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

Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...

'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...

The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was...

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...

A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable...

'Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible'

Whether or not Lao Tzu was a historical figure is uncertain, but...

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

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness...

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

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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...

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...

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we...

'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...

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

One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of...

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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...

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

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,...