I love this series. These little pocket-sized books are smart, literate guides to a single topic. They've got a classy cover scheme to them, and provide a great overview of whatever topic they're covering. They're like ...for Dummies books that people with more than two brain cells to rub together would actually want to read.
The list of titles I own in this series is as follows:
- 3. Buddhism, Damien Keown, 9780192853868
- 4. Literary Theory, Jonathan Culler, 9780192853837
- 7. Islam, Malise Ruthven, 9780192853899
- 22. Eighteenth-Century Britain, Paul Langford, 9780192853998
- 23. Nineteenth-Century Britain, Christopher Harvie & H. C. G. Matthew, 9780192583981
- 36. The European Union, John Pinder & Simon Usherwood, 9780199233977
- 40. Jung, Anthony Stevens, 9780192854582
- 66. Mathematics, Timothy Gowers, 9780192853615
- 67. Philosophy of Science, Samir Okasha, 9780192802835
- 68. Cryptography, Fred Piper & Sean Murphy, 9780192803153
- 74. Postmodernism, Christopher Butler, 9780192802392
- 87. The Cold War, Robert J. McMahon, 9780192801784
- 93. Linguistics, P. H. Matthews, 9780192801487
- 100. Evolution, Brian Charlesworth & Deborah Charlesworth, 9780192802514
- 104. The Elements, Philip Ball, 9780192840998
- 112. Ancient Egypt, Ian Shaw, 9780192854193
- 116. Anarchism, Colin Ward, 9780192804778
- 124. The Marquis de Sade, John Philips, 9780192804693
- 130. Buddhist Ethics, Damien Keown, 9780192804570
- 133. The History of Time, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, 9780192804990
- 139. Journalism, Ian Hargreaves, 9780192806567
- 154. The First World War, Michael Howard, 9780199205592
- 156. Economics, Partha Dasgupta, 9780192853455
- 159. Chaos, Leonard Smith, 9780192853783
- 165. The American Presidency, Charles O. Jones, 9780195307016
- 166. The Great Depression & The New Deal, Eric Rauchway, 9780195326345
- 169. American Political Parties and Elections, L. Sandy Maisel, 9780195301229
- 184. Religion in America, Timothy Beal, 9780195321074
Updated 2009-06-30 13:53:29 by anon