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161 produkter
Napoleon in Egypt
'The Greatest Glory'
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
187 kr
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Napoleon's attack on Egypt in 1798 was the first on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. With 335 ships and 40,000 men, it was the largest long-distance seaborne force the world had ever seen. Napoleon's assault was intended to be much more than a colonial adventure, …
Medici
Godfathers of the Renaissance
Häftad, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
176 kr
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A dazzling piece of Italian history of the infamous family that become one of the most powerful in Europe, weaving its history with Renaissance greats from Leonardo da Vinci to GalileoAgainst the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, The Medici is a …
Machiavelli: Philosophy in an Hour
Ljudbok, 2013
127 kr
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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 death. His philosophy of statecraft was scientific and …
Bertrand Russell: Philosophy in an Hour
Ljudbok, 2013
127 kr
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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 quest for knowledge and a heart-rending pity for human …
Kierkegaard: Philosophy in an Hour
Ljudbok, 2013
127 kr
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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 the world, he wrote about life – how we live and how …
J.S. Mill: Philosophy in an Hour
Ljudbok, 2013
127 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of J.S. Mill in just one hour.John Stuart Mill is remembered today as the leading exponent of Utilitarianism, arguing that our aim in life must be the attainment of pleasure and the minimizing of pain for the majority of …
Marx: Philosophy in an Hour
Ljudbok, 2013
127 kr
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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 Soviet Union. Whilst this great venture has now all …
Locke: Philosophy in an Hour
Ljudbok, 2013
89 kr
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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 the foundations of empiricism with its belief that …
Other Renaissance
From Copernicus to Shakespeare
Häftad, 2024
171 kr
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'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of the …
Florentines
From Dante to Galileo
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a …
Ten Cities that Led the World
From Ancient Foundations to Modern Powerhouses – a remarkable history
Häftad, 2023
147 kr
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'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times*** What makes a city great? How does one urban centre inspire the world while another fades into history? In Ten Cities That Led the World, Paul Strathern takes you on a thrilling journey through ten of …
Schopenhauer: Philosophy in an Hour
Ljudbok, 2013
124 kr
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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 the world is indifferent to our fate it doesn’t …
Marx: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
159 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 Soviet Union. Whilst this great venture has now all but …
Aristotle: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
61 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 mathematics to politics and had a continuing impact on every sphere …
Machiavelli: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
88 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 death. His philosophy of statecraft was scientific and highly …
Plato: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
54 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 later philosophy as nothing but attempts to answer the …
Descartes: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
17 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 'I think therefore I am'. He would also apply his rationalism …
Wittgenstein: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
17 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 logician, Wittgenstein distrusted language and sought to solve …
Nietzsche: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
17 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read 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 madness which was to ravage Europe throughout the first half …
Socrates: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
17 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 of his pupil Plato. Socrates’ dialectic – a method of …
Sartre: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Sartre in just one hour.Here is a concise, expert account of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life and philosophical ideas – entertainingly written and easy to understand. Also included are selections from Jean-Paul Sartre’s work, suggested …
Locke: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
75 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 the foundations of empiricism with its belief that our …
Rousseau: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
57 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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 contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior …
Kant: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
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17 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a 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. Appropriately, his philosophy strenuously denies that all …
Confucius: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Confucius in just one hour.Here is a concise, expert account of Confucious’s life and philosophical ideas – entertainingly written and easy to understand. Also included are selections from Confucious’s work, suggested further …
J.S. Mill: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
87 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of J.S. Mill in just one hour.John Stuart Mill is remembered today as the leading exponent of Utilitarianism, arguing that our aim in life must be the attainment of pleasure and the minimizing of pain for the majority of people. …
Hume: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
306 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read 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 of my consciousness. Yet we know the world remains, and …
Thomas Aquinas: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
17 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read 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 learning than pure theology, Aquinas’ Scholasticism saw …
Foucault: Philosophy in an Hour
E-bok, 2012
17 kr
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Philosophy for busy people. Read 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 power were intimately related throughout history. He …
