The Basics
About the Book Series
The Basics is a highly successful series of accessible guidebooks which provide an overview of the fundamental principles of a subject area in a jargon-free and undaunting format.
Intended for students approaching a subject for the first time, the books both introduce the essentials of a subject and provide an ideal springboard for further study. With over 50 titles spanning subjects from Artificial Intelligence to Women’s Studies, The Basics are an ideal starting point for students seeking to understand a subject area.
Each text comes with recommendations for further study and gradually introduces the complexities and nuances within a subject.
Criminology: The Basics
4th Edition
By Sandra Walklate
October 24, 2024
The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes and concerns of this compelling and complex subject and gives an overview of the main theoretical and conceptual approaches to crime and justice. Topics ...
Biopsychology: The Basics
1st Edition
By Philip Winn, Madeleine Grealy
October 16, 2024
Biopsychology: The Basics is a concise, accessible and illuminating introduction to the field of biopsychology. The book explores what psychology is in the broadest sense and how combining it with a biological perspective offers a deeper understanding of behavior and mental life. Key topics include...
BDSM and Kink: The Basics
1st Edition
By Stefani Goerlich, Elyssa Helfer
October 14, 2024
BDSM and Kink: The Basics provides an essential overview of knowledge that every clinician should have about alternative sexualities. In an accessible, user-friendly format, the authors offer a high-level yet comprehensive introduction to the world of bondage and discipline, dominance and ...
Interviewing: The Basics
1st Edition
By Mark Holton
October 01, 2024
This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way. This is achieved not by providing an exhaustive ‘how-to’ guide but in introducing researchers to the interview technique and using examples of ‘best practice’ from across the social...
Political Philosophy: The Basics
1st Edition
By Bas van der Vossen
October 01, 2024
This book offers an introduction to political philosophy, the study of the role of government in our lives. It discusses what political philosophy is about, its most important and enduring questions, and how to do political philosophy well. Throughout, the book discusses issues such as: •&...
Stoic Ethics: The Basics
1st Edition
By Christopher Gill, Brittany Polat
August 26, 2024
At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Stoic ethics for students and for readers interested in Stoic life-guidance. It combines an explanation of the main philosophical ideas in ancient Stoic ethics by Christopher Gill with discussion of ...
Couple Therapy: The Basics
1st Edition
By Molly Ludlam
August 08, 2024
Couple Therapy: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to couple therapy. Taking both a general overview and a psychoanalytic focus, it addresses the basic questions that both couples and those interested in becoming couple therapists can expect to ask. Using jargon-light language, this ...
Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics
1st Edition
By Megan Burke
August 08, 2024
Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the life, work and ground-breaking ideas of author, philosopher, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir. The book offers readers “the basics” of Beauvoir, affording new and continuing readers a guide to her works and ideas. The book ...
Philosophy of Language: The Basics
1st Edition
By Ethan Nowak
July 31, 2024
This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the idea that language is a system that allows us to exchange information with each other, and the second four chapters explore the idea that language...
Secularism: The Basics
2nd Edition
By Jacques Berlinerblau
July 22, 2024
Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe. In this lively and lucid book, Jacques Berlinerblau addresses why secularism is defined in so many ways and why it so ignites people’s passions. In ...
Therapy: The Basics
1st Edition
By sissy lykou
July 09, 2024
Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches. It attempts to demystify and de-stigmatise therapy by answering some common questions posed by prospective clients. lykou presents an accessible overview of psychotherapy and counselling, mapping ...
Literary Theory: The Basics
4th Edition
By Hans Bertens
June 28, 2024
Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism. Literary Theory: The ...