50 Big Ideas You Really Need To Know

Author : Ben Dupre
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651808
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Ben Dupre and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know is a concise, accessible and popular guide to the central tenets of Western thought. Every important principle of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences is profiled in a series of short illustrated essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features.

Author : Ben Dupre
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651891
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Ben Dupre and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever lain awake at night worried about how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppetmaster. If so, you are not alone--and what's more, you are in exalted company--for this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper. In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice, and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.

Author : Adrian Furnham
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651921
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Adrian Furnham and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How different are men and women's brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? If you have you ever grappled with these concepts, or tried your hand as an amateur psychologist, 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know could be just the book for you. Not only providing the answers to these questions and many more, this series of engaging and accessible essays explores each of the central concepts, as well as the arguments of key thinkers. Author Adrian Furnham offers expert and concise introductions to emotional behavior, cognition, mentalconditions--from stress to schizophrenia--rationality and personality development, amongst many others. This is a fascinating introduction to psychology for anyone interested in understanding the human mind.

Author : Ben Dupre
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651913
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Ben Dupre and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of corrosive popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater: the forces of Terrorism and Fundamentalism endanger our Security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to Liberty, Democracy and Human rights. Corruption, Spin and a suspect Political culture arouse public indignation, which is further aggravated by an array of Pressure groups and the far-from-disinterested attentions of the Mass media. In 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know, Ben Dupre clears away the murk that obscures key concepts that we ignore at our peril.

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Greenfinch
ISBN 13 : 1529433754
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know written by John Sutherland and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen , 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important literary concepts in history.

Author : Edmund Conway
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651824
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Edmund Conway and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is a credit crunch? Why do professional athletes earn so much more than the rest of us? Which country is likely to be the world's leading economy in ten years' time? Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces and explains the central ideas of economics in a series of 50 essays. Beginning with an exploration of the basic theories, such as Adam Smith's "invisible hand," and concluding with the latest research into the links between wealth and happiness, he sheds light on all the essential topics needed to understand booms and busts, bulls and bears, and the way the world really works.

Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : Greenfinch
ISBN 13 : 1529433770
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Philip Wilkinson and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects' most important and representative works. From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, the classical orders of Vitruvius to the most recent contemporary trends today, 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important architectural concepts in history.

Author : Joanne Baker
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651905
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Joanne Baker and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. From Hubble's law to the Pauli exclusion principle, and from Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, she explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.

Author : Ian Crofton
Publisher : Quercus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848661318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World History 50 Key Milestones You Really Need to Know written by Ian Crofton and published by Quercus Books. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers brief and stimulating outlines of key developments in the history of the world, from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. Crofton brings his lively style to bear in a series of essays ranging from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Vikings and the Mongols to the French Revolution and the Cold War. Each essay is accompanied by a detailed time line of dates and events, and the flavour of the period concerned is brought to life by selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Ashoka, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther, and Suleiman the Magnificent.

Author : Richard Watson
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651956
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Richard Watson and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This thoroughly researched and superbly written book offers an electrifying trip through the wonders--and terrors--awaiting us over the next hundred years.