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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Charles Dickens remains ? 200 years after his birth ? arguably Britain?s most successful writer. Works such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist have amused and inspired readers in all langua...

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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time ...

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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Nicknamed ?The Anarchy'' for its unprecedented levels of chaos and disorder, the succession crisis that followed the death of King Henry I in 1135 resulted in England''s first civil war.?The Me...

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A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkey's war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy.British business intelligence operative Iain Black is caught up in the car-bombing of a hotel in Southern Turkey while investigating a murky Lebanese ...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Rousseau in just one hour.In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility ? his arguments are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet whilst his...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Foucault in just one hour.The French philosopher Michel Foucault set about his task rather like a historian. After painstaking research, he concluded that knowledge and ...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Kant in just one hour.Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never travelled farther than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. ...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Aristotle in just one hour.The philosophy of Aristotle dominated Western thought for over a thousand years. He had a mind that mastered all disciplines from mathemati...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Machiavelli in just one hour.Niccolò Machiavelli?s work remains misunderstood ? synonymous with wicked scheming and underhand politics ? nearly 350 years after his d...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Plato in just one hour.Plato is still seen by many as the greatest of all philosophers, inspiring many of the finest thinkers through the ages. Indeed, many see all l...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Descartes in just one hour.Descartes was the first modern philosopher. His scepticism led him to doubt all certainties, until finally he arrived at his famous maxim '...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Wittgenstein in just one hour.Ludwig Wittgenstein saw himself as ?the last philosopher?. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished. A superb logic...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Aquinas in just one hour.Thomas Aquinas remains the unacknowledged maestro of Scholasticism ? the static, cumulative philosophy of the medieval period. More a method of ...

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Following on from the incredible online success of the ?History In An Hour? titles- now there?s a Philosophy series for busy people, on the go. Listen to a succinct account of the Philosophy of Sartre in just one hour.Here is a concise, expert acc...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Confucius in just one hour.This is the perfect audiobook for people who are on the go and don?t have time to read philosophy books but wish they knew more about certain ...

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Philosophy for busy people who are always on the go but have always wanted to read up on certain figures in history that have shaped the way we think and live.Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Heidegger in just one hour.One of t...

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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of John Dewey in just one hour.In early twentieth-century America John Dewey was regarded as the foremost philosopher of his age ? no mean feat when his colleagues included the ...

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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Leibniz in just one hour.Leibniz was the first great German philosopher to produce an all-embracing philosophical system. He came to the remarkable conclusion that space and ...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Schopenhauer in just one hour.Arthur Schopenhauer, the ?philosopher of pessimism,? makes it clear that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. However, if...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Kierkegaard in just one hour.Although Kierkegaard was not a philosopher in the academic sense, he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn?t write about t...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hume in just one hour.Hume reduced philosophy to ruins, denying the existence of everything except our actual perceptions themselves. The world is nothing more than part...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hegel in just one hour.With Hegel philosophy became very difficult indeed ? even the great man himself conceded that ?only one man understands me, and even he does not.?...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Russell in just one hour.Bertrand Russell claimed to be driven by three great passions that drove his personal as well as his intellectual life: a longing for love, a qu...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Neitzsche in just one hour.Philosophy has always been dangerous for philosophers; Friedrich Nietzsche made it dangerous for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective mad...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Socrates in just one hour.Socrates is widely renowned as one of the founders of Western philosophy, despite the fact that his ideas survive largely through the work o...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Locke in just one hour.Much of Locke?s thought we would now regard as common sense. One of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers; his philosophy was to lay t...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Derrida in just one hour.Jacques Derrida?s ?deconstructionism? is nothing less than an effort to destroy all ?writing? by demonstrating its inevitable falsehood. The ...

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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Karl Marx in just one hour.Karl Marx''s philosophical critique of capitalism and his solution of communism directly led to the formation of the communist state in the...

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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of St Augustine in just one hour.Augustine?s Confessions details his personal struggles with morality, his spiritual crisis and the conversion to Christianity that ultimately le...

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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body o...

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