Non Fiction Classics

Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.Thias edition...

Eusebius - The History of the Church - HB ( Splicased Folio Society Edition) - 2012

Hardcover, a 2012, reprint by Folio of the 1965 edition, translated by G.A Williamson.  Condition, a solid copy, but with a small bump to the lower corner, grey tan cloth covers, titles in black and...

Daniel Corkery - The Hidden Ireland : A study of Gaelic Munster in the 18th Century - PB -1970 (Originally 1924)

Although modern research into the period has been significant, Daniel Corkery's study of Irish poetry and culture in eighteenth century Munster is widely acknowledged as having had a profound...

Napoleon Hill / Think and Grow Rich ( Facsimile of the Original 1937 Classic Edition (Coffee Table Book)

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Josephus - The Jewish War (Penguin Classics PB 1967) - Translation by G.A Williamson

Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus...

Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore - The Medium is the Massage - PB Illustrated - 1967 Penguin

  The Medium is the Massage by Mashall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, paperback reprint, published by Penguin uk An iconic book of the 1960s counter-culture, and a key text of media and communications...

Desmond Morris / The Human Sexes (Coffee Table Book)

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Cicero - The Nature of the Gods ( De Natura Deorum) (Translated by H.C.P McGregor)

The Nature of the Gods by Cicero Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The...

Charles Darwin / The Illustrated Origin of Species (Coffee Table Book)

The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he...

Umar ibn Muhammed al-Nefzawi (Translated by Richard Burton) / The Illustrated Perfumed Garden (Coffee Table Book)

The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (Arabic: الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-ḫāṭir), also known as the Arabic Kama Sutra is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work...

Peter Frankopan / The Silk Roads (Large Paperback)

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Maurice Walshe ( Translator) - The Discourses of the Buddha ( Digha Nikaya ) - HB - 1995

Published in this hardcover edition by Wisdom Publications, Boston, 1995. ( First Published in paperback as 'Thus Have I heard - The Long Discourses of Buddha'' in 1987.  A full translation, with...

Dante - La Vita Nuova ( Translated by Barbara Reynolds) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB 1978

Paperback, published by Penguiin UK, black spine , originally 1969 in this translation, here in a 1975 reprint. 

A.N.W Saunders ( Translator) - Demosthenes and Aeschines (Vintage Penguin Classics PB ) - 1975

Penguin classics paperback ( black spine, this reprint 1975, originally 1974) Light tanning to pages, and general edgewear, internally unmarked.  Demosthenes and Aeschines were the two greatest...

Sigmund Freud / Reflections on War and Death (Large Paperback)

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Henry David Thoreau / Walking (Large Paperback)

"In wildness is the preservation of the world," -- A lecture by Thoreau which became one of the seminal works of the early environmental movement. This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Houghton Mifflin UK , FOURTH PRINTING OF THE 1ST EDITION , 1958.  The dustjacket is now in a removable clear plastic ciover, the dustjacket is slightly chipped at the base of...

Nathaniel Rich / Losing Earth : A Recent History (Large Paperback)

Jean-Dominique Bauby / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Large Paperback)

Jeremy Leggatt (Translator) In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the forty-three-year-old editor of French Elle, suffered a mas

David Howarth / We Die Alone (Large Paperback)

A WWII Epic Of Escape And Endurance Stephen E. Ambrose

Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion (Hardback)

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Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations - HB US Modern Library Edition 1937

The full title is ' An Inqiury into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' edited and with an introduction by Edwin Cannan. Lacks original dustjacket, edgewear to covers.  It is symbolic...

Jill Dawson / The Virago Book of Love Letters

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Edmund Burke - Selected Works - HB ( Thoughts on the Present Discontents & The Two Speeches on America) - HB

Hardcover, published by Oxford Clarendon Press 1904, a standalone volume 1 of a multi volume set.  With the full text of Thoughts on the ( cause of) Present Discontents - Originally 1770.  Edmund...

Christopher Clearfield & Andras Tilcsik / Meltdown (Large Paperback)

   

Naomi Klein / No Logo (Coffee Table Book)

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Theodore Roszak / The Cult of Information- A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (Large Paperback)

  As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous information does not necessarily lea

Alvin E. Roth / Who Gets What and Why (Large Paperback)

How our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.In many parts of life – jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date on the internet – price is not the...

Eckhart Tolle / A New Earth (Large Paperback)

Awakening to Your Life's Purpose With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived “in the now.” In A...

Nate Silver / The Signal and the Noise (Large Paperback)

Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don’t

Thomas Paine / Common Sense (Large Paperback)

The Anglo-American writer and political theorist Thomas Paine (1737-1809) boldly spoke out for social and political reforms, and played an active role in the American War of Independence. His great...

Thomas a Kempis / The Imitation of Christ

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Wole Soyinka / Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World

In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme...

Edward W. Said / Orientalism

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.In...

Kakuzo Okakura / The Book of Tea

'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book...

E.M. Forster / Aspects of the Novel

The effort to see through novels, not round them--that is how E. M. Forster describes the driving force behind this book. He discards the weighty 'historical' view with its cumbersome apparatus of...

Eric Schlosser / Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World (Large Paperback)

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser's disturbing and timely exploration of one of the world's most controversial industries, has become a massive bestseller in America and rightly deserves to be so this...

Daniele Del Giudice / Take-Off (Large Paperback)

Interweaving observation and dream, Take-Off is a meditation on flying. Its eight chapters carry the reader up to the clouds, into a world governed by different laws, where as we look through the...

Charles Darwin / Natural Selection

Darwin's greatest discovery: survival of the fittest."The Origin of Species" was the most important book published in the nineteenth century. It has had (and still has today) far-reaching...

Noel Browne - Against The Tide - PB - Biography - BRAND NEW

Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor,...

Plato - Last Days of Socrates - Vintage Penguin PB - Translated by Hugh Tredennick

'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the...

Daniel Corkery - The Hidden Ireland : A study of Gaelic Munster in the 18th Century - PB -1977

Although modern research into the period has been significant, Daniel Corkery's study of Irish poetry and culture in eighteenth century Munster is widely acknowledged as having had a profound...

Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley

In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the...

Karl Marx / The Communist Manifesto

   Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have...

Viktor E. Frankl / Man's Search for Meaning

   When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the...

Malcolm Gladwell / Outliers : The Story of Success

   Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to scientific geniuses to show that the story of...

Steven D. Levitt / Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes (Large Paperback)

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Naomi Klein / No Logo

No Logo’ was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999.  By the time you’re twenty-one, you’ll have seen or heard a million advertisements. But you won’t be happier for it...

Steven D. Levitt / Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to...

Barbara Ehrenreich / Nickel and Dimed

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Naomi Klein / The Shock Doctrine

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Stephen Hawking / A Brief History of Time

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