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Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Every day we talk about the aesthetics of a piece of art or design. More than a simple response, aesthetics is a philosophy in which perceptions, feelings, and emotions combine to form the whole nature of experience. Through clear text and fitting illustrations, Introducing Aesthetics provides a captiva ...Show more
Introducing American Politics Graphic Guide by Laura Locker; Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Jules Scheele teams up with Dr Laura Locker in this comic-book introduction to the political history of the Land of Opportunity. How did a political outsider like Trump win the 2016 presidential election? Why do s ...Show more
Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin, Judy Groves
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Category: History | Series: Introducing... S.
"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy and medieval scholasticism. For fifteen centuries, ...Show more
Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide by Henry Brighton; Howard Selina (Illustrator)
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess players, and humanoid robots that can interact. But can machines really think? Is the mind just a complicated computer program? Introducing Artificial Intelligence focuses on the issues behind one of science's ...Show more
Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson; Judy Groves
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzleshow our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In Introducing Bertrand Russell we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religio ...Show more
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships. "Introducing Capitalism" tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and st ...Show more
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... S.
'Lucid, witty and exact.' New Statesman. Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a 'universal grammar', a theory of principles common to all languages. Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children lear ...Show more
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want; Piero (Illustrator)
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'?Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with ...Show more
Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide by Stuart Sim, Borin van Loon
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new histor ...Show more
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Covering the ground from Antonio Gramsci to Raymond Williams, postcolonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, feminism to queer theory, technoculture and the media to globalization, Introducing Cultural Studies serves as an insightful guide to the essential concepts of this fascinating area of study ...Show more
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide by Jonathan Miller
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid, riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theorie ...Show more
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... S.
Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminat ...Show more