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Stephen Trombley’s A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.No major representative of any …
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Providing a selected overview of Australia’s greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to the literature of Australia from the nineteenth century to the present. Australian C …
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And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the religions of the world at the time of Jesus: this is popular history at its best.At the time of Jesus’s birth, the world was in ferment. Across Eur …
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The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …
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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 …
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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 …
Three of the most provocative and thought-provoking works of the great Christopher Hitchens, now available in one volume.*EBook Only Offer*
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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.
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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. …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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