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ALL THAT MATTERS GET TO THE HEART OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT TOPICS OF OUR TIME. PUBLISHED BY HODDER CONSUMER LEARNING
ALL THAT MATTERS
GET TO THE HEART OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT
TOPICS OF OUR TIME.
PUBLISHED BY HODDER CONSUMER LEARNING
ALL THE SUBJECTS THAT MATTER A fast-growing new series about the most current and interesting topics, from God to water and from cyber crime and warfare to animal rights.
ALL THAT MATTERS ABOUT THE SUBJECT In just 25,000 words and 160 pages, the authors get straight to the most interesting and relevant parts of a subject.
AUTHORS THAT MATTEROur authors are leading academics and public intellectuals, who are media-savvy and at the cutting-edge of their subject.
WHO ARE THEY FOR? • Students, as they approach a topic for the first time • Anyone who wants to be informed about things that matter
WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM?• FASTER – they get straight to the most interesting areas
of a topic
• BETTER – they are written by internationally renowned leading experts
• DEEPER – the unique ‘100 ideas’ section helps readers explore further
• DIGITAL – author videos and interviews will support every book and can be included in e-books and enhanced e-books
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Baggini looks at nine key questions, each one representing a branch of philosophy. For example, Epistemology – Is there such a thing as truth and how can we know it? Metaphysics – What is the fundamental nature of the universe? Together, these nine questions lead up to a scintillating final chapter looking at the greatest question of all – what is the meaning of life?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julian Baggini is an internationally renowned philosopher. He is the founder of “The Philosophers’ Magazine”, now available internationally in a digital edition. He was recently named in the Observer’s list of top public intellectuals in the UK.
PHILOSOPHY: ALL THAT MATTERS JULIAN BAGGINI
@All_ThatMatters/allthatmattersbookswww.allthatmattersbooks.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Younger (Glasgow, Scotland) is one of the world’s leading hydrogeologists, with 25 years of experience in the water industry worldwide. From 2001 Paul was a full Professor at Newcastle University in the UK and was Director of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability, which has water as one of its ten core themes. Currently he occupies the Rankine Chair of Engineering at Glasgow University, where he is re-deploying his skills and experience in the service of low-carbon energy, notably deep geothermal energy, underground coal gasification with carbon capture and storage, and hydropower. Paul is a Director of four companies engaged in the water and energy sectors, and is Chair of the Global Scientific Committee of the Planet Earth Institute.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The world’s population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown and declined due to discovery and exhaustion of their water sources, and now the West is at last catching on to the fact that abundance of water can no longer be taken for granted. For the last fifty years, wars have been fought over oil; for the next fifty, they may be fought over water (in fact, some local wars already have been). Remarkably, this new book is the first to bring together the ecological, geographical, political and scientific aspects of water. Its author, Professor Paul Younger, is one of the UK’s leading experts on water - a substance of which we consume 150 litres of a day, and in its bottled form are willing to pay more for than for petrol.
WATER: ALL THAT MATTERS PAUL YOUNGER
KEY FACTS
• 25,000 WORDS
• 160 PAGES
• 178x129MM (shortened b format)
• 10-20 TITLES PER YEAR
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pascale Engelmajer lectures in Buddhism at Bristol University. She has studied Buddhism across the world over twenty years, and written many important academic articles on the subject.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Most books about Buddhism just look at the life of Buddha, and how Buddhism is practised in the West today. Dr Engelmajer argues that this is a very limiting approach – she takes a more nuanced approach, looking at how Buddhism has developed differently in different parts of the globe, and how this has resulted in the many different ways in which Buddhism is practised today.
BUDDHISM: ALL THAT MATTERS PASCALE ENGELMAJER
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Professor Donna Dickenson is one of the world’s leading authorities in Bioethics. She won the ’International Spinoza Lens Award’ for her campaigning work. She has worked at Oxford and Yale, and is now based at Birkbeck College, London.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Professor Dickenson looks at the most challenging bioethical issues such as genetically modified food, cloning, and reproductive medicine. She considers why these issues are so controversial, and how a coherent philosophy can point to a way forward.
BIOETHICS: ALL THAT MATTERS DONNA DICKENSON
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Goodall is a highly regarded writer and campaigner on environmental issues. Educated at Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, he is one of the leading global voices on sustainability. He writes regularly for the Guardian, and on his widely followed blog ‘Carbon Commentary’.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sustainability argues that building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world has ever faced. Today’s generation has borrowed from the future by grabbing prosperity now and imposing the cost on the next generation. Goodall provides the first coherent new explanation of what sustainability actually is.
SUSTAINABILITY: ALL THAT MATTERS CHRIS GOODALL
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Vernon founded ‘The School of Life’ in London and is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University London. He is a well-known public philosopher who has written a number of successful books. He has PhDs in both theology and philosophy, and trained as a priest before becoming an agnostic.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Love may be all around us, but it often seems more as if our conceptions of love are all over the place. In this intelligent and fascinating new book, released in time for St Valentine’s Day, popular philosopher Mark Vernon argues that we have a tendency to approach questions about love as if there was a key to love that we must unlock. No more clearly is this shown than in our eagerness to learn about the science of love. Mark explores the ideas of neuroscientists and psychologists, who have become the modern-day oracles of love. But, he goes on, science is limited - we can learn more of love from Shakespeare than from Darwin.
LOVE: ALL THAT MATTERS MARK VERNON
@All_ThatMatters/allthatmattersbookswww.allthatmattersbooks.com
ISBN Title Author Pub Date Order
9781444155839 PHILOSOPHY JULIAN BAGGINI MAY 2012
9781444154627 MUHAMMAD ZIAUDDIN SARDAR MAY 2012
9781444155808 BIOETHICS DONNA DICKENSON JUN 2012
9781444156690 GOD MARK VERNON JUN 2012
9781444156720 JUDAISM KEITH KAHN-HARRIS AUG 2012
9781444174403 SUSTAINABILITY CHRIS GOODALL OCT 2012
9781444156812 WATER PAUL YOUNGER NOV 2012
9781444156751 LOVE MARK VERNON JAN 2013
9781444181869 HISTORY OF MEDICINE TIM HALL MAY 2013
9781444178845 ANIMAL RIGHTS MARK ROWLANDS MAY 2013
9781444189988 CYBER CRIME AND WARFARE PETER WARREN &
MICHAEL STREETER
JUL 2013
9781444157475 EUTHANASIA RICHARD HUXTABLE JUL 2013
9781444183382 SPACE EXPLORATION DAVID ASHCROFT JUL 2013
9781444190045 FUTURE ZIAUDDIN SARDAR JUL 2013
9781444187045 MODERN CHINA JONATHAN CLEMENTS AUG 2013
9781444174373 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY JOHANNA OKSALA AUG 2013
9781444183863 THE ROMANS JOHN MANLEY AUG 2013
9781444178876 DEMOCRACY STEVEN BELLER OCT 2013
9781444192971 THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM LORNA SELF DEC 2013
9781444163285 BUDDHISM PASCALE ENGELMAJER DEC 2013
9781444177961 CLASSICAL WORLD ALASTAIR BLANCHARD DEC 2013
9781444180664 FEMINISM SAMANTHA LYLE DEC 2013
9781444174342 HUMAN RIGHTS IVAN FISER DEC 2013
9781444193008 PLATO IEUAN WILLIAMS DEC 2013
9781444192940 THE RENAIISANCE MICHAEL HALVORSON APR 2014
9781444196108 FUTURE CITIES CAMILLA WEEN JUN 2014
9781444189926 SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES MIKE SCOTT JUN 2014
9781444186208 ANCIENT EGYPT BARRY J KEMP JUL 2014
978144415578` ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM WENDY KRISTIANASEN JUL 2014
9781473601253 MODERN KOREA ANDREW SALMON JUL 2014
9781471801624 ASTRONOMY PERCY SEYMOUR JUL 2014
9781444186208 ANCIENT EGYPT BARRY J KEMP JUL 2014
9781444163315 TERRORISM ANDREW SILKE JUL 2014
9781444190014 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KEN BOOTH AUG 2014
9781471801617 EMOTION SANDI MANN AUG 2014
9781471801594 ARCHAEOLOGY JOHN MANLEY OCT 2014
9781471801600 STRESS MICHAEL HYLAND NOV 2014
9781471804496 SEXUALITY LOUISE FOXCROFT NOV 2014
9781473601222 MODERN JAPAN JONATHAN CLEMENTS NOV 2014
9781473601734 MATHEMATICS MIKE ASKEW NOV 2014
9781444189957 SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES MIKE SCOTT DEC 2014
9781473601888 ENERGY PAUL YOUNGER JAN 2015
9781473601857 QUR’AN MERRYL WYN DAVIES JAN 2015
9781473601437 EXISTENTIALISM DAVID CERBONE JUN 2015
9781473601468 THE MEANING OF LIFE JAMES GARVEY JUL 2015
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