Samurai

Michael (Associate Professor of East Asian History, Associate Professor of East Asian History, Marquette University) Wert

ISBN: 9780190932947 | Hardcover

Samurai: A Concise History provides a dynamic look at the life and times of the samurai. Although this warrior class comprised only a small portion of... Meer informatie

Western Europe's Democratic Age, 1945-1968

CONWAY, in, Professor Martin

ISBN: 9780691203485 | Gekartonneerd met stofomslag

What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age,... Meer informatie

Superintelligence

Nick (Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School and Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford) Bostrom

ISBN: 9780198739838 | Paperback

This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in genera... Meer informatie

Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

Richard (, Professor of Government, Harvard University) Tuck

ISBN: 9780192802552 | Paperback

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist. This study evaluates Hobbes's phi... Meer informatie

Empire: A Very Short Introduction

Stephen (, Tutor in Politics at Ruskin College, Oxford) Howe

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780192802231 | Paperback

A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enou... Meer informatie

Hindu-Muslim Relations

University of Oxford) Friedrichs Joerg (associate Professor Of Politics

ISBN: 9780815396833 | Hardcover

This book reconstructs Hindu–Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context, the author explores options for Western Eur... Meer informatie

Hindu-Muslim Relations

University of Oxford) Friedrichs Joerg (associate Professor Of Politics

ISBN: 9781138625471 | Paperback

This book reconstructs Hindu-Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context, the author explores options for Western Eur... Meer informatie

Drugs: A Very Short Introduction

Les (Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University) Iversen

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780198745792 | Paperback

In this second edition, Les Iversen presents an introductory account of what drugs are, how they work, and the advances made over the past 100 years i... Meer informatie

The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

Matthew (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State University) Restall ; Amara (Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State University) Solari

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780190645021 | Paperback

Restall and Solari explore Maya identity, politics, culture, and indigenous views of the universe from ancient times to the present. With the Maya his... Meer informatie

Let's Play, Little Rabbit

Joerg Muhle

Reeks: Little Rabbit

ISBN: 9781776574711 | Overig

Join in with Little Rabbit, playing all the games that toddlers love in this new board book in the internationally bestselling Tickle My Ears interact... Meer informatie

The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction

George (, Tutorial Fellow in Modern History, University of Oxford) Garnett

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780192801616 | Paperback

The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, ca... Meer informatie

The New Roman Empire

Anthony (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) Kaldellis

ISBN: 9780197549322 | Hardcover

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as ... Meer informatie

Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Kenneth O. (Research Professor, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Lecturer in Modern History, Research Professor, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford) Morgan

ISBN: 9780192853974 | Paperback

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century B... Meer informatie

Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Paul (Formerly Professor of Modern History, Formerly Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford) Langford

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780192853998 | Paperback

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century B... Meer informatie

The Last Ghetto

Anna (Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History, Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History, University of Warwick) Hajkova

ISBN: 9780197696323 | Paperback

Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a tran... Meer informatie

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Alex (Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics, Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics, University of Exeter) Prichard

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780198815617 | Paperback

If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this tr... Meer informatie

Demography: A Very Short Introduction

Sarah (Professor of Gerontology, Oxford University, Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing, and Director of the Royal Institution, London) Harper

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780198725732 | Paperback

The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other pl... Meer informatie

Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction

Donna (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin) Kornhaber

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780190852528 | Paperback

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in t... Meer informatie

Magnetism: A Very Short Introduction

Stephen J. (Professor of Physics, Oxford University Department of Physics and Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford) Blundell

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780199601202 | Paperback

What is that strange and mysterious force that pulls one magnet towards another, yet seems to operate through empty space? This is the elusive force o... Meer informatie

Goering

Professor Richard (Professor of History, University of Exeter, Uk) Overy

Reeks: Bloomsbury Revelations

ISBN: 9781350149106 | Paperback

Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy ... Meer informatie