The Oxford India Short Introductions is a wonderful idea ... Its latest in the series, Surrogacy, provides some key insights into the highly controversial subject. It does meander to get to ...

It’s the latest title in Oxford’s “Very Short Introduction” series, which now consists of more than 500 chapbooks that span the breadth of human knowledge from “Accounting” to ...

A key feature that is not immediately obvious is the introduction of Bayes’ Theorem, which proposes that believing a hypothesis depends not just on the quality of the evidence but our prior beliefs ...

While the idea behind the “Short Cuts” series is sound, this introduction to film studies never seems to know what it wants to be, and what kind of introduction it wants to deliver. The series ...