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.
