How Ready Are You For Love?

The School of Life

ISBN: 9781915087119 | Paperback

How ready are you for love? A guided questionnaire to help you understand what you need and want out of a relationship. ost questionnaires are just a... Meer informatie

The Celts: A Very Short Introduction

Barry (, Professor of European Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford) Cunliffe

ISBN: 9780192804181 | Paperback

Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. Ba... Meer informatie

Abolitionism

Richard S. (Professor of History, Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology) Newman

ISBN: 9780190213220 | Paperback

The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout th... Meer informatie

Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power

Valerie (Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York) Steele

ISBN: 9780195090444 | Hardcover

The word fetishism evokes images of `kinky' sex, involving an abnormal attraction to certain articles of clothing, such as black leather boots, or bod... Meer informatie

Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Entertainment

Kawamura, Yuniya (fashion Institute of Technology, Usa) ; Jong, Jung-Whan Marc de (fashion Institute of Technology, Usa)

ISBN: 9781350170551 | Paperback

Is it ever acceptable to “borrow” culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These q... Meer informatie

Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power

Valerie (Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York) Steele

ISBN: 9780195115796 | Paperback

Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing. Today everything from a fetishist's... Meer informatie

Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction

Katarzyna (Assistant Professor, University of Lodz, Institute of Philosophy) De Lazari-Radek ; Peter (Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University & Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne) Singer

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780198728795 | Paperback

Utilitarianism is one of the most important and influential secular philosophies of modern times, and has drawn considerable debate and controversy. T... Meer informatie

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The School of Life

Reeks: The School of Life

ISBN: 9789038804729 | Hardcover

De meeste boeken die ons willen veranderen hebben als doel ons rijker of dunner te maken. Dit boek wil ons helpen om aardiger te zijn: dat wil zeggen ... Meer informatie

Malthus: A Very Short Introduction

Donald (Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex) Winch

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780199670413 | Paperback

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas on population and political economy have had a profound influence on modern econom... 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 long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inev... Meer informatie

Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction

Alan (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of California at Davis, Davis, Ca, Usa) Taylor

ISBN: 9780199766239 | Paperback

By long convention, "American history" began during the early seventeenth century along the Atlantic Seaboard with the English colonies at Jamestown i... Meer informatie

A Simpler Life

The School of Life

ISBN: 9781912891689 | Hardcover

Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied and noisy place... Meer informatie

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

William (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol) Doyle

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780198840077 | Paperback

William Doyle chronicles the unfolding events of the French Revolution, from the quarrels of the first revolutionaries with the king, to the Terror, t... Meer informatie

Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction

Nicholas (Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia) Vincent

ISBN: 9780199582877 | Paperback

The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its ... Meer informatie

Keynes: A Very Short Introduction

Robert (Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick) Skidelsky

ISBN: 9780199591640 | Paperback

John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. His ideas have had a central influence on many of areas of ec... Meer informatie

Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction

Gillian (Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol) Clark

ISBN: 9780199546206 | Paperback

Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction? Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended... 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

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

Demography is the study the study of population size, distribution, composition, and density. Sarah Harper discusses the key theories and methods invo... Meer informatie

The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction

Amrita (, University Lecturer in International Relations at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge) Narlikar

ISBN: 9780192806086 | Paperback

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and ... Meer informatie

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

Jerry (, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London) Brotton

ISBN: 9780192801630 | Paperback

More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society,... Meer informatie