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Six boxed sets, each with a different theme, were released in 2006. Five books from the series on the given theme were included, plus the series' promotional volume A Very Short Introduction to Everything. The Ballot Box. Politics (008) Capitalism (108) Democracy (075) Socialism (126) Fascism (077) The Brain Box. Evolution (100) Consciousness ...
Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep, 2002: Psychology 128: Dinosaurs: David Norman: 28 July 2005 28 December 2017 (2nd ed.) Biology/Earth Sciences/Geography 129: Renaissance Art: Geraldine A. Johnson: 21 April 2005: Art 130: Buddhist ethics: Damien Keown: 23 June 2005 25 June 2020 (2nd ed.) Religion 131: Tragedy: Adrian Poole: 11 ...
Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction is a 2018 philosophy book by Brad Inwood. As part of the Very Short Introductions series published by Oxford University Press , it is aimed at the lay reader. Contents
The History of Mathematics consists of seven chapters, [1] featuring many case studies. [2] [3] Its first, "Mathematics: myth and history", gives a case study of the history of Fermat's Last Theorem and of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, [4] making a case that the proper understanding of this history should go beyond a chronicle of individual mathematicians and their accomplishments ...
One-letter words play a role in the Oulipian [155] constraint, a form of rhopalic verse in which the first line consists of a one-letter word. [156] But above all, they are the subject of a notable experiment by François Le Lionnais, dating from 1957 and published in La Littérature potentielle in 1973, of "Réduction d'un poème à une seule ...
The book was reviewed by Ute Römer of the University of Hanover, who wrote that Matthews "has performed the very difficult task of compressing a wealth of material and presenting it in a most accessible way", [1] and by Cheryl Eason of Central Missouri State University, who wrote "I would... suggest that a number of the ideas in the text be illustrated with examples from morphology or syntax ...
The very short final line of a paragraph composed of a single word (highlighted blue) is a runt. The first line of a paragraph beginning at the end of a page (highlighted green) is called an orphan (sometimes called a widow). The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan).
The personal nature of many of the verses of the Nine Lyric Poets led to the present sense of "lyric poetry" but the original Greek sense of "lyric poetry"—"poetry accompanied by the lyre" i.e. "words set to music"—eventually led to its use as "lyrics", first attested in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. [5]