Current And Social Affairs
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The fire next time
£8.99The fire next time
Sounds a clarion warning to the world.
SKU: 9780140182750 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Human rights, civil rights, Literary essays, Religion & politics£8.99 -
Political Philosophy
£8.99Political Philosophy
This short text introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as, ‘how should we live together in society?’.
SKU: 9780192803955 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Human rights, civil rights, Political structures: democracy£8.99 -
Feminism
£8.99Feminism
This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.
SKU: 9780192805102 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Cultural studies, Human rights, civil rights, Social & cultural history£8.99 -
Economics
£8.99Economics
Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta reveals the connections between economics, politics, and development, and shows how these interactions create the world we live in today.
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The Invisible Hand
£7.99The Invisible Hand
Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market argued that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an ‘invisible hand’.
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Communism
£8.99Communism
The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction examines the history behind the political, economic, and social structures of communism as an ideology.
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Fascism
£8.99Fascism
Fascism is notoriously hard to define. In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world, to make sense of its ideology and place in the modern world.
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Capitalism
£8.99Capitalism
In this Very Short Introduction James Fulcher considers what capitalism is, the forms it can take around the world, and its history of crises and long-term development. In this new edition he discusses the fundamental impact of the global financial crises of 2007-8 and what it has meant for capitalism worldwide.
SKU: 9780198726074 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Political economy, Politics & government£8.99 -
Good Ideas
£10.99Good Ideas
The way we’ve been taught excludes or limits all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture. From cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to model-making, from playing Top Trumps to arguing with TV programmes, from collecting leaves to playing ‘Who am I?’, Michael Rosen shows how to use everything around you to learn more – and how enjoyable and satisfying it can be.
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Proverbs
£5.99Proverbs
In this compact book, renowned Irish painter Hector McDonnell takes a world tour of over 1,200 proverbs, comparing their similarities and contradictions, and revealing the secret patterns of common sense, human nature and human folly.
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Prisoners of Geography
£10.99Prisoners of Geography
Spread over ten chapters, using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, ‘Prisoners of Geography’ looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to geopolitics, one of the major determining factors in world history. This edition has been updated to reflect current events of 2016.
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A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women
£12.99A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a range of subjects. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny. In the book’s central essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section, reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory, perception and the philosophy of Kierkegaard.
SKU: 9781473638907 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Gender studies: women & girls, Psychology, Social & political philosophy£12.99