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With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill...

This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their...

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and...

Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain....

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

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The...

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

'The Master said, "If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil"'

The Analects are a collection of...

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

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses...

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

Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he...

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the...

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...

Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society....

Smith's The Wealth of Nations was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of...

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

Published shortly after...

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...

No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects -...

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective...

Mill John... , Bentham...

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

One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years...

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many 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...