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The thrilling scientific quest for almost limitless clean energy from nuclear fusion.

A brand new literary title in the renowned graphic novel-style of the Introducing Graphic Guide series.

What is Buddhism really all about?

Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. This book places his work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, and explores his mission to expose the links between knowledge and power in the human sciences, their discourses and institutions.

Carl Gustav Jung was an enigmatic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, the founder of analytical psychology and a one-time disciple of Freud. Introducing Jung explains his key theories that still inform our thinking on psychology and personality, describing the events that led to his creation of The Red Book.

From Rubik's cubes to Godel's incompleteness theorem, everything mathematical explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute.

Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life.

The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This work surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day.