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 Last Crusade

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NEW YORK TIMES’ NOTABLE BOOK OF 2011LONGLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZEIn 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, cross …

The Missionary Position

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Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world’s media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what makes Mother Teresa so divi …

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 …

God Is Not Great

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In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious fai …

The Twelve Days of Christmas

My dearest darling- That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you and thank you.Your deeply loving EmilyEveryone knows the ‘Twelve Days of Ch …

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 …

A Short History of Western Thought

A short, sharp and entertaining survey of the development of all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks to the present day.

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 …

Dante in Love

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With a biographer’s eye for detail and a novelist’s comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of literatur …

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 …

How Snow Falls

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In his first poetry collection for a decade, Craig Raine addresses themes of transformation in human nature and the natural world and confronts the quiddities of death and sex, memory and desire, comm …

Sod's Law

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To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake …

In Defence of the Enlightenment

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Tzvetan Todorov argues that although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living i …