The Koran: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Michael Cook

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

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's greatest yet most enigmatic and divisive philosophers. Michael Inwood explores the major themes ...

We make choices all the time--about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantl...

Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoun...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reason...

Exploring the role of socialism over the last two hundred years, Michael Newman explains its major theories, and the key challenges facing it today...

In this valuable introduction, Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give us a...

In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Land introduces all aspects of the eye and vision in both human and animals. He looks at the features of t...

Korea, long in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, is now the object of considerable interest. This book focuses on answering several hi...

Reducere. With his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Mi...

Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of ...

Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as mi...

Reducere. This book presents an introduction to one of the most important treaties ever written, the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I i...

Eminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance...

DescriptionWe live in a society which is increasingly interconnected, in which communication between individuals is mostly mediated via some electr...

Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is considered by many to have been one of the greatest writers on war. His study On War was described by the Americ...

Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for proble...

Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the publish...

James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the lit...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Sarah M. S. (Professor of History, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University) PearsallIllustr...

This book gives an overview of the main kinds of employment rights and labour laws found in many countries. It evaluates some of the assumptions un...

Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a politi...

Pippa Virdee considers the history of Pakistan, created as a new nation state in 1947, placing it in the context of the region's four-thousand-year...

DescriptionA pop-culture presentation of the Integral Approach from visionary genius Ken Wilber, designed as an easy introduction to his work. What...

Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at th...

Arbitration is a legal dispute resolution mechanism, alternative to courts. This book explains what arbitration is, how it works, what parties who ...

In this Very Short Introduction Bernard O'Donoghue explores the many different forms of writing which have been called 'poetry', from the Greeks to...

Drawing on the latest scientific research, from anthropology and psychology to neuroscience and artificial intelligence, Evans takes the reader on ...

John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. His ideas have had a central influence on many of areas of...

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas on population and political economy have had a profound influence on modern eco...

In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher Hall shows how material science combines physics, chemistry, and biology with engineering to understan...

Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field, this book offers a clear account of the contributions to philosophy made by one of Brit...

Drawing on examples from across the globe and throughout history, Andrew Kahn explores the key characteristics of the short story. He shows how its...

For many decades, we were only familiar with our own system of planets, the Solar System, orbiting our Sun. Now we know that it is just one among a...

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

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): David (Charles M. Weis Professor of English, Charles M. Weis Professor of English, Ohio Wesleyan U...

This book explores the extraordinarily diverse and beautiful world of insects, from tiny wasps to giant beetles. It analyses insect evolution, and ...

This book provides a fresh modern introduction to geometry, an ancient branch of mathematics with important applications. It takes readers from Euc...