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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
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
Nothing: A very short introduction by Frank Close
$17.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very lat ...Show more
Nuclear Weapons (A Very Short Introduction) by Joseph M. Siracusa
$14.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly ...Show more
Quantum Theory by J.C. Polkinghorne
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain u ...Show more
Relativity (A Very Short Introduction) by Stannard
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
100 years ago, Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics. Our comforting Newtonian ideas of space and time were replaced by bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: if you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier; travel fast enough and you could w ...Show more
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY by Blundell Stephen
$17.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Superconductivity--the flow of electric current without resistance in certain materials as temperatures near absolute zero--is one of the greatest discoveries of 20th century physics, but it can seem impenetrable to those who lack a solid scientific background. Outlining the fascinating history of how s ...Show more
Science and Religion (A Very Short Introduction) by DIXON THOMAS
$15.41 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these ...Show more