1001 Ideas That Shaped the Way We think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3000 years. Ranging from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Plato to today's cutting-edge thinkers, it ... read more

2014, Reprint. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w.

1936, Fourth edition, revised and expanded. A good set in blue cloth boards which are sunfaded to the spine. The front hinge of Vol 1 is weakened but holding well. Vol 1 has a previous owners name to the front free endpaper and light staining to the fore edge. Otherwise both volumes are clean and unmarked. Scans available if required.

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial... read more

1958, First edition. A near fine copy in a very good d/w with light edge wear and sunfading to the spine.

1972. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by sunfading to the spine. No d/w.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1942. First edition. A very good copy with a previous owners name to the front free endpaper. The d/w is only fair with spotting, short tears and a small amount of loss from the base of the spine.

Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant, t... read more

Griffith's first book that introduces the reader to the issue of the human condition and his biological explanation of it. It describes how the anger and selfis... read more

First edition. A very good copy in stiff card wraps with light sunfading to the spine.

Featuring Freud! Groucho Marx! Socrates! Lily Tomlin! Kierkegaard! Buddha! New Yorker cartoonists! Zombies! And of course, Heidegger! Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Tim... read more

How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thi... read more

A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his workKarl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was... read more

Mein Kampf ist eine politisch-ideologische Programmschrift Adolf Hitlers. Sie erschien in zwei Teilen. Hitler stellte darin seinen Werdegang zum Politiker und seine Weltanschauung dar. Das Buch enthält Hitlers Autobiografie, ist in der Hauptsache aber eine zweckgerichtete Kampf- und Prop... read more