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Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley, Litza Jansz
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Semiotics outlines the development of semioticsthe study of signs and signifiers in the world around usfrom its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. It identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. "
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide by Nick Groom
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Introducing... S.
Much more than a biography or a guide to his plays and sonnets, "Introducing Shakespeare" is tour through the world of Will and concludes that even after centuries, Shakespeare remains the battlefield on which our very comprehension of humanity is being fought out.
Introducing Slavoj Zizek : A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... S.
A unique graphic introduction to Zizek - the Elvis of Philosophy - one of the world's most maverick current thinkers.
Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by John Nagle; Piero (Illustrator)
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Category: Reference | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Sociology is interested in the way citizens shape a society and the way a society shapes its citizens. Simply, it is the study of how society functions, or how it doesn't. In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revo ...Show more
Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide by Eileen Magnello
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing... S.
From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. For the media, statistics are routinely 'damning', 'horrifying', or, occasi ...Show more
Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing... S.
Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV", but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time", and yet confined to a whee ...Show more
Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide by Peter Pugh; Carl Flint (Illustrator)
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Category: History | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister. Admired by Ronald Regan and the United States Congress, Introducing Thatcherism looks at the political philosophy ...Show more
Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide by Craig Callender
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing Time traces the history of time from Augustine's suggestion that there is no time, to the flowing time of Newton, the conventional time of Poincare, the static time of Einstein, and then back, full circle, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity. "
Introducing Walter Benjamin: A Graphic Guide by Howard Caygill; Alex Coles; Andrzej Klimowski
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Introducing... Ser.
This beautifully illustrated guide to Walter Benjaminthe genius behind the famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductiontraces his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between word and ima ...Show more
Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide by John Heaton
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... S.
This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.
Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide by Lloyd Spencer; Andrzej Krauze (Illustrator)
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Category: Religion | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Introducing the Enlightenment is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment--Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the leading thinkers of the age, the men and women who believed that rati ...Show more