Icon Books - A Graphic Guide Collection: 71 eBooks (2003-2014 EN)

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Year: 2003-2014
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Language: English
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Price: 71 x $9.95 = $706.45
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Graphic Guides are unique, comic book-style introductions to humankind’s biggest ideas and thinkers.

Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the ‘aesthetics’ of an artwork or a piece of design. But aesthetics goes beyond the simple experience of art. It is also a branch of philosophy concerned with the whole nature of experience itself, explored through our perceptions, feelings and emotions.
Introducing Alain Badiou: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
The works of French philosopher Alain Badiou range from novels, poems, “romanopéras” and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arguments engaging with mathematical theory.
Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Anthropology originated as the study of ‘primitive’ cultures. But the notion of ‘primitive’ exposes presumptions of ‘civilized’ superiority and the right of the West to speak for ‘less evolved’ others. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became suspect and was torn by dissension from within.
Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Aristotle guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle’s authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy and medieval scholasticism. For fifteen centuries, he remained the paradigm of knowledge itself.
Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess players and humanoid robots that can interact. But can machines really think? Is the mind just a complicated computer program? Introducing Artificial Intelligence focuses on the issues behind one of science’s most difficult problems.
Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Barthes to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs.
Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles—how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In Introducing Bertrand Russell we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education.
Introducing Buddha: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Introducing Buddha describes the life and teachings of the Buddha, but it also shows that enlightenment is a matter of experiencing the truth individually and by inspiration which is passed from teacher to student.
Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Introducing Chaos explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also examines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationship between chaos and complexity, the new unifying theory which suggests that all complex systems evolve from a few simple rules.
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a ‘universal grammar’, a theory of principles common to all languages. Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children learn them are remarkably similar.
Introducing Consciousness: A Graphic Guide (AZW, 176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger’s cat.
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with theories that challenged the very formation of individual and social consciousness.
Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
What might a ‘theory of everything’ look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vie for our attention.
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social and gender identities.
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Introducing Derrida introduces and explains his work, taking us on an intellectual adventure that disturbs some of our most comfortable habits of thought.
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Descartes explains why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions that Descartes asked about human beings and their place in the world.
Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Economics traces the history of the subject from the ancient Greeks to the present day. David Orrell and Borin Van Loon bring the contributions of great economists such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Milton Friedman alive, and delve into ideas from new areas such as ecological and complexity economics that are revolutionizing the field.
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is “identity” now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms?
Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs. Introducing Evolution provides a step-by-step guide to 'Darwin's dangerous idea' and takes a fresh look at the often misunderstood concepts of natural selection and the selfish gene.
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds are built by selfish genes, why are we so cooperative? Can the differences between male and female psychology be explained in evolutionary terms? These questions are at the centre of a rapidly growing research programme called evolutionary psychology.



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Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus’ question of suicide: ‘Must life have a meaning to be lived?’ Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialism ‘the least scandalous, most technically austere’ of all teachings?
Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Fascism investigates the four types of Fascism that emerged after the First World War in Italy, Germany, Spain and Japan.
Introducing Feminism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
The term ‘feminism’ came into English usage around the 1890s, but women’s conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of “Introducing Feminism” surveys the major developments that have affected women’s lives from the 17th century to the present day.
Introducing Fractals: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
From Zeno to Mandelbrot: explore this new language with which you can describe the shape of cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house.
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2011)
Introducing Genetics takes readers on a journey through this new science to the discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday life, many of us increasingly have to make moral decisions where genetics plays a part. This book gives us the information to do so.
Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing guide to the hugely influential German thinker. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
Introducing Hinduism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Introducing Hinduism offers a guide to the key philosophical, literary, mythological and cultural traditions of this extraordinarily diverse faith. It untangles the complexities of Hinduism’s gods and goddesses, its caste system and its views on sex, everyday life and asceticism.
Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2014)
Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers – and provoked and shocked others. The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.
Introducing Islam: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2005)
Islamic culture has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. "Introducing Islam" is a fascinating look into a sometimes misunderstood faith.
Introducing Jesus: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Christianity depends on the belief that the Jesus of history is identical with the Christ of faith, and that God in the person of Jesus intervened finally and decisively in human history.
Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
James Joyce is one of the most famous–and controversial–writers of the twentieth century.
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Illustrated INTRODUCING guide to the pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought.
Introducing Keynes: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
As we find ourselves at the cusp of an economic downturn, there has been a clear reinvigoration of Keynesian economics as governments are attempting to stimulate the market through public funds.
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Known as the first modern theologian, Søren Kierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish ‘golden age’. A philosopher, poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and the importance of the individual, influenced many 20th-century philosophers and literature throughout Europe.
Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas.
Introducing Lévi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Lévi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009).
Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, Introducing Linguistics reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.
Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Yet despite logic’s widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical symbolism.This book follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic in an easy-to-follow and friendly manner.
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. ‘Machiavellian’ is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli’s classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power.
Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Was Marx himself a ‘Marxist’? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say?
Introducing Mathematics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Mathematics traces the story of mathematics from the ancient world to modern times, describing the great discoveries and providing an accessible introduction to such topics as number-systems, geometry and algebra, the calculus, the theory of the infinite, statistical reasoning and chaos theory.
Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Introducing guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of infantile development.
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature – the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett.
Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Newton explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who sifted through the accumulated knowledge of centuries, tossed out mistaken beliefs, and single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics and optics. By the age of 25, entirely self-taught, he had sketched out a system of the world. Einstein’s theories are unthinkable without Newton’s founding system. He was also a secret heretic, a mystic and an alchemist, the man of whom Edmond Halley said, ‘Nearer to the gods may no man approach!’.
Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or only beginning?
Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real.
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Introducing Philosophy is a comprehensive graphic guide to the thinking of all the significant philosophers of the Western world from Heraclitus to Derrida. It examines and explains their key arguments and ideas without being obscure or solemn. Lively and accessible, it is the perfect introduction to philosophers and philosophical ideas for anyone coming to the subject for the first time.
Introducing Philosophy Of Science: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
What do scientists actually do? Is science “value-free”? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? Introducing Philosophy of Science is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, and even scientists themselves.
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2014)
Introducing Plato begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato’s thought. It provides a clear account of Plato’s puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, especially the very odd theory of Forms, and concludes by revealing how Plato’s philosophy stimulated the work of important modern thinkers such as Karl Popper, Martha Nussbaum, and Jacques Derrida.



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Introducing Political Philosophy: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thought. Philosophers have always asked fundamental and disturbing questions about politics. Plato and Aristotle debated the merits of democracy. The origins of society, the state and government authority were issues addressed by Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and many other philosophers. Introducing Political Philosophy explains the central concepts of this intriguing branch of philosophy and presents the major political theorists from Plato to Foucault.
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, “The Satanic Verses” and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world’s cultural condition over the last three decades.
Introducing Psychoanalysis: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Introducing guide to the history and theory of still controversial ‘speaking cure’. The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant stream of anti-Freud literature, little is known about contemporary psychoanalysis. Introducing Psychoanalysis redresses the balance.
Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2003)
What is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? Introducing Psychology answers all these questions and more, explaining what the subject has been in the past and what it is now.
Introducing Psychotherapy: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
What is psychotherapy? How can we choose wisely from so much on offer?
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2013)
Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle”, there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the theory is amazingly accurate and widely applied, explaining all of chemistry and most of physics. Introducing Quantum Theory takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrodinger.
Introducing Relativity: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
It is now more than a century since Einstein’s theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, Introducing Relativity plots a visually accessible course through the thought experiments that have given shape to contemporary physics.
Introducing Romanticism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2014)
Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the ‘Romantic revolution’, when modern attitudes to political and artistic freedom were born. When we think of Romanticism, flamboyant figures such as Byron or Shelley instantly spring to mind, but what about Napoleon or Hegel, Turner or Blake, Wagner or Marx, who also emerged from this great period of turmoil and change?
Introducing Rousseau: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
llustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all. ‘I am like no one else in the whole world …’ Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s defiant Confessions – an autobiography of astounding psychological insight.
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Introducing Semiotics outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley’s incisive text and Litza Jansz’s brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms.
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Shakespeare’s absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.
Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek’s timely analyses of today’s global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.
Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2009)
Exploring the history, mathematics, philosophy and practical use of statistics, Eileen Magnello – accompanied by Bill Mayblin’s intelligent graphic illustration – traces the rise of statistics from the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Chinese, to the censuses of Romans and the Greeks, and the modern emergence of the term itself in Europe.
Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in “The Simpsons on his CV”, but outside his academic field his work is little understood.
Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister.
Introducing The Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
“Introducing The Enlightenment” is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment – Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.
Introducing The Freud Wars: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Compact Introducing guide on the debates surrounding psychoanalysis’s most contested figure. Freud is universally recognised as a pivotal figure in modern culture.
Introducing The Holocaust: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
The Holocaust is a powerful graphic guide that dissolves this stereotype, explaining the causes and its relevance today. It places the Holocaust where it belongs – at the centre of modern European and world history.
Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him. Is time a fourth dimension similar to space or does it flow in some sense? And if it flows, does it make sense to say how fast? Does the future exist?
Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Wagner’s operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide separates the composer’s art from the ideas and the arrogant destructive personal behaviour of the man.
Introducing Walter Benjamin: A Graphic Guide (176 pages, 2012)
Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.



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