<i>Big Ideas in Brief</i> provides an accessible and easily understood 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.<br><br>A series of short and lively articles comprising a maximum of 200 words, 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.