Reading a very short introduction

Pro vyhledávací frázi Reading a very short introduction jsme na našem vyhledávači našli 723 výsledků. Nenašli jste přesně to, co jste hledali? Zkuste frázi Reading a very short introduction trochu pozměnit a opět zadat do vyhledávacího pole. Pevně věříme, že produkt, který hledáte v naší nabídce na srovnávači CoChceš.cz naleznete!

Nalezeno 723 produktů

Projects: A Very Short Introduction

A project is a temporary organization of people and resources brought together to achieve a one-off objective. Andrew Davies explains how and why the

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Synaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction

Synaethesia is a neurological condition that gives rise to a 'merging of the senses': those with the condition might experience certain numbers as a s

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction

For a century, Nietzsche has been among the most controversial of modern writers. Since his death in 1900, he has been appropriated as an icon by a di

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Classics: A Very Short Introduction

Starting with a visit to the British Museum, the authors prompt us to consider the significance of Classics as a means of discovery and enquiry, its v

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Molecules: A Very Short Introduction

Molecules are the building blocks of matter. Using the molecules of life as a springboard, Philip Ball provides a new perspective on modern chemistry.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Madness: A Very Short Introduction

Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction

Kabbalah has reaped a wealth of attention, but many argue that the form practiced in Hollywood is more New Age than authentic tradition. Dan offers a

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Logic: A Very Short Introduction

Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction

What is agnosticism? Is it a belief, or just the absence of belief? What is the 'agnostic' principle? Robin Le Poidevin takes a philosophical approach

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction

What do we mean by 'tragedy' now? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with Sophocles and Shakespeare? A

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Teeth: A Very Short Introduction

Teeth are a vital component of vertebrate anatomy and a fundamental part of the fossil record. It was the evolution of teeth, associated with predatio

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Fashion: A Very Short Introduction

Fashion is a global industry, and plays a role in our economic, political, cultural, and social lives. However, fashion is often denigrated as trivial

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction

Crystallography is a vital field that underlies much research in chemistry and materials science, and has played a central role in molecular biology.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction

Combinatorics is a large branch of mathematics involving the counting, selecting, and arranging of objects. Robin Wilson explores the field, looking a

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Film: A Very Short Introduction

Film is considered to be the dominant art form of the twentieth century. It can be considered many other things; a record of events, a modern mytholog

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction

Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the su

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction

Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book tr

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

Rousseau was both a central figure of the European Enlightenment and its most formidable critic. This study of his works, across a range of discipline

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Eugenics: A Very Short introduction

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction

Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is acknowledged to be a great writer on war. Even though he wrote his work at a time when the range of firearms was fi

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Oceans: A Very Short Introduction

Our oceans are hugely important, as a source of food and mineral wealth, as an environment for a vast variety of wildlife, for the role they play in c

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Imagination: A Very Short Introduction

Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this book explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of hu

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction

Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of Schopenhauer's metaphysical system, concentrating

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Populism: A Very Short Introduction

A timely overview of populism, one of the most contested concepts in political journalism and the social sciences.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Dyslexia: A Very Short Introduction

Dyslexia is gaining increasing recognition as a relatively common learning disorder. Margaret Snowling introduces the exciting research surrounding dy

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction

A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Robotics: A Very Short Introduction

Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Paul: A Very Short Introduction

Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles he laid the

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

Aristocracies dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European countries until only a few generations ago. William Doyle stri

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Adolescence: A Very Short Introduction

Adolescence can be a turbulent period. Encompassing both classic and modern research, Smith explores its cultural and historical context, the biologic

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Darwin: A Very Short Introduction

Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Privacy: A Very Short Introduction

Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, online security, the monitoring of employees, the uses of DNA -- to name a few -- all raise funda

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist. This study evaluates Hobbes's phi

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Russell: A Very Short Introduction

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A. C.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Celts: A Very Short Introduction

Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. Ba

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Galileo: A Very Short Introduction

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was c

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Habermas: A Very Short Introduction

This book provides a clear and readable overview of the works of today's most influential German philosopher. It analyses the theoretical underpinning

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Empire: A Very Short Introduction

Although the great historic imperial systems have collapsed during the past, their legacies shape almost every aspect of life on a global scale. What

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Autism: A Very Short Introduction

What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Taxation: A Very Short Introduction

Tax revenues pay for many public services, including roads, health care, and education. However, it has become a contentious political issue of public

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Paganism: A Very Short Introduction

From its origins to the present day, Owen Davies explores ideas about paganism that have existed over the last two millennia. He takes a chronological

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Spirituality: A Very Short Introduction

With a decline in traditional religious belief, interest in spirituality has grown hugely in Western cultures. The notion of spirituality expresses th

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Keynes: A Very Short Introduction

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 ec

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Geography: A Very Short Introduction

Modern Geography has come a long way from its roots in simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography,

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction

From the fourth to the fifteenth century AD the Byzantine Empire flourished as a powerful economic, cultural, and military force, whose influence stre

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Anaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction

What do anaesthetists do? How do anaesthetics work? What are the risks? And how does the anaesthetist know if you are really asleep? Anaesthesia is a

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Cancer: A Very Short Introduction

Cancer is a problem that touches virtually everyone either directly or indirectly. As one of the biggest killers in the Western world it is feared by

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Reality: A Very Short Introduction

'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. But it is not just a question that philosophers ask.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Beats: A Very Short Introduction

This book offers a concise overview of the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beat Generation, explaining how their drastic visions

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction

Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of disease. It is a vital field, central to the health of society, to the identification of causes

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Dementia: A Very Short Introduction

Kathleen Taylor offers a clear guide to dementia, covering its history and its definition, different types and their symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction

Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'war against terrorism'? In this fully updated edition, Charles Townshend unravels the questions at the hear

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction

The issues of microeconomics - including individuals' financial choices and firms' decisions about hiring and firing - have a large impact on the econ

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Reformation: A Very Short Introduction

The Reformation was a seismic event in European history, and one which changed the medieval world. Much which followed in European history can be trac

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Smell: A Very Short Introduction

Matthew Cobb explores the sense of smell - its complex evolutionary history, and its many functions in a wide variety of animals, including humans. He

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction

Freemasonry is one of the oldest and most widespread voluntary organizations in the world. Andreas Ă–nnerfors sorts the facts from the colourful ficti

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

Astrobiologists study the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond Earth; a question that has fascinated scientists fo

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a g

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

In this book, Julian Baggini explores the arguments for atheism, and dispels some common myths, explaining how a life without religious belief can be

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Canada: A Very Short Introduction

A bilingual, multicultural, and multinational nation, Canada borders the United States, reaches into the Arctic, and stretches across six time zones.

Více informací
Dostupnost: do 7 dnů
Používáme cookies, abychom mohli provozovat tuto internetovou stránku a zlepšit Vaši uživatelskou spokojenost. Budete-li pokračovat beze změny nastavení, předpokládáme, že souhlasíte s ukládáním souborů cookies z internetových stránek. Více informací o použití cookies.
OK