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Richard Appignanesi has written 83 work(s)

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Introducing Machiavelli

Product Description: Nicolò Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical realist whose clear-sighted patriotism made him the first truly modern political scientist...read more

By Patrick Curry and Oscar Zarate

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9781848311756, titled "Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide" | Icon Books, January 16, 2012, cover price $9.95 | also contains Introducing Machiavelli | About this edition: Nicolò Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power.

9781874166283 | Totem Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Traces the career of Machiavelli, discussing his political theories and his influence on political science

Introducing Bertrand Russell

Product Description: Introducing Bertrand Russell celebrates the life and work of a very extraordinary man. We meet a passionate eccentric, an aristocrat with socialist and pacifist beliefs, a deeply religious man who hated all organised religion, and an advocate of women's rights who married several times and had numerous affairs...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Judy Groves and Dave Robinson

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9781840463828 | Icon Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Introducing Bertrand Russell celebrates the life and work of a very extraordinary man.

Introducing Chomsky

Product Description: Heir to the Enlightenment tradition, Chomsky has introduced new perspectives on language, the creative individual and the nature of human freedom in society.

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Judy Groves and John C. Maher

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9781840465891 | Icon Books, January 1, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Heir to the Enlightenment tradition, Chomsky has introduced new perspectives on language, the creative individual and the nature of human freedom in society.

9781840461121 | 2 edition (Icon Books, April 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This book traces Chomsky's understanding of the cognitive realities involved in the use of language, and the technical apparatus needed to represent it.

9781874166429 | Icon Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Explains Chomsky's understanding of the realities involved in the use of language, and his radical critique of powerful institutions and means of oppression

Introducing Rousseau

Product Description: "Introducing Rousseau" presents a maverick thinker whose ideas revolutionised our understanding of childhood, education, government, language and much else. What is the value of civilisation? Rousseau first posed this question. His answer - that civilisation corrupts natural goodness and increases inequality between humans - shocked his Enlightenment contemporaries and still challenges us today...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Dave Robinson and Oscar Zarate

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9781840467895 | Ill edition (Icon Books, August 1, 2007), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "Introducing Rousseau" presents a maverick thinker whose ideas revolutionised our understanding of childhood, education, government, language and much else.

9781840462326 | Reprint edition (Icon Books, May 1, 2001), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Looks at the life and ideas of the French philosopher.

Introducing Mathematics

Product Description: Introducing Mathematics traces the story of mathematics from the ancient world to modern times, describing the great discoveries and providing an accessible introduction to topics such as algebra and chaos theory.

By Jerry Ravetz, Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon (illustrator)

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9781848312975 | Reprint edition (Icon Books, November 15, 2011), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Introducing Mathematics traces the story of mathematics from the ancient world to modern times, describing the great discoveries and providing an accessible introduction to topics such as algebra and chaos theory.

9781840460117 | Icon Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Contrary to most people's perseptions of math as a soulless world of gray individuals, in reality the course of mathematics reveal frequent dramatic conceptual changes.

Introducing Baudrillard

Product Description: One of modern philosophy’s most controversial and popular figures, this introduction presents Jean Baudrillard's radical thought, including his work on obesity, pornography, and terrorism, and his evolution from critic of mass consumption to prophet of the apocalypse...read more

By Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic (illustrator)

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9781848312074, titled "Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide" | Icon Books, July 19, 2011, cover price $9.95 | also contains Introducing Baudrillard | About this edition: One of modern philosophy’s most controversial and popular figures, this introduction presents Jean Baudrillard's radical thought, including his work on obesity, pornography, and terrorism, and his evolution from critic of mass consumption to prophet of the apocalypse.

9781840460872 | 2 edition (Icon Books, September 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Cuts beneath the controversy of misunderstood intellect, Jean Baudrillard, to present his radical claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events ranging from TV news to Disneyland.

Introducing Baudrillard

By Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic (illustrator)

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9781874166368 | Icon Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This work traces the work of Jean Baudrillard, the postmodernist intellectual who has been hailed one of France's most powerful theorists.

Introducing Psychoanalysis

Product Description: Introducing Psychoanalysis asks important questions like: Why was Freud so interested in sex? How does analysis work? Psychoanalytic terms such as Ego, libido and neurosis have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But what is modern psychoanalysis? This book introduces psychoanalysis as a unified theory of the unconscious with a variety of different approaches...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Ivan Ward and Oscar Zarate (illustrator)

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9781840467567 | 1 edition (Icon Books, August 23, 2006), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Introducing Psychoanalysis asks important questions like: Why was Freud so interested in sex?

9781840461763 | Icon Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture.

Introducing Derrida

Product Description: Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late twentieth century. His philosophy is an array of rigorous tactics for destabilizing texts, meanings, and identities. Introducing Derrida introduces and explores his life and work and explains his influence within both philosophy and literature...read more

By Jeff Collins and Bill Mayblin (illustrator)

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9781848312050 | Icon Books, April 5, 2011, cover price $9.95 | also contains Introducing Derrida | About this edition: Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late twentieth century.

9781840461183 | 2nd edition (Totem Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential figures in contemporary philosophy.

Introducing Sartre

Product Description: Between the end of World War II in 1945 and his death in 1980, Jean-Paul Sartre was the most famous French writer, as well as one of the best-known living philosophers. Introducing Sartre explains the basic ideas inspiring his world view, paying particular attention to his ideas on freedom, literature, Marxism, and inequality...read more

By Howard Read (illustrator) and Philip Thody

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9781848312111 | Reprint edition (Icon Books, May 17, 2011), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Between the end of World War II in 1945 and his death in 1980, Jean-Paul Sartre was the most famous French writer, as well as one of the best-known living philosophers.

9781840466720 | 3 new edition (Icon Books, April 30, 2006), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century.

9781840460667 | 2 edition (Icon Books, February 1, 2003), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This text places Sartre's thinking in the context of the 20th century debate on the nature and function of literature, and especially the concept of politically "committed" literature which he so valued.

9781840460070 | Icon Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This text places Sartre's thinking in the context of the 20th century debate on the nature and function of literature, and especially the concept of "politically-committed" literature which he so valued.

Introducing Kant

Product Description: Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought with his attempts to delimit human reason as an object of philosophical inquiry. The book centers on his seminal critiques of pure reason, practical reason, and judgment; explores his ideas; and explains the reasons for his undiminished importance in contemporary debates...read more

By Andrzej Klimowski (illustrator)

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9781848312098 | Reprint edition (Icon Books, April 19, 2011), cover price $9.95 | also contains Introducing Kant | About this edition: Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought with his attempts to delimit human reason as an object of philosophical inquiry.

9781840460810 | 2 edition (Icon Books, July 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Focusing on Immanuel Kant's critiques of pure reason, practical reason and judgement, this text leads the reader through the main formal concepts with which Kant has become associated: the relation of mind to the senses, the question of freedom and the law, and the revaluation of metaphysics.

Manga Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Product Description: A comedy of mistaken identity and thwarted love, Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays and is frequently performed and studied across the country. When Viola finds herself shipwrecked, she pretends to be a male servant and falls in love with Duke Orsino...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (adapted by), Nana Li (illustrator) and William Shakespeare

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9780810997189 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2011, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A comedy of mistaken identity and thwarted love, Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays and is frequently performed and studied across the country.

Manga Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

Product Description: The Merchant of Venice, one of the Bard's most enduring plays, explores themes of forgiveness, prejudice, and fairness, all of which remain vital topics today. In the Manga Shakespeare version, the setting and themes of the play take on new meaning as adapted by the artists guiding the series...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (adapted by), William Shakespeare and Faye Yong (illustrator)

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9780810997172 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2011, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The Merchant of Venice, one of the Bard's most enduring plays, explores themes of forgiveness, prejudice, and fairness, all of which remain vital topics today.

Freud para principiantes / Freud for Beginners

By Richard Appignanesi, Leandro Wolfson (trans) and Oscar Zarate (illustrator)

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9789879065006 | Italian edition edition (Era Naciente, June 30, 2010), cover price $13.95

What Do Existentialists Believe

Part of 'What Do We Believe' series, this title looks at the history of an existential approach to the question of being, and traces it through the thought of major thinkers and writers such as Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

By Richard Appignanesi

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9781862078635 | Granta Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Part of 'What Do We Believe' series, this title looks at the history of an existential approach to the question of being, and traces it through the thought of major thinkers and writers such as Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

Manga Shakespeare: King Lear

Product Description: Combining manga and the timeless texts of Shakespeare’s plays, this series translates some of the greatest works of literature into a new format. In King Lear, the aging king—here a Native American—must decide how to split his kingdom among his daughters...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (adapted by) and Ilya (illustrator)

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9780810942226 | Harry N Abrams Inc, August 1, 2009, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Combining manga and the timeless texts of Shakespeare’s plays, this series translates some of the greatest works of literature into a new format.

Manga Shakespeare: As You Like It

Product Description: Othello and As You Like It are the newest additions to the imaginative world of Manga Shakespeare. In the face of the false evidence produced by the conniving Iago, Othellocannot trust his wife, and his mistrust leads to the play’s tragic conclusion...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (adapted by) and Chie Kutsuwada (illustrator)

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9780810983519 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2009, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Othello and As You Like It are the newest additions to the imaginative world of Manga Shakespeare.

Manga Shakespeare: Othello

Product Description: Othello and As You Like It are the newest additions to the imaginative world of Manga Shakespeare. In the face of the false evidence produced by the conniving Iago, Othello cannot trust his wife, and his mistrust leads to the play’s tragic conclusion...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (adapted by) and Ryuta Osada (illustrator)

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9780810983502 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2009, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Othello and As You Like It are the newest additions to the imaginative world of Manga Shakespeare.

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9781439576205 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Othello and As You Like It are the newest additions to the imaginative world of Manga Shakespeare.

Manga Shakespeare: As You Like It

By Richard Appignanesi (adapted by), Chie Kutsuwada (illustrator) and William Shakespeare

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9781439576199 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Othello and As You Like It are the newest additions to the imaginative world of Manga Shakespeare.

Manga Shakespeare: Macbeth

Product Description: Praise for Manga Shakespeare ALA Best Book for Young Adults ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers “Reluctant readers who appreciate manga and who would not think of picking up the work of Shakespeare are sure to gravitate toward these titles...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (adapted by), Robert Deas (illustrator) and William Shakespeare

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9780810970731, titled "Manga Shakespeare Macbeth" | Harry N Abrams Inc, August 1, 2008, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Praise for Manga Shakespeare ALA Best Book for Young Adults ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers “Reluctant readers who appreciate manga and who would not think of picking up the work of Shakespeare are sure to gravitate toward these titles.

Introducing Artificial Intelligence

Product Description: Explains the advances made over the past half-century, from Alan Turning's influential groundwork to cutting-edge robotics and the New AI.

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Henry Brighton and Howard Selina

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9781840464634 | Icon Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explains the advances made over the past half-century, from Alan Turning's influential groundwork to cutting-edge robotics and the New AI.

Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Product Description: Now presenting Manga Shakespeare—the Bard’s greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readersRomeo and Juliet is ideally suited for the manga format—it has teenage heroes, scheming and villainous adults, heartbreaking tragedy, and the ultimate romantic plot about star-cross’d lovers...read more

By Richard Appignanesi

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9781417810673 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $20.85 | About this edition: Now presenting Manga Shakespeare—the Bard’s greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readersRomeo and Juliet is ideally suited for the manga format—it has teenage heroes, scheming and villainous adults, heartbreaking tragedy, and the ultimate romantic plot about star-cross’d lovers.

Introducing Kierkegaard

Product Description: Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and the first modern theologian. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed people's lives. His distrust of grand abstract schemes, particularly Hegel's, and his insistence that philosophy is essentially writing also identify him as a forerunner of postmodernism...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Dave Robinson and Oscar Zarate

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9781840467581 | Icon Books, October 30, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and the first modern theologian.

9781840464160 | Totem Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Soren Kierkegaard is widely held to be the founder of existentialism--his faith is ironic, playful and passionate, and he wrote like a novelist.

Introducing Aristotle

Product Description: Aristotle was named the 'master of those who know.' He is a foundational thinker in every field of inquiry. He established logic as a systematic discipline, conceived the earliest rules of science, developed a rational psychology, a political science and an outline of sociology, and gave us a virtue theory of ethics that is still a model today...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Judy Groves and Rupert Woodfin

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9781840467598 | 1 edition (Icon Books, October 30, 2006), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Aristotle was named the 'master of those who know.

9781840462333 | Icon Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Aristotle - the "master of those who know".

Introducing Relativity

Product Description: It is now a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity revolutionized our view of the universe. Introducing Relativity plots a visually accessible course through Einstein's thought experiments that have given shape to contemporary physics...read more

By Richard Appignanesi (editor), Bruce Bassett and Ralph Edney (illustrator)

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9781840467574 | 1 edition (Icon Books, September 30, 2006), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: It is now a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity revolutionized our view of the universe.

9781840463729 | Icon Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This book begins with life near the speed of life near the speed of ligh and explores idas of of space-time and curved space.

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