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Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction by Oliver Gloag
$17.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Albert Camus is one of the best known philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as a widely read novelist. This book contextualises Camus in his troubled and conflicted times, and analyses the enduring popularity of his major philosophical and literary works in connection with contemporary politica ...Show more
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
From aesthetics to the penal system, and from madness and civilization to avant-garde literature, Foucault was happy to reject old models of thinking and replace them with fresh versions that are still being debated today. A major influence on Queer Theory and gender studies (he was openly gay and died ...Show more
Military Strategy by Echevarria Antulio J
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Category: Military | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccol� Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, Antulio J. Echevarria II presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Drawing on historical examples, from Hannibal's war against Rome to Napoleon's vic ...Show more
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations of his thought range from the highly irrational to ...Show more
Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick
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Category: Psychology | Series: Very Short Introductions
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey o ...Show more
Russian History by Geoffrey Hosking
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact with the outside world, and has open and vulnerable l ...Show more
Socrates: A Very Short Introduction by Taylor, C.C.W. (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Stoicism by Brad Inwood
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This ...Show more
The Russian Revolution : a Very Short Introduction by S.A. Smith
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. This very short introduction examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole - on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, and youth.
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