What exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition.

An accessible introductory guide to philosophy guides readers through the traditions of Western philosophy, from Heraclitus to Derrida, navigating some of the most vexing questions posed by the study of philosophy, such as what is the nature of reality? Reprint.

Explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. This book traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.

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? This book aims to answer these questions and more, explaining the subject. It describes the schools of thought and the sections within psychology.

Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. This book takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrodinger.

This title traces the history of time from Augustine's suggestion that there is no time, to the flowing time of Newton, the conventional time of Poincare, the static time of Einstein, and then back, full circle, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity.

Modernism is usually understood as a radical aesthetic transformation, a shock wave of innovations in art, architecture, music and literature. This book explores the avantgardist work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg and other modern masters, it assesses the cinema, but also delves deeper.

'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.

The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This is an examination of one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century.

By the age of 25, entirely self-taught, Newton had sketched out a system of the world. This work 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.

The essential guide to the controversial Martin Heidegger, acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century.

Part of the illustrated Introducing series, providing unique resources and fascinating graphic guides for students and uninitiated lay readers. New edition.

Follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic. This title takes you through the influence of logic on scientific method and the various sciences from physics to psychology.

Introducing Freud successfully demystifies the facts of Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis. Irreverent and witty but never trivial, the book tells the story of Freud's life and ideas from his upbringing in 19th century Vienna, his early medical career and his encounter with cocaine, to the gradual evolution of his theories.

Part of the illustrated Introducing series, providing unique resources and fascinating graphic guides for students and uninitiated lay readers. New edition.

Part of the illustrated Introducing series, providing unique resources and fascinating graphic guides for students and uninitiated lay readers. New edition.

What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. For philosophers, aesthetics crucially opens out onto issues of subjectivity and identity. This work takes you on a tour through this vital field of inquiry.

The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This text is a highly accessible introduction to Einstein's life and thought.