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Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell
16.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Rene Descartes had a short working life, and his output was small, yet he made significant contributions to philosophy and science. This book shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his ...Show more
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction by Manfred Steger
9.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short ...Show more
Locke by John Dunn
24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but, its message has been ...Show more
Nuclear Weapons (A Very Short Introduction) by Joseph M. Siracusa
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Category: Politics | 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
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by William Doyle
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: good
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work leads the reader to the realization that we are living with developments of the French Revolution. It looks at how the ancient regime became ancient, as well as examines cases in which achievement failed to match ambition ...Show more
The Russian Revolution : a Very Short Introduction by S.A. Smith
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. This very short introduction examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole - on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, and youth.
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