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Autism by Uta Frith
$18.14 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and how does it relate to Asperger syndrome? Everyone has heard of autism, but the disorder itself is little understood. It has captured the public ima ...Show more
Catholicism (A Very Short Introduction) by Gerald O'Collins
$14.50 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church and the broader reality of Catholicism remain a vast and valuable presence into the third millennium of world history. What are the origins of the Catholic Church? How has Catholicism changed and adapted to such v ...Show more
Communism - A very short introduction by Leslie Holmes
$16.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: very good
The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted people to it? What is the future for communism? This Very ...Show more
Ethics: a Very Short Introduction by Simon Blackburn
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
Written by Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Think Short, lively, humorous, and accessible Unique combination of depth, rigor and sparkling prose Ethics is the area of philosophy which touches most on everyday life - its central theme is how we ought to live Discusses topics such as birth, ...Show more
Fashion (A Very Short Introduction) by Rebecca Arnold
$16.32 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and ...Show more
GALAXIES A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by John Gribbin
$15.41 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged.Our own galaxy, the Milky Wa ...Show more
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction by Bernard Wood
$15.41 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
This Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human evolution, it also covers the latest genetic evidence about regional variations in the modern human genom ...Show more
INNOVATION A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by Mark Dodgson; David Gann
$15.41 AUD
Category: Business | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed?Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150 years our world has hit an accelerated rate of transforma ...Show more
Judaism: A Very Short Introduction by Norman Solomon
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
Presents an introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. This book outlines the basics of practical Judaism - its festivals, prayers, and various sects. Modern concerns and debates of the Jewish people are also addressed, such as the impact of the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of I ...Show more
Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
Explains the basic concepts of Jungian psychology, and examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sychronicity', and the psychology of gender differences. This book also discusses the stages of life, Jung's theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, a ...Show more
Mandela by Elleke Boehmer
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
This book explores Nelson Mandela's personal development as well as his public activism, from his childhood as a member of the Thembu royal house through his emergence in the 1950s as a nationalist celebrity, his martyrdom in prison and, finally, his contemporary canonization as a transnational icon of ...Show more
Memory (A Very Short Introduction) by Jonathan K. Foster
$16.32 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Very Short Introductions
Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well sometimes and not others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated, by psychological techniques or even 'brain implants'? How doe ...Show more