Everything Needs an Introduction...
Combining authority with wit, accessibility and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. They are written by experts for the newcomer, demonstrating the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in over 100 key subjects: from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Animal rights : a very short introduction / David DeGrazia
Archaeology : a very short introduction / Paul Bahn
Architecture : a very short introduction / Andrew Ballantyne
Aristotle : a very short introduction / Jonathan Barnes
Atheism : a very short introduction / Julian Baggini
The Bible : a very short introduction / John Riches
Capitalism : a very short introduction / James Fulcher
The Celts : a very short introduction / Barry Cunliffe
The Cold War : a very short introduction / Robert J. McMahon
Cosmology : a very short introduction / Peter Coles
Darwin : a very short introduction / Jonathan Howard
Democracy : a very short introduction / Bernard Crick
Drugs : a very short introduction / Leslie Iversen
The Earth : a very short introduction / Martin Redfern
Egyptian myth : a very short introduction / Geraldine Pinch
Empire : a very short introduction / Stephen Howe
Engels / Terrell Carver
The European Union : a very short introduction / John Pinder
Evolution : a very short introduction / Brian and Deborah Charlesworth
Fascism : a very short introduction / Kevin Passmore
Free will : a very short introduction / Thomas Pink
The French Revolution : a very short introduction / William Doyle
Freud : a very short introduction / Anthony Storr
Galileo : a very short introduction / Stillman Drake
Gandhi : a very short introduction / Bhikhu Parekh
Globalization : a very short introduction / Manfred B. Steger
Hinduism : a very short introduction / Kim Knott
The history of astronomy : a very short introduction / Michael Hoskin
Ideology : a very short introduction / Michael Freeden
Indian philosophy : a very short introduction / Sue Hamilton
Intelligence : a very short introduction / Ian J. Deary
Islam : a very short introduction / Malise Ruthven.
Judaism : a very short introduction / Norman Solomon
Literary theory : a very short introduction / Jonathan Culler
Locke : a very short introduction / John Dunn
Logic : a very short introduction / Graham Priest
Machiavelli : a very short introduction / Quentin Skinner
Marx : a very short introduction / Peter Singer
Mathematics : a very short introduction / Timothy Gowers
Modern Ireland : a very short introduction / Senia Paseta
Music : a very short introduction / Nicholas Cook
Myth : a very short introduction / Robert A. Segal
Nietzsche : a very short introduction / Michael Tanner
Northern Ireland : a very short introduction / Marc Mulholland
Philosophy : a very short introduction / Edward Craig
Philosophy of science : a very short introduction / Samir Okasha
Plato : a very short introduction / Julia Annas
Postmodernism : a very short introduction / Christopher Butler
Prehistory : a very short introduction / Chris Gosden
Psychology : a very short introduction / Gillian Butler and Freda McManus
Political philosophy : a very short introduction / David Miller
Politics : a very short introduction / Kenneth Minogue
Quantum theory : a very short introduction / John Polkinghorne
Rousseau : a very short introduction / Robert Wokler
The Russian Revolution : a very short introduction / S.A. Smith
Schizophrenia / Christopher D. Frith and Eve C. Johnstone
Shakespeare : a very short introduction / Germaine Greer
Social and cultural anthropology : a very short introduction / John Monaghan and Peter Just
Sociology : a very short introduction / Steve Bruce
Socrates : a very short introduction / C.C.W. Taylor
Terrorism : a very short introduction / Charles Townshend
World music : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman