Non Fiction Classics

Marco Polo - The Travels of Marco Polo (Vintage Everyman's Library HB 1958

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels...

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...

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

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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...

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

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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Robert D. Putnam / Bowling Alone - The Collapse and Revival of American Community(Large Paperback)

  Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its ex

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...

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore)

Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in...

Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967

Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades,...

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...

Aldous Huxley / Brave New World Revisited

Written 27 years after the 1932 publicati

Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Large Paperback)

Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life...

C.G. Jung / Memories, Dreams, Reflections

An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings.In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years...

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...

Sally Hayden / My Fourth Time, We Drowned (Large Paperback)

 The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history.In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. ‘Hi sister Sally,...

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,...

Tacitus / Nero and the Burning of Rome

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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...

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...

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...

Robert M. Pirsig / Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER'S GUIDE Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in 1974.The story of the narrator, his son Chris and...

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

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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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Richard Dawkins / The God Delusion

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Stephen Hawking / A Brief History of Time

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