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Author: Augustus PeirceBinding: HardbackPublished: Shoestring Press, 1984Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is an autobiography of Augustus Baker Peirce, detailing his adventures in Australia. It...

Author: Mrs. Albert T. LeatherbeeBinding: HardbackPublished: Shoestring Press., 1924Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the remarkable adventures of an American captain navigating the Australian landscape...

'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in...

The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered...

Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and by others as a precursor...

Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition: Very good, a well-preserved copy of a scarce colonial imprint. Jacket: N/A (issued in printed paper wrappers, pre-dustjacket era). Page...

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...

Author: Lincoln Peirce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 If there's one word that Big Nate would use to describe himself, it would be E-P-I-C! And so is this slipcased,...

New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy....

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study...

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive - and witty - explorations of his aesthetic philosphy- 'The Decay...

This abridged edition, translated by Alastair Hannay, clearly reveals the compelling development of Kierkegaard's thought, while detailed notes and individual introductions to each section provide a detailed consideration of his...

Aristotle's influential treatise on the way to win arguments With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential...

New translation for Penguin Classics Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated...

The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year...

Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe 'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it was good...

In this brilliant collection of essays, part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles, Wilde wittily portrays the reversal of society's norms In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar...

A selection of Cicero's speeches and letters, which have had a profound effect on the Western liberal tradition of political thought Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero...

Available for the first time in Black Classics Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form...

A collection of Schopenhauer's powerful and inventive philosophy One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by...

A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign. Augustus is one of the great what-ifs of the 18th century. He could have...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of faith and reason stands George Berkeley, the eighteenth-century Irish philosopher whose radical...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the intersection of perception, reality, and the divine stands George Berkeley...

A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender...

Author: Peter PierceBinding: HardbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe Oxford Literary Guide To Australia presents a comprehensive overview of the rich...

Penguin Classics relaunch This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from...

Volume two of the acclaimed Oxford translation of Aristotle's works-now fully revised and expanded Originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and 1954, the Oxford translation of Aristotle is universally...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: yellowed, with small tears; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact. Three Philosophers stands as one of the most...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of reason and mythology, the Presocratic philosophers of ancient Greece dared to...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry the...

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...

Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today? There is in Athens a rather plain...

A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of eighteenth century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus is one of the...

Edition: later pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact. Few...

Aristotle's probing look at the fundamental questions of philosophy The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of...

Penguin Classics relaunch A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive...

One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, this project, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers This volume brings...

Here all in ONE book are the four classic accounts of the trial and death of Socrates!

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: damaged, chipped along spine and folds; moderate loss. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: faded and dulled spine. 18th Impression noted on...

Author: Gavin HendersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Russell, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsAugustus Hare In Italy chronicles the author's extensive travels through the diverse...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the century between the Restoration of Charles II and the dawn of the Romantic Age, English literature achieved a brilliance of wit, reason,...

Penguin Classics relaunch Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his...