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Psychiatry is increasingly a part of everyday life (think about Prozac, ADHD, Care in the Community) and this book provides a valuable and comprehensible introduction to the subject... Zobraziť viac
The only short and accessible introduction to Engels... Zobraziť viac
Lively and original introduction to Plato, which brings out the philosophical excitement of Plato`s writings... Zobraziť viac
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Written by one of the few academics worldwide who specializes in the area, this is the only short introduction to Buddhist ethics available... Zobraziť viac
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A brief overview of the central themes in Irish history, politics, and culture over the last 200 years... Zobraziť viac
What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians, and journalists over the last two and a half millennia... Zobraziť viac
Introduction to the fifth century Greek thinker and researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who invented the genre of historical investigation... Zobraziť viac
Explains the vast array of different conditions that hide behind the two labels, autism and Asperger syndrome... Zobraziť viac
Superconductivity was one of the greatest discoveries of 20th century physics, and the theory that emerged one of the most beautiful and extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics... Zobraziť viac