Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide.
The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology.
Very Short Introductions available now:
ANARCHISM Colin Ward
CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw
THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Continental Philosophy
Julia Annas
Simon Critchley
ANCIENT WARFARE
COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
Harry Sidebottom
CRYPTOGRAPHY
THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE
Fred Piper and Sean Murphy
John Blair
DADA AND SURREALISM
ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
David Hopkins
ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
Darwin Jonathan Howard
ARCHITECTURE
Democracy Bernard Crick
Andrew Ballantyne
DESCARTES Tom Sorell
ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
DRUGS Leslie Iversen
ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
THE EARTH Martin Redfern
ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch
THE HISTORY OF
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin
BRITAIN Paul Langford
Atheism Julian Baggini
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball
Augustine Henry Chadwick
EMOTION Dylan Evans
BARTHES Jonathan Culler
EMPIRE Stephen Howe
THE BIBLE John Riches
ENGELS Terrell Carver
BRITISH POLITICS
Ethics Simon Blackburn
Anthony Wright
The European Union
Buddha Michael Carrithers
John Pinder
BUDDHISM Damien Keown
EVOLUTION
CAPITALISM James Fulcher
Brian and Deborah Charlesworth
THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe
FASCISM Kevin Passmore
CHOICE THEORY
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Michael Allingham
William Doyle
CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson
FREE WILL Thomas Pink
CLASSICS Mary Beard and
Freud Anthony Storr
John Henderson
Galileo Stillman Drake
Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh
PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close
GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger
paul E. P. Sanders
HEGEL Peter Singer
Philosophy Edward Craig
HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson
Samir Okasha
HINDUISM Kim Knott
PLATO Julia Annas
HISTORY John H. Arnold
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue
HOBBES Richard Tuck
POSTCOLONIALISM
HUME A. J. Ayer
Robert Young
IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden
POSTMODERNISM
Indian Philosophy
Christopher Butler
Sue Hamilton
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Intelligence Ian J. Deary
Catherine Belsey
ISLAM Malise Ruthven
PREHISTORY Chris Gosden
JUDAISM Norman Solomon
PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY
Jung Anthony Stevens
Catherine Osborne
KANT Roger Scruton
Psychology Gillian Butler and
KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner
Freda McManus
THE KORAN Michael Cook
QUANTUM THEORY
LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews
John Polkinghorne
LITERARY THEORY
ROMAN BRITAIN
Jonathan Culler
Peter Salway
LOCKE John Dunn
ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
LOGIC Graham Priest
RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
MACHIAVELLI
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Quentin Skinner
Catriona Kelly
MARX Peter Singer
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MATHEMATICS
S. A. Smith
Timothy Gowers
SCHIZOPHRENIA
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone
John Gillingham and
SCHOPENHAUER
Ralph A. Griffiths
Christopher Janaway
MODERN IRELAND
SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer
Senia Pasěta
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
MOLECULES Philip Ball
ANTHROPOLOGY
MUSIC Nicholas Cook
John Monaghan and Peter Just
Myth Robert Segal
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce
NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
Socrates C. C. W. Taylor
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
SPINOZA Roger Scruton
BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and
STUART BRITAIN
H. C. G. Matthew
John Morrill
NORTHERN IRELAND
TERRORISM Charles Townshend
Marc Mulholland
THEOLOGY David F. Ford
Available soon:
THE TUDORS John Guy
FUNDAMENTALISM
TWENTIETH-CENTURY
Malise Ruthven
BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan
Habermas Gordon Finlayson
Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling
HIROSHIMA B. R. Tomlinson
WORLD
Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide.
The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology.
Very Short Introductions available now:
ANARCHISM Colin Ward
CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw
THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Continental Philosophy
Julia Annas
Simon Critchley
ANCIENT WARFARE
COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
Harry Sidebottom
CRYPTOGRAPHY
THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE
Fred Piper and Sean Murphy
John Blair
DADA AND SURREALISM
ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
David Hopkins
ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
Darwin Jonathan Howard
ARCHITECTURE
Democracy Bernard Crick
Andrew Ballantyne
DESCARTES Tom Sorell
ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
DRUGS Leslie Iversen
ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
THE EARTH Martin Redfern
ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch
THE HISTORY OF
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin
BRITAIN Paul Langford
Atheism Julian Baggini
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball
Augustine Henry Chadwick
EMOTION Dylan Evans
BARTHES Jonathan Culler
EMPIRE Stephen Howe
THE BIBLE John Riches
ENGELS Terrell Carver
BRITISH POLITICS
Ethics Simon Blackburn
Anthony Wright
The European Union
Buddha Michael Carrithers
John Pinder
BUDDHISM Damien Keown
EVOLUTION
CAPITALISM James Fulcher
Brian and Deborah Charlesworth
THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe
FASCISM Kevin Passmore
CHOICE THEORY
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Michael Allingham
William Doyle
CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson
FREE WILL Thomas Pink
CLASSICS Mary Beard and
Freud Anthony Storr
John Henderson
Galileo Stillman Drake
Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh
PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close
GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger
paul E. P. Sanders
HEGEL Peter Singer
Philosophy Edward Craig
HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson
Samir Okasha
HINDUISM Kim Knott
PLATO Julia Annas
HISTORY John H. Arnold
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue
HOBBES Richard Tuck
POSTCOLONIALISM
HUME A. J. Ayer
Robert Young
IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden
POSTMODERNISM
Indian Philosophy
Christopher Butler
Sue Hamilton
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Intelligence Ian J. Deary
Catherine Belsey
ISLAM Malise Ruthven
PREHISTORY Chris Gosden
JUDAISM Norman Solomon
PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY
Jung Anthony Stevens
Catherine Osborne
KANT Roger Scruton
Psychology Gillian Butler and
KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner
Freda McManus
THE KORAN Michael Cook
QUANTUM THEORY
LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews
John Polkinghorne
LITERARY THEORY
ROMAN BRITAIN
Jonathan Culler
Peter Salway
LOCKE John Dunn
ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
LOGIC Graham Priest
RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
MACHIAVELLI
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Quentin Skinner
Catriona Kelly
MARX Peter Singer
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MATHEMATICS
S. A. Smith
Timothy Gowers
SCHIZOPHRENIA
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone
John Gillingham and
SCHOPENHAUER
Ralph A. Griffiths
Christopher Janaway
MODERN IRELAND
SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer
Senia Pasěta
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
MOLECULES Philip Ball
ANTHROPOLOGY
MUSIC Nicholas Cook
John Monaghan and Peter Just
Myth Robert Segal
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce
NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
Socrates C. C. W. Taylor
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
SPINOZA Roger Scruton
BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and
STUART BRITAIN
H. C. G. Matthew
John Morrill
NORTHERN IRELAND
TERRORISM Charles Townshend
Marc Mulholland
THEOLOGY David F. Ford
Available soon:
THE TUDORS John Guy
FUNDAMENTALISM
TWENTIETH-CENTURY
Malise Ruthven
BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan
Habermas Gordon Finlayson
Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling
HIROSHIMA B. R. Tomlinson
WORLD
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