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Fashion (A Very Short Introduction) by Rebecca Arnold
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fashion and Beauty | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and ...Show more
Forests: a Very Short Introduction by Jaboury Ghazoul
$23.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of forest loss and transformation, and yet even in our increasingly urbanized societies we remain surprisingly dependent on forests for a wide range ofgoods and s ...Show more
Hollywood (A Very Short Introduction) by Peter Decherney
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create the handful of companies that havedominated global ...Show more
Iran: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Ansari
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political culture and civilization. This Ver ...Show more
Judaism: A Very Short Introduction by Norman Solomon
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Category: Religion/Spirituality | Series: Very Short Introductions
Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of those with the Jewish faith, Solomon explores how the Jewish religion has developed in the 2,000 years since the days of the Bible. This Very Short Intr ...Show more
Lincoln: a Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen ...Show more
MACHIAVELLI A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by SKINNER QUENTIN
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Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli'sadult life, ...Show more
Mandela by Elleke Boehmer
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
This book explores Nelson Mandela's personal development as well as his public activism, from his childhood as a member of the Thembu royal house through his emergence in the 1950s as a nationalist celebrity, his martyrdom in prison and, finally, his contemporary canonization as a transnational icon of ...Show more
Mao: A Very Short Introduction by Delia Davin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation ...Show more
Medieval Britain by John Gillingham
$37.38 AUD
Category: History | 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
Modern Art by David Cottington
$16.95 AUD
Category: Art Craft Photography | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining itscontemporary relev ...Show more
Modern China : a Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | 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