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Author: J. W. N. WatkinsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hutchinson University Library, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded spine. Light foxing on...

One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Plastic sheet covering dust jacket, pencil underliningThis academic work meticulously examines Thomas Hobbes's foundational political philosophy,...

This book gives a comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes' thought in the light of the most important research currently being produced by historians, philosophers, and political scientists. His life and...

A Gilded Age Retelling of My Fair Lady Arriving into English society from the drawing rooms of New York, Miss Florence Wakechild desires nothing less than the marriage her father...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: some glue residue on the endpapers; pages can have minimal notes and/or underlining in grey leadAt the turbulent crossroads of...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century English political thought stands Thomas Hobbes — a figure so radical,...

A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how...

According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from...

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This collection features 16 monumental works of non-fiction, encompassing philosophy, politics, autobiography, and practical advice. Spanning over two millennia, from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Marcus Aurelius to the...

The book titled Hume by the author Nicholas Phillipson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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The mind-body problem is widely seen as the great remaining challenge to science and philosophy. Why and how did matter evolve to take on the quality of mind? The author...

This omnibus edition includes Revenge of the Baby-Sat and Scientific Progress Goes Boink as well as other cartoons, integrated throughout. Bill Watterson won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist...

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: This book is about luckÐor more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against...

Penguin Classics relaunch The work of a young novelist at the height of his powers, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is one of the touchstones of the English comic novel. Around the central...

Author: John Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in...

By the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, by the National Cartoonists' Society. The book contains material taken from Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under the Bed...

I went down into Yorkshire before I began this book, in very severe winter time which is pretty faithfully described herein. As I wanted to see a schoolmaster or two,...

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Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Thrust into the unforgiving machinery of Victorian London following...

A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world...

Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...

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Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor foxing to block, sun-faded spine and previous owner's name in FEP.The Illustrated...

A collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. The author won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and has also illustrated Calvin and Hobbes, Something Under the...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Ardis Books, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCharles Dickens’s Complete Works: Nicholas Nickleby II continues the compelling saga of a young man’s journey through the often-cruel...

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby becomes a schoolteacher in a boys' school in Yorkshire to support his family. There he sees injustices and cruelty and stands up...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew...

George Mann's Newbury & Hobbes steampunk series concludes as our special agent heroes discover a plot of empire-changing proportions. A plot to kill a queen. A chance to save the...

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The groundbreaking idea that some systems actually benefit from shocks, and how to expose ourselves to them - now in paperback In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and...

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A new collection of comic cartoons starring the Calvin and Hobbes pair. Bill Watterson won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

R. J. Hollingdale's selection structures Nietzsche's writings according to theme to give the fullest possible sense of the depth and scope of this extraordinary writer. The literary career of Friedrich...

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Author: Charles DickensFormat: Leather / fine binding, 152mm x 236mm, 1496 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2010Brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the turbulent intellectual and political landscape of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century,...

A fascinating new biography of the man behind James Bond, by an award-winning biographer and novelist who has unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. A fresh portrait of the man...