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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)
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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 …
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Häftad, 1998
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73 kr
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in …
Wealth of Nations
Häftad, 2012
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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 …
Nicomachean Ethics
Av Aristotle
Häftad, 1996
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Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the …
Inferno
Häftad, 1998
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 …
Utopia
Av Thomas More
Häftad, 1997
81 kr
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With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose.More’s Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive toChristian teachings, who hold all …
Decameron
Häftad, 2004
88 kr
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A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain.1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate …
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, …
Origin of Species
Häftad, 1998
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
88 kr
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With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace.'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'.Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a …
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 …
Histories
Av Herodotus
Häftad, 1996
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
84 kr
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Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 …
Divine Comedy
Av Dante Alighieri, Tom Griffith
Häftad, 2009
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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 …
Symposium and The Death of Socrates
Av Plato
Häftad, 1997
71 kr
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With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith.In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was …
Tao Te Ching
Av Lao Tzu
Häftad, 1997
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71 kr
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Translated with Notes by Arthur Waley. With an Introduction by Robert Wilkinson.Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. …
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 …
Republic
Av Plato
Häftad, 1997
88 kr
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Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt.The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent …
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Second Treatise of Goverment
Häftad, 2014
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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 …
General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Häftad, 2012
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
69 kr
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Sigmund Freud’s controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The ‘Freudian slip’, the ‘Oedipus complex’, ‘childhood sexuality’, ‘libido’, ‘narcissism’ ‘penis envy’, the ‘castration complex’, the ‘id’, the ‘ego’ and the ‘superego’, ‘denial’, …
Prince
Häftad, 1993
79 kr
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Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in …
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, …
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 …
