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INTRODUCING AESTHETICS

INTRODUCING AESTHETICS

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Christopher Kul-Want, Piero

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What is beauty, and what is truth? And what does aesthetics have to do with either? Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the whole nature of... (more)

INTRODUCING ANTHROPOLOGY

INTRODUCING ANTHROPOLOGY

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Merryl Wyn Davies, Piero

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Anthropology originated as the study of "primitive" cultures -- a now very loaded term. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became suspect and was torn by dissent from... (more)

INTRODUCING BARTHES

INTRODUCING BARTHES

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Philip Thody, Piero

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What do language, clothes, gestures, hairstyles and visual images have in common? They're all signs ? and their study is called semiotics. Roland Barthes' work on structuralism during... (more)

INTRODUCING BERTRAND RUSSELL

INTRODUCING BERTRAND RUSSELL

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Dave Robinson, Judy Groves

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Philosopher, logician, mathematician and historian Bertrand Russell is known not only as a great thinker but as passionate, eccentric and radical social critic. He wrote the Principia Mathematica,... (more)

INTRODUCING BUDDHA: A GRAPHIC GUIDE

INTRODUCING BUDDHA: A GRAPHIC GUIDE

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Jane Hope, Borin Van Loon

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Meditation, Karma, Zen, Tantric and Nirvana are some of the many Buddhist ideas Westerners hear of frequently, even if their meaning has been lost in translation. This vast... (more)

INTRODUCING CAMUS

INTRODUCING CAMUS

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David Zane Mairowitz, Alain Korkos

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A friend of Sartre who used to hang out on the Boulevard Saint Germain, the second youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize, a journalist, French resistance fighter and... (more)

INTRODUCING CHAOS: A GRAPHIC GUIDE

INTRODUCING CHAOS: A GRAPHIC GUIDE

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Ziauddin Sardar, Iwona Abrams

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If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos, the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory,... (more)

INTRODUCING CHOMSKY

INTRODUCING CHOMSKY

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John Maher, Judy Groves

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Can it be that the human brain possesses an inbuilt faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it... (more)

INTRODUCING CONSCIOUSNESS

INTRODUCING CONSCIOUSNESS

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David Papineau, Howard Selina

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What do zombies, Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat have to do with consciousness? Modern science may have split the atom and solved the mystery of... (more)

INTRODUCING CULTURAL STUDIES

INTRODUCING CULTURAL STUDIES

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Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon

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Cultural studies is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline -- a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social and gender identities. This graphic novel... (more)

INTRODUCING DERRIDA

INTRODUCING DERRIDA

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Jeff Collins, Bill Mayblin

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Jacques Derrida, who died in 2004, was one of the most famous philosophers of the late 20th century. Yet his work undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its... (more)

INTRODUCING EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

INTRODUCING EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

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Dylan Evans, Oscar Zarate

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How did the mind evolve? Why can't children under three tell lies? How is the mind a computer? Pulling together insights and data from fields as diverse... (more)

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