustrations, Introducing Aesthetics provides a captiva ...Show more
Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin, Judy Groves
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"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy and medieval scholasticism. For fifteen centuries, ...Show more
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil
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Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships. "Introducing Capitalism" tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and st ...Show more
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher
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'Lucid, witty and exact.' New Statesman. Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a 'universal grammar', a theory of principles common to all languages. Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children lear ...Show more
Introducing Consciousness: A Graphic Guide by David Papineau, Howard Selina
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"Introducing Consciousness" provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and ...Show more
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar
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Covering the ground from Antonio Gramsci to Raymond Williams, postcolonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, feminism to queer theory, technoculture and the media to globalization, Introducing Cultural Studies serves as an insightful guide to the essential concepts of this fascinating area of study ...Show more
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide by Jonathan Miller
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Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid, riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theorie ...Show more
Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide by David Orrell
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Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that really makes the world go round. Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as 'the science of scarcity' but these days economics is everywhere, and it's never been more popular - as bestselling books such as Freakanomics attes ...Show more
Introducing Ethics - A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt
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Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE | Series: Introducing... Ser. | Reading Level: very good
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disas ...Show more
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology: A Graphic Guide by Dylan Evans; Oscar Zarate
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Drawing on the insights of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology, as well as data from anthropology, primatology, and archaeology, evolutionary psychologists are beginning to piece together the first truly scientific account of human nature. Introducing Evolutionary Psychology is the perfect int ...Show more
Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide by Oscar Zarate, Richard Appignanesi
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This is Richard Appignanesi's erudite investigation of Existentialism, the philosophical and cultural movement that prioritizes individual experience. Richard Appignanesi is a novelist, editor, publisher, and research fellow at King's College London.
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide by Cathia Jenainati, Judy Groves
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The term "feminism" came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes back much further. Introducing Feminism surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the seventeenth century to the present day. "Read ...Show more