Richard Rorty is one of the provocative figures in philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings…

The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry…

Explains the moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, war and other life-or-death…

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same…

This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from…

Presents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of…

Based on a major three-year research project, this book makes clear how planners have frequently failed to understand real…

When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions…

A portrait of Robert Mugabe, a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent.…

• Rok vydání 1993

Although best remembered for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction…

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What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? This title provides an…

Drawing on such writers and thinkers as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, this title explores how our perception of love…

When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected…

Challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. This work revives the…

• Čeština

Explains how the far-reaching discoveries of physics are revolutionizing our world and, in particular, throwing light on…

Explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means Riding to work in the morning has become commonplace. The…

• Rok vydání 2011

A new edition of the classic Spanish guide on achieving personal success, from the 17th century. Tiskovina 9780141442457…

Die gegenwärtigen Umweltprobleme sind lösbar, wenn wir das Verständnis über die Auswirkungen unseres Konsums schärfen und…

• Rok vydání 2014

"Compelling, essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy." -- M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions…

St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity. Written as a defence of the…

Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number…

Happiness is good for your health. Learn how to nurture yours. During his 20 years as a GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee has seen…

• Rok vydání 2003

This book gathers all seven of the dramas of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting…

A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy,…

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• Rok vydání 2020

'Pure entertainment' Guardian best sports books of 2019______Jason Plato should not be a professional racing driver.Yet…

• Rok vydání 2024

Der Bestseller jetzt im Paperback - »'Fabelhafte Rebellen'« ist eine Möglichkeit, die deutsche Geistesgeschichte zum Tanzen…

• Rok vydání 2009

An angry, funny, smart and contentious book that looks behind the friendly face of the well-meaning liberal, and turns our…

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organising principle for the entire universe. Kniha…

In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical…

Brings together the research and imaginative engagement to bring us as close as we can hope to get to the tumultuous…

• Rok vydání 2012

In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing…

• Rok vydání 2008

Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of…

Between the age of two and five, a little girl nicknamed 'the Piggle' - disturbed by the birth of a younger sister - visited…

• Rok vydání 2014

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas…

"The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology" has become a byword for demystifying the language of this complex subject. Now fully…

Explores how consciousness has evolved, and how a modern understanding of the human mind is radically different from…

• Rok vydání 2023

The world has reopened and so has the Poetry Pharmacy: the powerful final instalment in the hugely beloved seriesAfter the…

• Rok vydání 2004

Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century…

Giambattista Vico's New Science is gradually being re-established as one of the most significant humanist achievements since…

Offers a collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms. This book brings together all the classic…

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he…

An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation,…