Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback

Why do we need sleep? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? This Very Short Introduction addresses the biological and psychological...

What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know ...

This book explores the nature of scepticism, asking when it is legitimate, for example as the driver of new ideas, and when it is problematic. It a...

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? Edward Craig discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. He explores imp...

This Very Short Introduction provides both the believer and non-believer with a balanced survey of the central questions of theology. David Ford's ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual li...

Memories are an integral part of being human. They haunt us, we cherish them, and in our lives we collect more of them with each new experience. Wi...

Freemasonry is one of the oldest and most widespread voluntary organizations in the world. Over the course of three centuries men (and women) have ...

Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way we think about everything from education and intelligence, to relationships and ...

DescriptionVast, majestic, and often stunningly beautiful, glaciers lock up some 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an i...

In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this ...

Clinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative applicat...

DescriptionJohn Wanamaker famously observed that "half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." Indeed...

The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of ...

India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major relig...

John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An...

Descartes is perhaps best known for his statement, "Cogito, ergo sum, " the cornerstone of his metaphysics. But he did not intend the metaphysics t...

German philosophy stands at the center of modern thought. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American "analytic...

The schizophrenic patient presented to the public in sensational press reports and lurid films bears little resemblance to reality of the illness. ...

We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regu...

Reducere. The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with European...

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully -objective?- What, really, can be de...

Reducere. In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the cen...

'Note: This pocket book is available in the following languages: English, German, Dutch. This pocket guide is based on the PMBOK(R) Guide Sixth Edi...

Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Stewart demonstrates sy...

Reducere. Python is an easy to learn, yet very diverse and powerful programming language and that for the language of choice for many hackers. Learn to write...