50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Susie Hodge
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2023-05-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1529429277

From Romanesque to Realism; Pop Art to Pluralism, in this series, Susie Hodge introduces the most important art ideas and concepts that form the foundations of Western art.

50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Philip Wilkinson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2023-09-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1529433770

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects' most important and representative works. From the Pyramids of Giza to the Guggenheim, the classical orders of Vitruvius to the most recent contemporary trends today, 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important architectural concepts in history.

50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Adrian Furnham
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1623651921

How different are men and women's brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? If you have you ever grappled with these concepts, or tried your hand as an amateur psychologist, 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know could be just the book for you. Not only providing the answers to these questions and many more, this series of engaging and accessible essays explores each of the central concepts, as well as the arguments of key thinkers. Author Adrian Furnham offers expert and concise introductions to emotional behavior, cognition, mentalconditions--from stress to schizophrenia--rationality and personality development, amongst many others. This is a fascinating introduction to psychology for anyone interested in understanding the human mind.

50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Edmund Conway
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1623651824

What exactly is a credit crunch? Why do professional athletes earn so much more than the rest of us? Which country is likely to be the world's leading economy in ten years' time? Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces and explains the central ideas of economics in a series of 50 essays. Beginning with an exploration of the basic theories, such as Adam Smith's "invisible hand," and concluding with the latest research into the links between wealth and happiness, he sheds light on all the essential topics needed to understand booms and busts, bulls and bears, and the way the world really works.

50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Susie Hodge
Publisher: Greenfinch
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2023-05-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1529429277

From Romanesque to Realism; Pop Art to Pluralism, in this series, Susie Hodge introduces the most important art ideas and concepts that form the foundations of Western art.

50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Ben Dupre
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-08-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 152942870X

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the philosophical questions around knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics and justice that have engaged the minds of thinkers from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato's cave to virtue ethics, theories of punishment to animal rights, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important philosophical concepts in history.

50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Ben Dupre
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1623651808

50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know is a concise, accessible and popular guide to the central tenets of Western thought. Every important principle of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences is profiled in a series of short illustrated essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features.

50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Ben Dupre
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2023-05-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529429250

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the fundamental concepts of politics - political theory, ideologies, the machinery of politics and the stuff of politics. From revolution to feminism, monarchy to political parties, 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important political ideas in history.

50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: John Sutherland
Publisher: Greenfinch
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2023-09-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1529433754

In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen , 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important literary concepts in history.

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Joanne Baker
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1623651905

In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. From Hubble's law to the Pauli exclusion principle, and from Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, she explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.