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020312
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.
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131pOrange Spine
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Very Short Introductions
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Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research.
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Introduction
The moral status of animals
What animals are like
The harms of suffering, confinement, and death
Meat-eating
Keeping pets and zoo animals
Animal reserch
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0192853600 Pb.
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| 019109 | 179.3/DEG | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017025
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
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xix, 158pPurple Spine
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Very Short Introductions
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This book provides the ideal introduction to thinking about art. Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy in art are constantly in the headlines, and why it matters. She discusses the relationship of art with beauty, culture, money, sex, and new technology, and draws on examples from Rembrandt, Goya, and Damien Hirst to African nail fetishes, Indian Pueblo dancing, and MTV.
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9780192804631 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I01020 | 701/FRE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017070
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New York, Oxford University Press, 2004.
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xvii, 184pBlack Spine
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Very Short Introductions
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The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of the 'readymade', attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, attitudes to women, fetishism, and primitivism. The international nature of these movements is examined, covering the cities of Zurich, New York, Berlin, Cologne, Barcelona, Paris, London, and recently discovered examples in Eastern Europe.
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9780192802545 Pb.
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| I01035 | 709.04/HOP | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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012317
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
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xiv, 172pBrown Spine
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Very short introductions
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A very readable introduction to economics that is carefully and seriously analytical though not technical.
Explains the logic of economics without losing sight of the texture of economic life.
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9780192853455 Pb.
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| I00428 | 330/DAS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011532
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New York, Oxford University Press, 2008.
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xiv, 186pBlue Spine
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Very Short Introductions
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Using wide-ranging examples from climate change and natural hazards to urbanization and ethnicity, this Very Short Introduction explains the concepts and methods used by geographers, and explores the current state of the subject. Looking at both its strengths and its controversies, the book's conclusion is no less than a manifesto for Geography's future.
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Preface
List of illustrations
Geography: the world is our stage
The physical dimension: our natural environments
The human dimension: people in their places
Geography as a whole: the common ground
How geographers work
Geography's present and future
References
Further reading
Index
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9780199211289 Hb.
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| 011690 | 910/MAT | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011515
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.
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132pGrey Spine
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Very Short Introductions
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From global warming and mega-tsunami, to asteroid impact, super-volcanoes, and the next Ice Age - the author reveals just how fragile and violent the planet we inhabit can be, and explains the science behind the threats we face.
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A very short introduction to the Earth
Global warming : a lot of hot air?
The Ice Age cometh
The enemy within : super-eruptions, giant tsunami, and the coming great quake
The threat from space : asteroid and comet impacts
Epilogue
Appendix A. Threat timescale
Appendix B. Geological timescale
Further reading
Index
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9780192804938 Pb.
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| 011424 | 363.73/McG | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020375
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
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xiv, 170pBrown spine
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Very Short Introductions
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Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen shows how the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. Allen shows how the industrial revolution was Britain's path-breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations, pursuing four polices--creating a national market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their fledgling industries from British competition, creating banks to stabilize the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and promoting mass education to prepare people for industrial work. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer. A few countries--Japan, Soviet Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China--have caught up with the West through creative responses to the technological challenge and with Big Push industrialization that has achieved rapid growth through coordinated investment
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9780199596652 Pb.
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| I01809 | 330.9/ALL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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018098
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
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149pRed and blue spine
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Very Short Introductions
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What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining respect for tradition and truth and encouraging suspicion about the political and psychological implications of cultural projects rather than admiration for great literature.
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9780199691340 Pb.
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| I01289 | 801/CUL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011188
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New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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171pBlue Spine
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Very Short Introductions
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Nineteenth-century Britain gives a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change - and an even more remarkable political stability.
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Reflections on the revolutions
Industrial development
Reform and religion
The wars abroad
Roads to freedom
Coping with reform
Unless the Lord build the city
The ringing grooves of change
Politics and diplomacy: Palmerstons years
Incorporation
Free trade: an industrial economy rampant
A shifting population: town and country
The masses and the classes: the urban worker
Clerks and commerce: the lower middle class
The propertied classes
Pomp and circumstance
A great change in manners
Villa Tories: the Conservative resurgence
Ireland, Scotland, Wales: Home Rule frustrated
Reluctant imperialists?
The fin-de-si`ecle reaction: new views of the State
Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, Labourism, and tariff reform
Edwardian years: a crisis of the State contained
Your English summers done
Further reading
Chronology
Prime ministers 1789-1914
Index
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0192853988 Pb.
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018032
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
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xiii, 175pBrown and orange spine
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Very Short Introductions
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Helen Graham highlights the domestic and international context of the Spanish Civil War, and reveals its origins in the political and cultural anxieties provoked by the rapid modernization of Europe. Using personal narratives, she combines a powerfully human account of the war an its aftermath with a disturbing ethical enquiry into its legacy for the 21st century.
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9780192803771 Pb.
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| I01258 | 946.081/GRA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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010570
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New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002.
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xx, 180pGreen Spine
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Very Short Introductions
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World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity. This book is wide-ranging in its geographical scope, (inclusive of National anthems too) yet individual chapters provide in-depth treatments of selected music cultures and regional music histories. The book frequently zooms in on repertoires and musicians--such as Bob Marley, Dana International, Bartok, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan--and attempts to account for world music's growing presence and popularity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Preface
List of illustrations
Maps
In the beginning...myth and meaning in world music
The West and the world
Between myth and history
Music of the folk
Music of the nations
Diaspora
Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music
References
Further reading
Listening
Index
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0195681673 Pb.
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| 010884 | 780/BOH | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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