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Diderot: The Virtue Of A Philosopher
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to be virtuous when you have dismantled the very foundations upon which virtue was built? Carol...
Discourse on Method and the Meditations
Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the...
Small Gods: Discworld: The Gods Collection
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: ''Hey, you!'' For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also...
Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)
The third Discworld novel, revamped for a new generation of readers... 'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd' The Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
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...
Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World
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The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century...
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau's masterworkWaldenis a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores...
Create Dangerously
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'To create today is to create...
Suppose a Sentence
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay -...
The Decay of Lying
'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...
Dear Dickhead: A Telegraph Best Novel of the Year
"The book of the moment" Sunday Times A Guardian Book of the Year "Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian "Despentes at her very best" New European "Full...
The Reader on the 6.27
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The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of
"Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path" Sunday Express It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel Verbier, a luxury...
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction by Colm T ibin At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons,...
A Discourse on Inequality
Penguin Classics relaunch. In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth,...
A Discourse On Method
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew texts in the Western canon have so radically reshaped the foundations of human thought as René Descartes' A Discourse...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
New selection with introduction, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions'...
Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
The thirteenth Discworld novel - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans. Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry...
Discourse on Method and Related Writings
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...
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
The Outsider
The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of...
The Death Of Abbé Didier
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Author: Richard GraysonBinding: HardbackPublished: VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Death Of Abbé Didier presents a compelling narrative centered around the mysterious demise of a...
To Deny Our Nothingness: Contemporary Images Of Man; A Survey And Critique Of Modern Thought
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Author: Maurice FriedmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz,, London, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a comprehensive examination of contemporary perspectives on humanity. It offers a critical...
Determinism: False And True: A Contribution To Modern Philosophy And Ethics
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed spine. Minor marks and specks on boards. Bumped...
Derrida and the End of History
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What does it mean to proclaim 'the end of history'? Francis Fukuyama created a considerable stir in 1992 by claiming that the fall of communism and the triumph of free...
Candide, or Optimism
A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose...
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot's last novel is a richly textured portrait of British society and the Jewish experience within it As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared...
The Man On Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus And The Affair That Divided France
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels visible. A landmark work of narrative history,...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio
Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham...
The Woman Destroyed
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Author: Simone de BeauvoirBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1969, First English EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe Woman Destroyed is a powerful exploration of women's existential struggles,...
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Rousseau's final work and meditation After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in...
Dinner with the Dissidents
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Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)
The eleventh Discworld novel. 'One taste, and you'll scour bookstores for more' Daily Mail The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of...
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2010 and the 2010 National Jewish Book Award for Biography At the end of September 1894 a charlady stole an undated and unsigned letter...
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine...
Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne & Beyond: Post-Impressionism from The Musee d...
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Civilization And Its Discontents
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Edition: Revised editionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears repaired with non-acidic tape. Jacket still structural One of the most penetrating and enduring works in the...
The Portable Enlightenment Reader
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing...
Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)
In the thirty-first Discworld novel the Discworld goes to war 'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original'...
On Disobedience And Other Essays
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when conformity threatens to extinguish the human spirit, Erich Fromm — one of the twentieth...
Civilization and Its Discontents
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We...