Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... Shaw ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew ... Ballantyne ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes ART HISTORY Dana Arnold ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin Atheism Julian Baggini Augustine Henry Chadwick BARTHES Jonathan...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21
... eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm and a union negotiating next year’s wage are playing a bargaining game. When opposing candidates choose their platform in an election, they are playing ... Koser INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson ISLAM Malise Ruthven JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves JUDAISM Norman Solomon JUNG Anthony Stevens KABBALAH Joseph Dan KAFKA Ritchie Robertson KANT Roger...
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23
... Colin Ward ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew ... of California’s San Andreas Fault have generated large earthquakes in San Francisco (1989) and southern California (1994), the latter causing damage totalling US$35 billion – the costliest na...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43
Photography: a very short introduction
... be easier to identify a particular pathological condition from an abstracted image than from the contingent forms it actually takes. Photographs make available an archive of diseases unfamiliar ... less knowable in the absence of these images: our familiarity with tropical islands and deserts, anacondas and aardvarks, stems, in the main, from lens-based imagery. (Perhaps zoological and bota...
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Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction
... used against Japanese naval forces and should never be used against Japanese cities. Still others argued that the objective was not so much to defeat Japan as to employ ‘atomic diplomacy’ against ... in initiating a nuclear attack. But, according to nuclear analysts, it’s not because they can’t. With a small quantity of enriched uranium, a handful of military supplies readily avai...
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The meaning of life: A very short introduction
... Sexuality was packaged as a profi table commodity in the marketplace, while culture meant for the most part profi t-hungry mass media. Art was a matter of money, power, status, cultural capital. ... these values all the more eagerly as the public domain itself became increasingly drained of meaning. Fact and value seemed to have split apart, leaving the former a public affair and...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:45