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Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 10/01/2014, 18:21

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Economics: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... rarely appears there as an active player) It also came home to me that Oxford University Press had asked me to write a very short introduction to economics and there are economics textbooks that are...

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Game theory: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 10/01/2014, 18:23

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... to use Von Neumann’s theory to ﬁnd how much utility to assign to anything Alice may need to evaluate For example, how many utils should Alice assign to getting a date with Bob? We ﬁrst need to...

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Global catastrophes: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 11/01/2014, 18:43

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... we will begin to move out into space – ﬁrst to our sibling worlds and then to the stars In the current inwardlooking political climate it is impossible to say when a serious move into space will...

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Photography: a very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 11/01/2014, 18:44

... Photography: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by ... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... of photography), attempting to write an introduction to this dispersed ﬁeld feels like a vain task The quite distinct versions of photography’s history unravel attempts to tell a coherent story...

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Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 11/01/2014, 18:44

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... weapons; the race to beat Nazi scientists to the bomb; the history of early attempts to control the bomb, through to the Soviet detonation of an atomic device in August 1949; the race to acquire the ... Nuclear Weapons atom are determined by its atomic number The total number of what is called nucleons (protons and neutrons) in an atom is the atomic mass number Atoms with the same atomic number...

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The meaning of life: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 11/01/2014, 18:45

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... being a tortoise Tortoises are in this sense remarkably similar to postmodernists, to whom the idea of the human condition is equally alien Language, in other words, allows us not only to get ... failed to learn from I can at least claim to have written one of the very few meaning-of-life books which does not recount the story of Bertrand Russell and the taxi driver I am very grateful to...

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Quantum theory: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 12/01/2014, 12:44

... years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology Very Short Introductions available ... satisfactory way We shall see that the true explanation of Balmer’s odd discovery was eventually to be found using a very different set of ideas In the meantime, the nature of atoms probably seemed too ... still being too speculative to be rewarded in this fashion! The quantum analysis of the photoelectric effect was a great physics victory, but it seemed nevertheless to be a pyrrhic victory The subject...

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Existentialism: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 14/01/2014, 10:52

... being], to exist is to choose and to cease to choose is to cease to be Sartre also echoes Kierkegaard’s relation of choice to self-constitution when he adds that, for human reality, to be is to choose ... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts,...

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Chaos: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 14/01/2014, 10:54

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... ‘evolution’ and ‘chaos’ are used simultaneously to refer both to phenomena to be explained and to the theories that are supposed to the explaining This often leads to confusion between the description and ... Of course, an ocean weather ship is harder to misplace than a horse shoe nail There is more to this story, and to see its relevance we need to look into how weather models ‘work’ Operational weather...

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Documentary film: A very short introduction

Ngày tải lên : 14/01/2014, 10:56

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything ... choose the way they want to structure a story—which characters to develop for viewers, whose stories to focus on, how to resolve the storytelling Filmmakers have many choices to make about each of ... ﬁlm : a very short introduction / Patricia Aufderheide p cm.— (Very short introductions) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-0-19-518270-5 (pbk.) Documentary ﬁlms—History and...

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Fossils: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 11/02/2014, 21:04

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Fossils: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... care to remember on working with fossils, I did not set out to be a palaeontologist I am particularly grateful, therefore, to my colleagues on both sides of the scholarly neontological/ palaeontological...

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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 11/02/2014, 21:21

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... meant to combine to enrich each other, productively bringing cultures together, provoking thought, and granting insight to other histories and cultures Although it is ﬁtting to place gravestones...

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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 09:56

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... this book? This Very Short Introduction to ‘Human Evolution’ will concentrate on the physical and not the cultural aspects of human evolution The latter, often referred to as ‘Prehistoric Archaeology’,...

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Newton: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 09:58

... Newton: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... that he ‘would become a very extraordinary man’ Stokes offered to let him board for free, possibly a key factor in Hannah allowing her son to go back to the grammar school to prepare for university...

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HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 17:16

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... transmission Female -to- male transmission 1:700 to 1:3000 Male -to- female transmission 1:200 to 1:2000 Male -to- male transmission 1:10 to 1:1600 Fellatio to 6:100 Parenteral transmission HIV/AIDS Transfusion...

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Logic: A Very Short Introduction

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Relativity: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 09:48

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Relativity: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... accelerators (popularly, though somewhat erroneously, known as ‘atom smashers’) Their function is to use powerful electric forces to accelerate tiny subatomic particles – protons or electrons – to...

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Autism: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 09:50

... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Autism: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Frith, Uta Autism : a very short introduction / Uta Frith p cm – (Very short introductions (VSI)) ISBN 978–0–19–920756–5 Autism in children I Title...

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Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 16:10

... years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology Very Short Introductions available ... International Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall Also available as a larger format paperback, Being Good Preface This Very Short Introduction is shorter than Think, my other introductory book, to which it stands ... text, or a tradition sufﬁciently in touch with the divine will to be able to communicate it to us Then we know what to Obedience to the divine will is meritorious, and brings reward; disobedience...

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