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A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li 'I myself am the subject of...

The range of topics and the careful consideration given to them by Montaigne is unsurpassed; he studies humanity through poetry, love and ectasy - but also through cannibalism and war-horses...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew writers in the Western canon have matched Michel de Montaigne's extraordinary capacity for honest, penetrating self-inquiry, and...

In his writing and his person, Michel de Montaigne embodied the Humanist ideal. He stands at the start of the French Renaissance in philosophy and literature. But what does Montaigne...

Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both...

Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to...

Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**Few thinkers have shaped the modern world as profoundly as Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu,...

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"Sources and Contexts" offers a rich collection of documents on the play's central themes-magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel...

A devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilisation, from one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century Society Must Be Defended is taken...

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...

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The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Often described as the father of...

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,...

Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are classics; his example continues to challenge and...

Edition: Bilingual EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. A landmark work from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets, It Depends:...

Author: Lord Montagu Of BeaulieuBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical analysis chronicles the fascinating transformation of Europe's noble classes, focusing intently...

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Submission is the highly-anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling French writer Michel Houellebecq As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites- Marine Le Pen of...

Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...

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Edition: silver jubilee ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: gift inscription. Usual shelf-wear. Few memoirs have captivated the world with...

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The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings...

Author: Charles De TolnayBinding: HardbackPublished: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative volume chronicles the extraordinary life and artistic achievements...

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Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pelerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von...

Author: Spike Milligan, Jack HobbsBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph., 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed page edges.This uproarious memoir chronicles Spike Milligan's experiences during World War II, offering...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most audacious deception operations of the Second World War comes to life in I Was Monty's Double, the remarkable true account...

Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of...

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A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him into conflict with his Church and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of wartime absurdity, Spike Milligan chronicles the Italian campaign of World War II through...

Author: Stephen CoulterBinding: HardbackPublished: JONATHAN CAPE, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsDamned Shall Be Desire: The Passionate Life Of Guy De Maupassant chronicles the tumultuous existence of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the front lines of North Africa to the chaotic comedy of wartime Italy, Spike Milligan's Monty: His...

No historical figure of 18th-century England has been more grossly misrepresented than the inventor of our favourite fast food. The stereotype is well known: an unscrupulous man of pleasure whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of one of history's most towering and controversial figures, Robert Mengin's No Laurels for de...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the glittering yet treacherous court of Louis XIV, where ambition and survival were inextricably entwined, one of history's most scandalous episodes unfolded —...

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