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Introducing Media Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar; Borin Van Loon (Illustrator)
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... Ser.
The media is ubiquitous. Every day we watch hours of TV, listen to the radio, read newspapers and magazines, go to the cinema, sit in front of videos or surf the Web. These information commodities exercise enormous influence and power over all of us. Introducing Media Studies explores the complex relati ...Show more
Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide by Robert Hinshelwood; Susan Robinson; Oscar Zarate (Illustrator)
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Melanie Klein was the most innovative and influential child psychoanalyst in the first half of the twentieth century. Introducing Melanie Klein explores her progressive ideas. Her concepts of the depressive position and the paranoid-schizoid position are now in common usage, and her work is studied by ...Show more
Introducing Mind and Brain : A Graphic Guide by Angus Gellatly; Oscar Zarate (Illustrator)
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing... Ser.
How do emotions affect your basic decision making? Why do certain smells prompt long-forgotten memories, and what makes us suddenly self-conscious? How does the biological organ, the brain, give rise to all of the thoughts in your head- enable you to think, to feel, to be conscious and aware- to have ' ...Show more
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues; Chris Garratt (Illustrator)
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or ...Show more
Introducing Nietzsche - A Graphic Guide by Laurence Gane
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing ... | Reading Level: very good
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche for our epoch. This title serves as a guide to the philosopher.
Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide by Tom Whyntie, Oliver Pugh
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing...
What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature? Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real. From the earliest history of the atomic theory thro ...Show more
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Judy Groves
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consciousness? Are we free to choose who we are and what we do? Can we prove that God exists? Can we be certain a ...Show more
Introducing Philosophy of Science : A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar; Borin Van Loon (Illustrator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What do scientists actually do? Is science value-free ? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? Introducing Philosophy of Science is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, a ...Show more
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... S.
"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers d ...Show more
Introducing Political Philosophy : A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Political Philosophy explains the subject s central concepts and presents the major political theorists from Plato to Michel Foucault. How did governments get started? Why should they be obeyed? Could we live without them? How much power should they have? Is freedom a right? Which is the bes ...Show more
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi, Chris Garratt
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What connects Marilyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades. "Intro ...Show more
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide by Ivan Ward
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Introducing... Ser.
INTRODUCING guide to the history and theory of still controversial 'speaking cure'. The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant stream of ...Show more