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Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs

Hackney, That Rose-Red...

The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and...

Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical...

What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstasy or experience road rage? Emotion, says...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point,...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended...

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era,...

One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from...

A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and...

One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an...

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