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Paul Strathern
A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.
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The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family–a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners–set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.naissance.
Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 was the first attack on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. He was just twenty-eight when he invaded Egypt…
From ancient philosophy, through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man’s dream.
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In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military…
Gives an account of Nietzsches life and ideas, and explains their influence on mans struggle to understand his existence in the world. This book also includes selections from Nietzsches work…
These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost…
Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world’s great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in an entertaining and…
Reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts and political compromises which made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.
An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart. It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in…
Tells the history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe. This title explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici…
A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.
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From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation forward.
A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias.
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An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpart, by the author of The Florentines and The Borgias.
In Socrates in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Socrates’ life and ideas and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the…
A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of perhaps the most influential family in Italian history: the Medici.
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A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of…
Aquinas’s life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion–another title in our highly successful 90 Minutes series. Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a…
A brief and enlightening exploration of Hume’s life and ideas, presented in entertaining and accessible fashion.
Beckett in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Becketts life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on mans struggle to understand his place in the…
Though prone to periods of mental breakdown, Virginia Woolf was capable of an exceptionally lucid introspective insight. Her stream-of-consciousness novels broke with conventional form to express her unique experience of…
These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion.
Brief and enlightening exploration of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion.
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In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by…
D. H. Lawrences works were an attempt to revive some vivid, instinctual part of the human spirit that he felt had been lost or damaged. Strathern offers a witty and…
The life and complete works of St. Augustine are revealed, including his influence and impact on contemporary society.
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From Hippocrates to gene therapy, bloodletting to DNA
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The third book in the 500 Reflections on the RCP series, focusing on the quacks and rogues of the college’s history.
Far from being a novelty, this book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character… . I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and…
A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition…
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners-set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.
A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.
The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty–all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when…
Paul Strathern,Robert Whitfield
Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.
Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Konigsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy…