The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

Sun Tzu, Shang Yang

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• Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book are the product of a t... Lees meer

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

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• Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can... Lees meer

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

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• The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusin... Lees meer

On War

Carl Von Clausewitz

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• Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written... Lees meer

Njal's Saga

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• Translated by Lee M. Hollander, with an Introduction by Thorsteinn Gylfason. Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's ... Lees meer

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

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• Translated with Notes by Arthur Waley. With an Introduction by Robert Wilkinson. Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of ... Lees meer

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

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• With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace. 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of n... Lees meer

Le Morte Darthur

Thomas Malory

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• With an Introduction by Helen Moore. The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories ... Lees meer

Histories

Herodotus

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• Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories ar... Lees meer

Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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• Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his lif... Lees meer

London Labour and the London Poor

Henry Mayhew

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• With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the class... Lees meer

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

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• Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw. Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Gr... Lees meer

The Social Contract

Jean-Jaques Rousseau

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• With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political so... Lees meer

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

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• With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been rec... Lees meer

Key Philosophical Writings

Rene Descartes

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• Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of ... Lees meer

Walden & Civil Obedience

Henry David Thoreau

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• No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much of wh... Lees meer

The Essential Philosophical Works

David Hume

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• With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in Engli... Lees meer

Ethics

Benedict de Spinoza

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• Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grin... Lees meer

Capital

Karl Marx

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• Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-cla... Lees meer

The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin

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• With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impr... Lees meer

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

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• Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams , has never cease... Lees meer

Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

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• Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the W... Lees meer

The Descent of Man

Charles Darwin

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• In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species finding in the traits and instincts of animals the... Lees meer

The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

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• Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including... Lees meer