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A Very Short IntroductionChildren&'s literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and...

In the last few years there has been an explosion of philosophical interest in perception; after decades of neglect, it is now one of the most fertile areas for new work.    Perceptual Experience presents new work by fifteen of the world's leading philosophers. All papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics...

The book is a pocket sized guide providing detailed and comprehensive coverage of        clinical psychiatry. Useful to medical trainees in psychiatry and preparing for        exams. Its detail and clinical coverage mean it can continue to be used by junior        psychiatric trainees and those entering individual psychiatric sub-specialties...

Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another        apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, with magnetic        therapies being proposed over the centuries and still popular today. Why are its        mysterious important to solve?In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen J....

For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human        achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in        the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its        northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from        which...

Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? These questions and many more are addressed by two eminent scholars in this groundbreaking analysis of the economic foundations of the European patent system....