中文参考译名:生命的意义：在很短的介绍（非常短介绍）
Author: Terry Eagleto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, meaning, life
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0199532176
ISBN-13: 9780199532179

The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer. Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and writers--from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and Beckett--have responded to the ultimate question of meaning. He suggests, however, that it is only in modern times that the question has become problematic. But instead of tackling it head-on,

中文参考译名:佛教伦理：一个非常简短的介绍（非常短介绍）
Author: Damien Keow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, buddhist, ethics
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2005-09-08
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 019280457X
ISBN-13: 9780192804570

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West who see it as either an alternative or a supplement to their own religious beliefs. Numerous introductory books have appeared in recent years to cater to this growing interest, but almost none devotes attention to the specifically ethical dimensions of the tradition. For various complex cultural and historical reasons, ethics has not received as much attention in traditional Buddhist thought as it has in the West. Written by Damien Keown, one of the

中文参考译名:罗马帝国：很短的介绍（非常短介绍）
Author: Christopher Kelly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, roman, empire
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-09-14
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192803913
ISBN-13: 9780192803917

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force--employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical use of power to develop an astonishingly uniform culture.Here, historian Christopher Kelly covers the history of the Empire from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, describing the empire’s formation, and its political, religio

中文参考译名:在西班牙内战：很短的介绍（非常短介绍）
Author: Helen Graham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introduction, introductions, war, civil, spanish
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-06-23
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192803778
ISBN-13: 9780192803771

Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the lay-reader alike. This Very Short Intoduction integrates the political, social and cultural history of the Spanish Civil War. It sets out the domestic and international context of the war for a general readership. In addition to tracing the course of war, the book locates the war’s origins in the cumulative social and cultural anxieties provoked by a process of rapid, uneven and accelerating modernism taking place all over Europe. This shared

中文参考译名:科学与宗教：一个非常简短的介绍（非常短介绍）
Author: Thomas Dixo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, science, religion
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0199295514
ISBN-13: 9780199295517

The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these extremes. As Thomas Dixon shows in this balanced and thought-provoking introduction, a whole range of views, subtle arguments, and fascinating perspectives can be found on this complex and centuries-old subject. He explores the key philosophical questions that underlie the debate, but also high

中文参考译名:量子理论：一个非常简短的介绍（非常短介绍）
Author: John Polkinghorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, quantum, theory
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192802526
ISBN-13: 9780192802521

Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. The main text makes no use of equations, but there is a Mathematical Appendix for those desiring stronger fare. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics, complementarity, the problematic character of measurement, and decoherence are among the many topic

中文参考译名:生命的历史：在很短的介绍（非常短介绍）
Author: Michael J. Bento
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, history, life
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-12-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0199226326
ISBN-13: 9780199226320

Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human--big breakthroughs that made whole new ways of life possible--including cell division and multicellularity, hard skeletons, the move to land, the origin of forests, the move to the air. He describes the mass extinctions, especially the