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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,...

'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater...

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

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

Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek...

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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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,...

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...