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Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide by Philip Malcolm Waller Thody; Piero (Illustrator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates Roland Barthes application of semiotics to literature, popular culture, clothes, and fashion, and explains why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the 1960s. "
Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson; Judy Groves
Category: Non-Fiction | 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 Camus by David Zane Mairowitz; Alain Korkos (Illustrator)
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Introducing Camus portrays a man who was an intellectual in the tradition of the great French humanists, a Resistance fighter during World War II, and also a great sensualist for whom sun, sea, sex, football, and theater were the answer to life's absurdity.
Introducing Camus: A Graphic Guide by David Zane Mairowitz; Alain Korkos (Illustrator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Camus portrays a man who was an intellectual in the tradition of the great French humanists, a Resistance fighter during World War II, and also a great sensualist for whom sun, sea, sex, football, and theater were the answer to life's absurdity.
Introducing Chaos by Ziauddin Sardar; Iwona Abrams (Illustrator)
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This title is now available in a new format. Refer to Chaos: A Graphic Guide 9781848310131.
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher
Category: Politics | 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)
Category: Non-Fiction | 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 Cultural Studies by Ziauddin Sardar; Borin Van Loon (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Introducing Ser.
Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution as we begin the new millennium. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? Introducing Cultural Studies provides an incisive tour through the minefield of this complex subject, charting its origins in Britain and its migration to the USA, Canada, ...Show more
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar
Category: Non-Fiction | 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 Descartes by Dave Robinson; Chris Garratt (Illustrator)
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René Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people also know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it.Introducing Descartes explains what Descartes doubted, and why he i ...Show more
Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide by David Orrell
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Introducing... S.
Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that really makes the world go round. Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as 'the science of scarcity' but these days economics is everywhere, and it's never been more popular - as bestselling books such as Freakanomics attes ...Show more
Introducing Einstein: A Graphic Guide by Joseph Scwartz; Michael McGuinness (Illustrator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Introducing... Ser.
The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This text is a highly accessible introduction to Einstein's life and thought.