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A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, this highly-visual, full-colour hardback provides you with the key information you would find in a psychology course in an easily digestible format.Filled with flow charts, infographics, and suggestions for further reading, this book makes understanding the human mind easier than ever. Including the theories of Francis Galton, Sigmund Freud, Ivan Pavlov, and many more, it covers the whole range of psychological research.By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions such as:• How do we learn?• Do groups make better decisions than individuals?• How do we study the living brain?• What are the components of personality?ABOUT THE SERIES: Knowledge 101 brings together highly visual, hardback introductions to many intriguing disciplines, featuring reader-friendly text, spectacular images, and informative diagrams to make the learning experience easier than ever.

Written by former NASA engineer Dr David Baker, this full-colour hardback guide provides a rich overview of electrical and mechanical engineering, perfect for students and enthusiasts alike. Covering Newtonian mechanics, nuclear engineering, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and more, this essential guide brings clarity to complex ideas. Inside you will discover the history of this far-reaching subject as well as the new developments and challenges of the future. The accessible text is accompanied by helpful diagrams, photographs, further reading, and easily digestible features, making getting to grips with the subject as easy as ever.By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions such as:• How do materials affect function?• What is reliability?• How did we get to the Moon?• What is nuclear engineering? ABOUT THE SERIES: Knowledge 101 brings together highly visual, hardback introductions to many intriguing disciplines, featuring reader-friendly text, spectacular images, and informative diagrams to make the learning experience easier than ever.

This highly-visual, full-colour guide is an essential overview of the history and ideas of philosophy, perfect for students and enthusiasts alike. From Enlightenment philosophy to metaphysics, and from Aristotle to Nietzsche, this hardback guide provides you with everything you need to know about the fundamentals of philosophy. Concepts are explained in accessible, jargon-free terms, with practical examples and useful diagrams. With mind maps for each chapter, definition boxes, easily digestible features on the history of philosophy and suggestions for further reading, learning philosophy has never been easier.By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions like: • What is truth? • What can I really know? • How can I live a moral life? • Do I have free will?ABOUT THE SERIES: Knowledge 101 brings together highly visual, hardback introductions to many intriguing disciplines, featuring reader-friendly text, spectacular images, and informative diagrams to make the learning experience easier than ever.

Whether searching for extra-terrestrial life, managing the effects of space weather or learning about dark matter, the study astrophysics has profound implications for us all. This digestible, full-colour guide covers the key concepts of this vast topic, bringing clarity to some of the great mysteries of space.These include: • The theory of relativity • Cosmic background radiation• The evolution of stars• The formation of the solar system • The nature of exoplanets• Space weather systemsFilled with helpful diagrams and simple summaries, Knowledge in a Nutshell: Astrophysics is perfect for the non-expert, taking the complexities of space science and making them tangible.ABOUT THE SERIES: Knowledge 101 brings together highly visual, hardback introductions to many intriguing disciplines, featuring reader-friendly text, spectacular images, and informative diagrams to make the learning experience easier than ever.

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, this highly-visual, full-colour hardback provides you with the key information you would find on a Jungian psychology course in an easily digestible format.Filled with flow charts, infographics and suggestions for further reading, this book makes understanding the ideas of Carl Jung easier than ever. Carl Jung revolutionised the way we approached the human psyche, drawing on Eastern mysticism, dream analysis and observation of his patients to create a new model of the mind.By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions such as:• what is the difference between introversion and extraversion?• how does the collective unconscious shape us?• what are the anima and animus?• how can we conduct shadow work to better ourselves?ABOUT THE SERIES: Knowledge 101 brings together highly visual, hardback introductions to many intriguing disciplines, featuring reader-friendly text, spectacular images and informative diagrams to make the learning experience easier than ever.

This highly-visual, full-colour hardback provides a rich and accessible overview of art history, perfect for students and enthusiasts alike. Written by expert art historian John Finlay, Art History 101 is presented in an attractive hardback format, featuring iconic works of art through the ages. With timelines, feature spreads and information boxes, readers will quickly get to grips with the fundamentals of art and its fascinating evolution across history. Learn to distinguish Impressionism from Post-Impressionism, analyse a painting's brush strokes, discover the influences of Pablo Picasso and much more. • 'Ways of Seeing': Introduction to the Visual Analysis of the Arts • The Italian Renaissance • Seventeenth-Century Spanish Art: The Golden Age • Theory of Art: The Fundamentals of Modern Art Theory • Modernism: Art in France, 1906-1936 ABOUT THE SERIES: Knowledge 101 brings together highly visual, hardback introductions to many intriguing disciplines, featuring reader-friendly text, spectacular images, and informative diagrams to make the learning experience easier than ever.