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  • The Popular Revolutions of the Late Middle Ages

    by Michel Mollat, Philippe Wolff ...
    Translated by A.L. Lytton-Sells ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
    This book, first published in 1973, examines the period when wars, famines and epidemics bred widespread conflicts, culminating in the revolutionary years of 1378–82 with the Florentine ‘Ciompi’, revolts in Flanders and France and the risings among English labourers. The analysis ends with the Hussite crisis which gave the movement a new aspect. The troubles were varied, with hunger riots in ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo

    by Philipp Wolf ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence, along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels, which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English.Death, in its close ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    The Calamitous 14th Century

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August*Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street JournalThe fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world ... Read more

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  • Breakfast with Socrates

    An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

    by Robert Rowland Smith ...
    What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? ... Read more

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  • What's It All About?

    Philosophy & the Meaning of Life

    by Julian Baggini ...
    "Secular-minded readers seeking an alternative to The Purpose-Driven Life have an excellent starting point here."— Publishers WeeklyFor readers who are serious about confronting the big issues in life—but are turned off by books which deal with them through religion, spirituality, or psychobabble, this is an honest, intelligent discussion by a philosopher that doesn't hide from the difficulties or ... Read more

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  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    **'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics**As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, ... Read more

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  • The Science Delusion

    Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers

    by Curtis White ...
    One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer, you’re likely to become a subject of ... Read more

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  • The Expulsion of the Other

    Society, Perception and Communication Today

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and ... Read more

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  • The Parallax View

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in ... Read more

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  • Daily Life in Ancient Rome - The People and the City at the Height of the Empire

    by Jerome Carcopino ...
    Step back in time to the bustling heart of the Roman Empire with Jerome Carcopino's "Daily Life in Ancient Rome." This classic work offers an unparalleled glimpse into the intricacies of Roman society at its zenith, vividly detailing the lives of emperors, senators, merchants, and the enslaved alike. Carcopino meticulously reconstructs the rhythms of daily existence, from the morning rituals in ... Read more

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  • The Palliative Society

    Pain Today

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is ... Read more

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  • The Complete Story of Civilization

    Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation

    by Will Durant ...
    The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. This eleven volume set includes: Volume One: Our Oriental Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece; Volume Three: Caesar and Christ; Volume Four: The Age of Faith; Volume Five: The Renaissance; Volume Six: The Reformation; Volume Seven: ... Read more

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