Big Ideas in Brief

With Big Ideas in Brief, Crofton provides an accessible tour of 200 key concepts that really matter. The ideas covered come from a wide range of subjects—Philosophy, Religion, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, the Arts, and Science.

A series of short, lively articles, accompanied by 100 illustrations, introduces a host of diverse topics, from Existentialism to Expressionism, from Consciousness to Constitutionalism, from Feminism to Free Trade, from Class to Cognitive Theory, from Reincarnation to Relativity—all explained simply and clearly.