# Very Short Introductions (was: Re: (urth) Generic Considerations) *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Apr 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Gareth Jelley *25 Apr 2003, 22:06* > From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" > Also good are the "...for Beginners" series from Writers and Artists. > Their "Kierkegaard for Beginners" that gave me entree to a thinker > whose prose I had previously found opaque and murky. They're somewhere > between books and info-comics: heavily (and humorously) illustrated, > and run about the same length as the OUP books Gareth mentions -- > heck, since I've never seen those, they may for all I know be British > editions of the same series. The OUP ones aren't illustrated like the 'Beginners', but they fill a similar gap. The other thing I like about them is their size - they slip nicely into a pocket, and look well-designed to boot... A US link with loads of the titles in the series: http://www.oup-usa.org/catalogs/general/series/Very_Short_Introductions.html and a UK one: No. No UK one, as the UK server is a bit sh*te Anon, G. --- ### Ed Cooke *28 Apr 2003, 10:32 · follows Gareth Jelley* The US "...for Beginners" series is not the same as the UK comic-style publications; the latter changed their name to "Introducing..." to make this clearer. More info on the latter at www.iconbooks.co.uk ---