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

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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• With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism,... 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

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T E Lawrence

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• With an Introduction by Angus Calder. As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ' Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statem... Lees meer

Faust

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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• Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who ... 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

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

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• With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrat... Lees meer

Symposium and the Death of Socrates

Plato

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• With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith. In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, un... Lees meer

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 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

The Inferno

Dante Alighieri

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• Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the ... 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 Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer

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• Translated by George Chapman, with Introductions by Jan Parker. Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening... 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

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke

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• Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his tim... Lees meer

The Holy Qur'an

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• Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran ) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was reveal... Lees meer

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

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• Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the... Lees meer

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

John Maynard Keynes

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• John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Ka... 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

Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

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• With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better... 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 Concise Pepys

Samuel Pepys

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• Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subse... Lees meer

The Republic

Plato

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• Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced West... Lees meer

Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich 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