Marx's Das Kapital

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‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,’ wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of the new capitalist worl …

The Last Crusade

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In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was t …

Long Live Hitch

Three of the most provocative and thought-provoking works of the great Christopher Hitchens, now available in one volume.*EBook Only Offer*

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World

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Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in.

Fire and Song

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It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. …

Philosophy

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The work of the great philosophers of the past is well known. From Aristotle and Plato to Kant and Wittgenstein, the answers to life’s biggest questions have been discussed and debated endlessly. But, …

From Fatwa to Jihad

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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2010The Number 1 international bestseller updated and reissued.Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses hel …

Plato's Republic

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Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect …

The Uses of Pessimism

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Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallaci …

A Short History of Western Thought

For the reader who has lain awake fretting over his tenuous grasp of the Aristotelian syllogism, or the ontological argument for the existence of God, or the nature of Kant’s categorical imperative; o …

Public Enemies

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‘Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we’re both utterly despicable individuals.’ (Houellebecq to BHL)In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French in …

The Message and the Book

Most people alive today (more than three-quarters of the world’s population) belong to one of the great religions. These faiths are built on the foundation-stones of key texts, to which people go for …

You Better Not Cry

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From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes a A wonderfully twisted collection of true Christmas stories.Of course you’ve eaten too much chocolate at Christmas, but have you …

How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

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The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is ‘the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It’s not about computers. It’s not about what …

The Great Transformation

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The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man’s harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it i …

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

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‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …