INTRODUCING SERIES
INTRODUCING is a series of graphic guides that covers every key thinker and topic in philosophy, psychology and science, and many others in politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and other areas. Each book is written by an expert in the field, and illustrated by a leading graphic artist. There’s no better or more enjoyable way to get your head around the biggest ideas mankind has ever come up with.
And, new for 2011, the Introducing Practical Guides take big ideas – and get them working for you. A series of self-help books for busy people, the Practical Guides series takes Introducing into places it’s never been before…
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Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)
Compact INTRODUCING guide to the crucial British philosopher and political activist.Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He co-authored the infamous Principia Mathematica, the most difficult book ever written on the logic of mathematics. A pioneer in logical analysis, he was a resolute empiricist who tackled many puzzles - how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what t…
Introducing Child Psychology - A Practical Guide (Ebook: PDF)
An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to how children think and grow.
Available as EPUB, PDF and for Amazon Kindle.
Available as Child Psychology is a branch of developmental psychology, which is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.Child psychologists examine how children’s brains work even before they are bor…
Introducing Chomsky
Compact INTRODUCING guide to the seminal linguist and irrepressible critic of right-wing America.Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a 'universal grammar', a theory of principles common to all languages. Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children learn them are remarkably similar. Chomsky's…
Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - A Practical Guide (Ebook:EPUB)
An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to the massively popular therapy.
Available as EPUB, PDF and on Amazon Kindle.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, commonly known as CBT, has roots stretching back as far as the ancient Greeks.It is a talking cure – a branch of therapy widely regarded as effective in curing or at least alleviating the symptoms of a wide range of disorders from anorexia to post-…
Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide (PDF)
In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs.
Introducing Evolution provides a step-by-step guide to 'Darwin's dangerous idea' and takes a fresh look at the often misunderstood concepts of natural selection and the selfish…
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology: A Graphic Guide
How did the mind evolve?Why can’t children under three tell lies?How is the mind a computer?
Pulling together insights and data from fields as diverse as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology and archeology, evolutionary psychologists are beginning to piece together the first truly scientific account of human nature.
How has the human mind evolved from that of our ancestors? If our mi…
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)
Compact INTRODUCING guide to Genetics by bestselling science writer Steve Jones.Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code - written in three thousand million letters of DNA - of what makes a human being.Introducing Genetics takes us from the early work …
Introducing Hinduism: A Graphic Guide (PDF)
Hinduism is said to be the world's oldest religion. Yet the word 'Hindu' is of foreign 18th-century origin. Hinduism is defined as a polytheistic religion, but Mahatma Gandhi famously declared that one can be a Hindu without believing in any god.
Hinduism appears to accommodate endless contradictions. It is a religion at least as much of myth as of history - it has no historical founder, no …
Introducing Kafka: A Graphic Guide (EBOOK: PDF)
Compact INTRODUCING guide to the great twentieth-century author.'What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.' Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a 'glass wall'.
Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with …
Introducing Kafka: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)
Compact INTRODUCING guide to the great twentieth-century author.'What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.' Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a 'glass wall'.
Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hil…
