Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century.
Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet he has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminated it with literary styles of writing. Derrida's philosophy is a puzzling array of oblique, deviant a…
Introducing Derrida
by Collins, Jeff, Mayblin, Bill
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Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet he has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminated it with literary styles of writing. Derrida's philosophy is a puzzling array of oblique, deviant a…
Introducing capitalism
by Piero, Cryan, Dan, Shatil, Sharron
fromIntroducing (Thriplow, England)
Capitalism has influenced everything in the 21st-century world. This work tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise. Tracing capitalism from its beginning, it looks at its practical and th…
Introducing philosophy: a graphic guide
by Robinson, David, Groves, Judy
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Introducing mathematics: a graphic guide
by Van Loon, Borin, Sardar, Ziauddin, Ravetz, Jerome R.
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Introducing quantum theory: a graphic guide
by Zarate, Oscar, McEvoy, J. P., (Joseph P.)
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Introducing logic: a graphic guide
by Cryan, Dan, Shatil, Sharron, Mayblin, Bill
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Introducing Stephen Hawking
by Zarate, Oscar, McEvoy, J. P., (McEvoy, Joseph P.)
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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 y…
Introducing Stephen Hawking
by Zarate, Oscar, McEvoy, J. P., (Joseph P.)
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"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", …
Introducing feminism: a graphic guide
by Groves, Judy, Jenainati, Cathia
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This is a guide to the struggle for women's rights - a stormy history of conservative male opposition from the outside and disagreements within the movement.
Did Fascism end with the Allied victory over the Axis powers in 1945, or has it been lying dormant and is now reawakening as we move into the 21st century? Introducing Fascism trace the origins of Fascism in 19th-century traditions of ultra- conservatism, the ideas of Nietzsche,…
INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clo…
Introducing Barthes: a graphic guide
by Piero, Thody, Philip Malcolm Waller
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"Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates Roland Barthes' application of semiotics to literature, popular culture, clothes, and fashion, and explains why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the 1960s."--Publisher description
Introducing media studies: a graphic guide
by Van Loon, Borin, Sardar, Ziauddin
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