What is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream?Questions
In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction
Games are played whenever people interact wherever there are strategies to adopt and outcomes or prizes to win. And that means games are played everywhere: from economics to evolutionary biology, fro
Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world's longest running play. This Very Short Introduction will explore this extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her stra
This Very Short Introduction aims to show the extraordinary sophistication and self-awareness of Eliot's fiction, which resists any kind of moral or artistic simplification.
Sustainability has gained wide currency as an aspirational concept for humans to pursue in their relationship with our planet. This book provides a succinct overview of the scientific and social found
An introduction to the thought and background of the Greek historian Thucydides, this book examines his account of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the context both of the international situ
