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  2. List of Very Short Introductions books - Wikipedia

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    Anarchism [n 2] Colin Ward: 21 October 2004: Politics Anarchism [n 2] Alex Prichard: 25 November 2022: Politics 117: Ancient warfare: Harry Sidebottom: 25 November 2004: Classical Studies 118: Global warming: Mark Maslin: 25 November 2004 27 November 2008 (2nd ed.) 23 October 2014 (3rd ed.) 19 August 2021 (4th ed.) In the 3rd edition the title ...

  3. Very Short Introductions - Wikipedia

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    While authors may present personal viewpoints, the books are meant to be "balanced and complete" as well as thought provoking. [1] The series began in 1995, and by March 2023 there were 730 titles, published or announced. [2] [3] The books have been commercially successful, [4] and have been published in more than 25 languages. [5]

  4. The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

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    The History of Mathematics consists of seven chapters, [1] featuring many case studies. [2] [3] Its first, "Mathematics: myth and history", gives a case study of the history of Fermat's Last Theorem and of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, [4] making a case that the proper understanding of this history should go beyond a chronicle of individual mathematicians and their accomplishments ...

  5. Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction - Wikipedia

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    Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction is a 2018 philosophy book by Brad Inwood. As part of the Very Short Introductions series published by Oxford University Press , it is aimed at the lay reader. Contents

  6. Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction - Wikipedia

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    The book was reviewed by Ute Römer of the University of Hanover, who wrote that Matthews "has performed the very difficult task of compressing a wealth of material and presenting it in a most accessible way", [1] and by Cheryl Eason of Central Missouri State University, who wrote "I would... suggest that a number of the ideas in the text be illustrated with examples from morphology or syntax ...

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    The length should conform to readers' expectations of a short, but useful and complete, summary of the topic. Few well-written leads will be shorter than about 100 words. The leads in most featured articles contain about 250 to 400 words. Lead sections that reflect or expand on sections in other articles are discussed at Summary style.

  8. Sentence word - Wikipedia

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    The structural version argues that children's “single word utterances are implicit expressions of syntactic and semantic structural relations.” There are three arguments used to account for the structural version of the holophrastic hypothesis: The comprehension argument, the temporal proximity argument, and the progressive acquisition argument.

  9. Basic English - Wikipedia

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    Compound words can be formed by combining two nouns (e.g. soapbox) or a noun and a preposition, which Basic English calls "directives" (sunup). International words, words that are the same or similar in English and other European languages (e.g. radio), use the English form. English forms are also used for numbers, dates, money, or measurements.