Classics: A Very Short Introduction

About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology,...

Humour is a universal feature of human life. It has been discovered in every known human culture, and thinkers have discussed it for over two thous...

Astrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. Astrobiologists seek to understand the origin an...

The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In...

Leading management scholar, John Hendry provides a lively introduction to the nature and practice of management. Tracing its development over the l...

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at o...

The Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in...

With the development of a variety of exciting new areas of research involving computational chemistry, nano- and smart materials, and applications ...

From around 900 to 400 BC, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their archaeological record is ...

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a...

Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduc...

Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and so...

Reducere. Benjamin Tallmadge narrates his time spent as a military officer during the American Revolutionary War, detailing his roles as both commander and i...

DescriptionTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be ...

Reducere. Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.New movie...