Humanities - Page 96

Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-Envisioning Planetary Happiness

Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the tar...

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Buddhism: A Journey Through History

One of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across th...

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Maria Theresa: Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment

A major new biography of Maria Theresa, the formidable Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa was the single...

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The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe

A journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a...

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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

To be a bookseller or librarian . . .You have to play detective.Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker....

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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse

The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; priestesses and warriors; teenage girls, conc...

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Roman Soldier versus Dacian Warrior: Dacian Wars AD 85–106

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the Roman and Dacian fighting men who clashed in three bloody...

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The Strategists: How War Made Them and How They Made war

In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged...

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Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

‘Insightful and breathtaking’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of Sapiens‘Bold and sweeping’ PE...

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Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

The twentieth anniversary edition of Caroline Elkins’s Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé, now with a new...

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The House by the Lake

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF...

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The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts

A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manu...

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Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor

The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Fr...

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Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science

A bold reimagining of the life and work of Archimedes of Syracuse. Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, T...

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Plato: A Civic Life

Chronicles Plato’s thought through the lens of his turbulent life. Plato is a key figure from t...