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It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity...

What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people? Mathematics...

More than anything else, language is what makes us human. Linguistics, the discipline which studies...

Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-...

Soren Kierkegaard is now regarded as the founder of Existentialism and the first modern theologian....

Fractal geometry is the geometry of the natural world. It mirrors the uneven but real...

Carl Gustav Jung was a controversial disciple of Sigmund Freud. This title explains the theories...

Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has...

In the wake of the Great Depression, Keynes advocated that governments spend vast anounts of...

The Ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they...

Introducing Hinduism offers a guide to the key philosophical, literary, mythological and cultural traditions of...

The last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with...

How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of...

Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego,...

Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and...

Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as the most important event of thought...

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it...

Moving, shocking and wonderful in equal measures, Into That Forest is a must-read for anyone...

Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man...

Introducing Chaos explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from...

'Lucid, witty and exact.' New Statesman. Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has...

Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our...

'An excellent book.' Ted Honderich, leading British philosopher This compact book provides a comprehensive guide...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy for ever. He co-authored the infamous Principia Mathematica, the most...

The German occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blanchot's career as a political...