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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141191263 | ISBN 10: 0141191260
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenc ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141043975 | ISBN 10: 0141043970
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023922 | ISBN 10: 0141023929
Voltaire's short, radical and iconoclastic essays on philosophical ideas from angels to idolatry, miracles to wickedness, make wry observations about human beliefs, and mock hypocrisy and extravagant piety - his call to his fellow men to act with rea ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023939 | ISBN 10: 0141023937
The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023991 | ISBN 10: 0141023996
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023847 | ISBN 10: 0141023848
Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly affected the ways in which we view human relationships ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023977 | ISBN 10: 014102397x
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simpl ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141018959 | ISBN 10: 014101895x
Ruskin's treatise on the need for individual artistic freedom remains powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today. ... more
View book details£4.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141018935 | ISBN 10: 0141018933
The work that changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition. ... more
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