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Artificial Intelligence A Very Short Introduction by Boden Margaret A
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Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and -- not least -- on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the pro ...Show more
Behavioural Economics A Very Short Introduction by Baddeley Michelle
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Category: Psychology | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions that work well for us as individuals. Economists also assume that we're doing the very best we ...Show more
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown
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Category: No Category | Series: Very Short Introductions
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction introduces the reader to the teachings of the Buddha and to the workings of Buddhism in daily life. Damien Keown looks at the distinctive features of Buddhism, examining who the Buddha was and what his teachings were. By considering how Buddhist thought has developed ...Show more
Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Usha Goswami
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Category: Psychology | Series: Very Short Introductions
This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and 'bonding', showing how secure attachments enable the development of self-unde ...Show more
Comedy by Matthew Bevis
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Category: Social Sciences | Series: Very Short Introductions
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encoura ...Show more
Dreaming - A Very Short Introduction by J. Allan Hobson
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Category: Psychology | Series: Very Short Introductions
What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanis ...Show more
Economics : a Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta
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Category: Business Finance & Law | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of t ...Show more
Environmental Economics by Stephen Smith
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Category: Business Finance & Law | Series: Very Short Introductions
Environmental economics can be controversial, but it is also central to some key policy issues facing governments and society today, including industrial pollution, global warming, and waste/recycling. Stephen Smith looks at how economic activity affects the environment in which we live, and how environ ...Show more
Film Noir A Very Short Introduction by Naremore James
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Category: Film | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s--shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw lovers, criminal heists, corrupt police, ...Show more
Hollywood (A Very Short Introduction) by Peter Decherney
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Category: Film | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create the handful of companies that havedominated global ...Show more
Islam by Malise Ruthven
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Islam dominates the news, often in stories filled with images of violence. Yet these disturbing images are at odds with a faith that most adherents--who now number over a billion worldwide--would regard as no less pacific than Buddhism or Christianity. Indeed, the word Islam in Arabic means "self-surren ...Show more
Mathematical Finance: A Very Short Introduction by Davis, Mark H. A. (Senior Research Fello
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Category: Business Finance & Law | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In recent years the finance industry has mushroomed to become an important part of modern economies, and many science and engineering graduates have joined the industry as quantitative analysts, with mathematical and computational skills that are needed to solve complex problems of asset valuation and r ...Show more