ISBN: 9780199922680 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2014
A concise history of slavery in America, including the daily life of American slaves, the laws that sought to legitimize white supremacy, the anti-slavery movement, and the abolition of slavery
ISBN: 9780190622435 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2021
Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World aby European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of...
ISBN: 9780190645021 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2020
The Maya forged the greatest society in the history of the ancient Americas, and one of the great societies in human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular...
ISBN: 9780190064679 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2020
Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion shapes how they enter the world and how they leave it...
ISBN: 9780190685072 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 144 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780195181333 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2005
1001 Legal Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the most difficult and arcane vocabulary any American has to deal with--that of the law. This comprehensive-- but never...
ISBN: 9780190692674 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2017
Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society,...
ISBN: 9780199735129 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2013
What does Tibetan Buddhism teach? Just what is the position of the Dalai Lama, and how will his succession be assured? This Very Short Introduction offers a brief account responding to these...
ISBN: 9780195014761 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 216 Rok wydania: 1971
An ancient Chinese treatise on war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate form of attack, and accurate intelligence
ISBN: 9780190944346 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2020
City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments...
ISBN: 9780190640156 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2018
The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction seeks to answer fundamental questions of enduring interest, such as "What is musicality?" and "How does music move us?" In doing...
ISBN: 9780199340491 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 136 Rok wydania: 2016
This succinct and insightful account of decolonization analyses the tumultuous events that caused the shift from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War...
ISBN: 9780195377996 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2013
This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-shaking changes that marked this era include such fundamental inventions as the wheel and the plow...
ISBN: 9780190234874 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 136 Rok wydania: 2017
A timely overview of populism, one of the most contested concepts in political journalism and the social sciences.
ISBN: 9780195389142 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 184 Rok wydania: 2012
This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and...
ISBN: 9780190692674 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2017
Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society,...
ISBN: 9780199918119 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2014
Dependence on computers has had a transformative effect on human society. Cybernetics is now woven into the core functions of virtually every basic institution, including our oldest ones. War is...
ISBN: 9780190946463 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2020
China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's second biggest economy, the largest...
ISBN: 9780199338993 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2014
The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know takes readers on a tour of the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. The volume includes information on gun control pertaining to U.S....
ISBN: 9780195396331 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 2010
Essential guide, bringing a poorly understood term into focus.