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'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,...

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 award-winning, bestselling New York Mapguide by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the market

Whether you're...

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...

Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the...

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...

Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime...

A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A Year In Provence.

Skulking...

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

This book will explain what madness is, to show that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can...

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

Having lived in France, Italy, the Greek islands and Egypt, Elizabeth David has perfected the art of Mediterranean cooking.

In...