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1.		Photography: A Critical Introduction from Routledge Price: £15.89 Customer Review: I purchased this book as I am hoping to start a degree in photography in September 2005 and wanted to start "reading around" my subject. Although I haven't read this entire book, it is all ready proving its worth as the chapters' reference many other critical and theoretical works on photography... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Economics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) from OUP Oxford Price: £4.89	Click here for more information

3.		Devising Performance: A Critical History (Theatre & Performance Practices) from Palgrave Macmillan Price: £16.99	Click here for more information

4.		After Modern Art, 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art) from Oxford Paperbacks Price: £8.39 Customer Review: I'm amazed nobody has reviewed this book yet! Among the various studies of post-war art it is by far the best. Driven by the relationship between American and European art it seems to cover all of the main debates and is not afraid to tackle complex theoretical issues in a very readable manner. The... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		What is History? with a new Introduction by Richard J Evans from Palgrave Macmillan Price: £5.99 Customer Review: EH Carr was a great thinker, and in this series of lectures published in What Is History he tackles deep philosophical questions with a wit and intelligent investigation that is difficult to dislike. A bit wordy in places, and a bit mind boggling in others, What Is History is still thought provoking... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Philosophy: The Classics from Routledge Price: £8.70 Customer Review: This is one of the most accessible introductions to western philosophy that I've come across. There are lucid accounts of 27 classic works of philosophy from Plato's Republic to John Rawl's A Theory of Justice. This 3rd edition(2006) includes three new chapters on Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) from OUP Oxford Price: £4.89 Customer Review: I was a total beginner in terms of knowing about the Spanish Civil War and came across this little book in the local branch of Blackwells. As an introductory text, it is superb, the layout of each chapter indicating the main themes which may further be explored. The author first gives an... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt from OUP Oxford Price: £7.25 Customer Review: If you can only have one book on Egyptology then this is the one. Ian Shaw has gathered together experts to present a generally accepted history of this fascinating period of history. As a student of Egyptology I a significant collection of works; but this is the one that I keep returning to. I've... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics) from Routledge Price: £7.90 Customer Review: This book usually comes highly recommended. A 'classic' by a Nobel prize winner. Hayek was in fact an economist, but for the purposes of this book he assumed a political commentator's stance. His thesis is that Socialism is slavery, that the fascist Right and the fascist Left are two sides of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Pursuit of History from Longman Price: £17.09 Customer Review: John Tosh is in my view an excellent writer. This book enables even dimwits like me to understand the basics of historiography - the methods of history. This edition has really helpful notes in the margins explaining more complicated terms in a very simple way - spelling out anachronistic for... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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