The Hedgehog And The Fox. An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff, Paperback - Isaiah Berlin

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, GuardianIsaiah Berlin's cl...

Reducere. Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante's Monarchia and demonstrates the surprising r...

Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interv...

Reducere. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) is considered one of the great wisdom books of mankind. Since its metaphorical language is hard to unde...

Reducere. Very little is known about the Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus. His birth and death dates are based off of cross-referencing works...

Reducere. Contained here in this volume are two of the most influential works of philosophy ever written, Descartes' "Discourse on Method" and "Meditations o...

Reducere. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an at...

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. This title selects some of the best of his essays. It ...

One of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man's cultural achievements An Essay on Man is a...

Reducere. Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celeb...

Reducere. The Praise Of Folly: Translated By John Wilson With An Introduction By Mrs. P. S. Allen This book is a result of an effort made by us towards makin...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): R P Dunn-PattisonIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 172Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 150 x 225 x 1...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malth...

DescriptionFirst performed in 1882, Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is the story of the animosity that can befall someone whose actions, wh...

Reducere. The relationship between Christian symbols and those of ancient religions is storied and complex; in this illustrated work, surgeon and mythologist...

Reducere. A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; t...

'Anyone who has ever tried to do something well, anyone who has ever made personal sacrifices for an art or an idea, will have no trouble understan...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Partner Robert, MD (Nabarro Nathanson, London) BellIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literatur...

Reducere. Among Old Testament prophetic books no other equals Isaiah's brilliance of style and metaphor, its arresting vision of the Holy One of Israel and i...

Reducere. How We ThinkJohn Dewey No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought. So profuse and varied, indeed, is our use of these words that it...

DescriptionHistories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line....

Reducere. Alexander Pope was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English he...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

DescriptionNietzsche's The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a...

From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy and brutish Jack, each of the boys attempts to establish control as the reality- a...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten in 1759 by Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" provides much of the founda...

Reducere. Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" is the story of Humphrey van Weyden, an effete gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked when the San Francis...

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Sarah Coakley

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...

Reducere. Written in the course of his conversion to Catholicism, Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" ranks among the most decisive bre...

* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. This is the second of several bo...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten between 397 and 400 A.D., "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" is thought to be the first autobiography in Western civilization ...