Profile: 418 books

Cover of Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art...
Cover of Social Theory: Ideas in Profile
by William Outhwaite
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important. But by thinking in neat segments, we miss the big picture. When economists think about globalisation, they often see trade; politicians see institutions...
Cover of Politics: Ideas in Profile
by David Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich...
Cover of The Ancient World: Ideas in Profile
by Dr. Jerry Toner
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to the Jews and Syrians who refused to be Romanised. Jerry Toner shows what can be learnt...
Cover of Politics: Ideas in Profile
by David Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich...
Cover of Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile
by Martin Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art...
Cover of Music: Ideas in Profile
by Andrew Gant
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Ideas in Profile Series Is music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for. Music has been central to life since the dawn of humankind and is intimately bound up with the origins of language. Andrew...
Cover of Shakespeare: Ideas in Profile
by Paul Edmondson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Shakespeare is the world's greatest writer. In this lively and authoritative introduction, Paul Edmondson presents Shakespeare afresh as a dramatist and poet, and encourages us to take ownership of the works for ourselves as words to be spoken...
Cover of Geography: Ideas in Profile
by Danny Dorling, Carl Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Geography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to...
Cover of Shakespeare: Ideas in Profile
by Paul Edmondson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Shakespeare is the world's greatest writer. In this lively and authoritative introduction, Paul Edmondson presents Shakespeare afresh as a dramatist and poet, and encourages us to take ownership of the works for ourselves as words to be spoken...
Cover of Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile
by Frank Close
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Physicist Frank Close takes the reader to the frontiers of science in a vividly told investigation of revolutionary science and enterprise from the seventeenth century to the present. He looks at what has been meant by theories of everything, explores the scientific breakthroughs they have allowed,...
Cover of OxCrimes

OxCrimes

Introduced by Ian Rankin

by Peter Florence, Mark Ellingham
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

For 2014, Oxfam and Profile have turned to crime in order to raise a further £200,000 for Oxfam's work. OxCrimes is introduced by Ian Rankin and has been curated by Peter Florence, director of Hay Festival, where it will be launched in May. The stellar cast of contributors will include Mark...
Cover of Criticism

Criticism

Ideas in Profile

by Catherine Belsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics, making our own judgements and interpretations....
Cover of From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent

A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme

by Tony Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010

The flagship Radio 4 programme From Our Own Correspondent gives Britain's most celebrated reporters the chance to describe much more than they can in a normal report: context, history and characters encountered en route. And for the fiftieth anniversary of the programme Profile collected together...
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