Text and cartoon illustrations introduce critical theories, which examine and critique aspects of society and culture, and discusses theories from deconstructionists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, and others.
An overview of the philosophy of empiricism featuring cartoon illustrations, which covers the ideas of such figures as John Locke, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and Alfred Jules Ayer, as well as empiricism's critics.
Uses text and cartoon-style illustrations to introduce the history and theories of Aesthetics, the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of experience through perceptions, feelings, and emotions.
Text and comic-style illustrations present the concept of consciousness and discuss the efforts being made to understand it in both scientific and philosophical terms.
Text and cartoon illustrations provide an introduction to linguistics, covering the history of the discipline, significant individuals and developments, schools of thought, and other related topics.
"Explores what identical twins can teach us about the epigenetic effects of our environment, why certain genes are 'switched on' or off at varous stages of embryonic development, and how scientists have reversed the specializations of cells to clone frogs from a single gut cell"--Back cover.
