Oneworld Publications: 450 books
American Politics
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This dynamic Beginner’s Guide covers everything you need to know about American politics today. Exploring the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, Jon Roper asks whether the politics of personality have become too pervasive in the USA. Tackling the nature of...
Critical Thinking
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
We are bombarded daily with vast amounts of information, much of it using faulty logic. From adverts to blogs, television to newspapers, knowing what to believe is a daunting task. Critical Thinking: A Beginner’s Guide teaches you how to analyze people’s arguments and explains the main "fallacies"...
Medieval Philosophy
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Why do good things happen to bad people? Can we prove whether God exists? What is the difference between right and wrong? Medieval Philosophers were centrally concerned with such questions: questions which are as relevant today as a thousand years ago when the likes of Anselm and Aquinas sought to resolve...
Misquoting Muhammad
The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law. Sometimes rumor, sometimes based in fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic...
Confucianism
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century China, this unique new introduction follows a Confucian couple, together with their family, friends, and staff, through a typical day. The result offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual, scholarly, and practical aspects of Confucianism.
Christianity
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With over two billion adherents worldwide, Christianity is the world’s largest religion. However, with a multitude of denominations, and a huge variety of opinions on many of its central tenets, it can be difficult to obtain a balanced overview of the faith. Renowned theologian and bestselling author...
This Is Improbable
Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Often, thinking seriously about outlandish problems is the only way to make progress in science. The rest of the time, it’s hilarious. Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny exposé of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research...
Climate Wars
The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Waves of climate refugees. Dozens of failed states. All-out war. From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts comes a terrifying glimpse of the strategic realities of the near future, when climate change drives the world’s powers towards the cut-throat politics of survival. Prescient and unflinching,...
Renaissance Art
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The 15th century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European culture. But what does the familiar phrase Renaissance Art” actually describe? Through engaging discussion of timeless works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, Nichols produces...
by Annette Dumbach, Jud Newborn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II, featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. Republished in 2018 to commemorate the 75 years since their arrest and execution.
The Northern Ireland Conflict
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Northern Ireland conflict was the most protracted campaign of terrorist violence in modern history. This landmark introduction uses interviews and the latest archival material to chart the history of The Troubles” and examine their legacy. Exploring the effects of sectarian violence, international...
Sorry, I'm British!
An Insider's Romp Through Britain from A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
They’re just across the pond but they’re a strange bunch. Explore the oddities of the British psyche with this witty illustrated book. A perfect companion to British behavior, get to grips with everything from small-talk to superiority, from the stiff upper lip” to hooliganism, from cricket to...
The European Union
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The world’s greatest importer and exporter, the European Union is an economic superpower with a GDP even larger than th US. It is America’s most important trading partner and a key ally on the world stage, but how much do we really know about the nature and aim of European integration? And, in an...
Posh Boys
How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are provided with all the teachers they need, the best facilities, doctors and food. Every day...