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Measurement: A Very Short Introduction by David J. Hand
$18.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Measurement is a fundamental concept that underpins almost every aspect of the modern world. It is central to the sciences, social sciences, medicine, and economics, but it affects everyday life. We measure everything - from the distance of far-off galaxies to the temperature of the air, levels of risk, ...Show more
Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Foster
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Medical law is concerned with our bodies, and what happens to them during and after our lives. When things go wrong with our bodies, we want to know what our rights are, and what governs the conduct of the clinicians into whose hands we put our lives and limbs. Dealing with matters of life and death, it ...Show more
Medieval Britain by John Gillingham
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Very Short Introductions
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British ...Show more
Memory (A Very Short Introduction) by Jonathan K. Foster
$24.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well sometimes and not others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated, by psychological techniques or even 'brain implants'? How doe ...Show more
Metaphysics - A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
$14.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Metaphysics is traditionally one of the four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is an area that continues to attract and fascinate many people, even though it is generally thought to be highly complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or rel ...Show more
Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas P. Money
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
In recent decades we have come to realize that the microbial world is hugely diverse, and can be found in the most extreme environments. Fungi, single-celled protists, bacteria, archaea, and the vast array of viruses and sub-viral particles far outnumber plants and animals. Microbes, we now know, play a ...Show more
Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction by Avinash K. Dixit
$19.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Microeconomics - individuals' choices of where to live and work, how much to save, what to buy, and firms' decisions about location, hiring, firing, and investment - involves issues that concern us on a daily basis. But when people think about economics, they tend to place importance on the bigger pictu ...Show more
Minerals: A Very Short Introduction by David J. Vaughan
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Minerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems that we are only now beginning to understand. Exploring the traditional strand of mineralogy, which emphasises the important mineral families, the well-establish ...Show more
Modern China : a Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristiccities, heir to ...Show more
Modernism : A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aest ...Show more
Moons: A Very Short Introduction by David A. Rothery
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Very Short Introductions
Proving to be both varied and fascinating, moons are far more common than planets in our Solar System. Our own Moon has had a profound influence on Earth, not only through tidal effects, but even on the behaviour of some marine animals. Many remarkable things have been discovered about the moons of the ...Show more
Music: a very short introduction by Nicholas Cook
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
Presenting an introduction to music, this book draws on many examples ranging from Beethoven to the Spice Girls to Chinese zither music. It also prompts us to call on our personal musical experiences in order to think critically about the roles of the performer and the listener, and about music as a com ...Show more