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On War
Av Carl von Clausewitz, Tom Griffith m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
88 kr
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Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot.On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies …
Faust
A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust
Av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 1999
88 kr
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Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams.Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between …
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Av T.E. Lawrence, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 1997
88 kr
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With an Introduction by Angus Calder.As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. …
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Av Friedrich Nietzsche, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 1997
88 kr
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Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey.This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche’s thought. ‘God is dead’, he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave …
Capital
Volumes One and Two
Häftad, 2013
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (7)
88 kr
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Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance then and …
Leviathan
Av Thomas Hobbes, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2014
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
88 kr
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With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, CambridgeSince its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil …
Wealth of Nations
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
88 kr
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and …
Pilgrim's Progress
Häftad, 1996
79 kr
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With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim.John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a …
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
with The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Av John Maynard Keynes, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2017
88 kr
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John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with AdamSmith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.The General Theory of Employment, …
Voyage of the Beagle
Av Charles Darwin, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 1997
88 kr
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With an Introduction by David Amigoni.Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to …
Interpretation of Dreams
Av Sigmund Freud, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 1997
88 kr
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Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson.Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900.Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to unlocking the human mind, a …
Divine Comedy
Av Dante Alighieri, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
81 kr
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Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess.Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a …
Social Contract
Av Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 1998
88 kr
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With an Introduction by Derek Matravers.In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each …
Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang
Av Sun Tzu, Shang Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
81 kr
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Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson.The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by …
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Second Treatise of Goverment
Häftad, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
71 kr
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Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth …
Iliad and the Odyssey
Av Homer, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2000
212 kr
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Translated by George Chapman, with Introductions by Jan Parker.Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every …
Holy Qur'an
Av Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2000
2,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
71 kr
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Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, …
Playbook for Entrepreneurial Education in Schools
Av Renae Jones, Margaret O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
321 kr
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Communist Manifesto
The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Av Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
71 kr
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With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow.A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the …
Ethics
Av Benedict de Spinoza, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2001
81 kr
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Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett.Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first …
Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil
Av Friedrich Nietzsche, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2015
81 kr
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Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering …
Essential Philosophical Works
Häftad, 2011
71 kr
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With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris.David Hume (1711–1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), published while Hume was …
Descent of Man
Av Charles Darwin, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
71 kr
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In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no …
Prophet
Av Kahlil Gibran, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 1997
79 kr
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The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon.His …
Book of Quests
Seven Scenarios Against the Sorcerer
Av Darren Driver, Tom Griffith m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
388 kr
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A set of linked adventures, The Book of Quests introduces you to The Realm and the insane schemes of the outlawed sorcerer, Jedakiah.Jedakiah has returned to The Realm. What are his schemes? Who are his allies? What malevolence has he planned? Who can challenge him, defeat him? Can The Realm even …
Contre le Chaos
Sept scenarios d'epee & sorcellerie pour Mythras
Av Tom Griffith, Keane Peterson m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
397 kr
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Sept aventures variees, alliant enquete, exploration et action.Le roi du Val attaque ferocement un de ses vassaux et delaisse sa frontiere nord, de plus en plus menacee par les barbares. Les ruelles et les salons de la capitale bruissent de murmures impies. De sinistres personnages sont prets a …
