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Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political...

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading...

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The...

The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of...

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today...

Chase Owen, Никерсон...

The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film,...

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the...

'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell

Published shortly after...

Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and...

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology...

'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George Orwell

In 1844, Charles Dickens took a...

Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life

This landmark...

Mill John... , Bentham...

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of...

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of...

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose,...

One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the...

In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer...

Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics...

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic...

The Green Flag stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years...

"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins In this...

Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady

In June 1983 Margaret...

Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment. But this denies the heart of our being:...

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's...

'A reference bible... inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - Daily Mail Jane Grigson's...

Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection...

Little... , Silber...

The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered...

A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to...