The Future: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback

In this Very Short Introduction, Martin Price addresses the role of mountains in global ecosystems and within human culture. Considering the global...

What is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? In this Very Short Introduction Jonathan Herring provides an insig...

From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies...

Gordon Campbell embraces the beauty and practicality of gardens in their many forms, in history and culture across the world. He also look at varia...

The Arctic is a complex space. This book considers the competing elements surrounding the region, from geopolitical claims on its rich resources to...

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from clas...

Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approa...

The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the...

What is a university? How have universities and colleges evolved over the centuries? What will be the impact of digital- and distance-learning; of ...

DescriptionSuperconductivity--the flow of electric current without resistance in certain materials as temperatures near absolute zero--is one of th...

DescriptionSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes...

What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and t...

The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work --...

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

What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the wo...

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernit...

DescriptionFrom the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish ...

Organization happens in the act of working with others to accomplish a desired future state. It can happen through intentionally designed activity,...

In Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling and lively introduction to the fundamental pa...

Molecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field i...

Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolutio...

When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concep...

Fluid mechanics is an important branch of physics concerned with the way in which fluids, such as liquids and gases, behave when in motion and at r...

CBT is a form of psychological therapy with a range of approaches that share a common underpinning model of the importance of cognition and behavio...

Ecology is the science of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment to form communities and ecosystems. This book explains ...

Reducere. Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in...

DescriptionWhat is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, play...

Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. In this Very Short Introduction, Bill McGuire explores the many potential catastroph...

In the wake of the Eurozone crisis and Brexit the European Union faces difficult questions about its future. In this debate, the law has a central ...

If now in decline since the tumultuous events of 1989, communism was without doubt the great political movement of the twentieth century--at its pe...

"For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." -Hebrews 13: 14 At the very heart of God's plan for the world stands an e...