ISBN: 9780190496647 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2020
Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended...
ISBN: 9780199731503 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2012
Borders: A Very Short Introduction offers insights into the form and function of historical and contemporary political and social boundaries. The authors show how and why borders have been, are...
ISBN: 9780195398915 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2014
A lucid and concise introduction to the philosophical tenets of Confucianism
ISBN: 9780199738700 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2010
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such...
ISBN: 9780195182507 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2005
An array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups.
ISBN: 9780195374636 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2008
The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as"the best non-fiction book so far this year"by...
ISBN: 9780190900052 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2019
Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the...
ISBN: 9780195373455 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2008
On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are...
ISBN: 9780195395020 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2011
This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of...
ISBN: 9780199858613 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2013
This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language, presenting a succinct account of the most important aspects - both "micro" and "macro" - of sociolinguistics,...
ISBN: 9780190610227 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2018
Decadence: A Very Short Introduction provides an elegant overview of the culture of decadence - defined as the artistic expression of a conflicted sense of modernity - aby tracing its origin in...
ISBN: 9780190222703 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 192 Rok wydania: 2015
The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind," to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki...
ISBN: 9780199766239 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2012
In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience. He focuses on the transatlantic and a transcontinental...
ISBN: 9780195305050 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2008
A compact and informative introduction to the Old Testament, written żeby a leading authority on the Bible. It provides an overview of one of the pillars of Western religion and culture, whose...
ISBN: 9780197513668 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2020
More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout...
ISBN: 9780199943548 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2016
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system...
ISBN: 9780195061673 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 128 Rok wydania: 1990
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in...
ISBN: 9780199340057 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2014
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's...
ISBN: 9780199385904 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2017
A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.
ISBN: 9780190225063 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2015
Between 1760 and 1800, the people of the United States created a new nation, based on the idea that all people have the right to govern themselves. This Very Short Introduction recreates the...