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Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

Focuses on modern constitutionalism with selections from Hume, Montesquieu, the Federalist, and Constant. This title features the author’s translation of Constant’s 1819 essay On Ancient and Modern Liberty . It…

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Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England

David Wootton

The seventeenth century was Englands century of revolution, an era in which the nation witnessed protracted civil wars, the execution of a king, and the declaration of a short-lived republic…

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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton

We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book features a story of intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science…

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

David Wootton

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and…

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Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment

David Wootton

In this book David Wootton assesses Sarpi’s public opinions in the light of the views expressed in his private papers, reinterprets his life work as being the expression, not of…

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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

David Wootton

In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and…

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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies

David Wootton

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer and author, the author places him at the centre…

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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton (University of Victoria)

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Penguin Random House UK.

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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton (University of Victoria)

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Penguin Random House UK.

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Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649-1776

David Wootton (University of Victoria, British Columbia)

This book provides an essential introduction to republican theory and practice between the English and the American Revolutions. Modern republican theory took shape under the influence of authors such as…

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Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book

Christopher Marlowe

This edition of the ‘A’ text, with supporting documents that include selections from The English Life of Faustus, contemporary testimonies to Marlowe’s ‘atheism’, and passages from the ‘B’ text, offers…

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Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

A translation of The Prince .

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Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book

Christopher Marlowe

An authoritative text of Marlowe’s classic play, with a substantial introduction giving historical background, with performance (play and cinema) history, illustrations, a useful timeline, and a list of topics designed…

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The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

A translation of The Prince .

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Edition with Related Texts

Mary Shelley

This will be an edition of the 1818 text of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. An Introduction by David Wootton, with edited related texts and notes, makes this volume accessible and useful…

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Edition with Related Texts

Mary Shelley

This will be an edition of the 1818 text of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. An Introduction by David Wootton, with edited related texts and notes, makes this volume accessible and useful…

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

David Wootton

From David Wootton comes this provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

David Wootton

From David Wootton comes this provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.

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Locke: Political Writings

John Locke

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to…

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The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Includes notes, a 2-page map, an index, and an Introduction, this edition is useful for students of history and political theory.

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Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment

The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key factor in the development of the modern world, yet it has been relatively little explored by historians. This book presents a…

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

David Wootton

From David Wootton comes this provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.

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Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences & the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On the Social Contract, The State of War

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Offers a translation of the author’s most important political writings.

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Utopia: With Erasmus’s ‘The Sileni of Alcibiades

Sir Thomas More

Wootton’s translation brings out the liveliness of More’s work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion…

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Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On the Social Contract, The State of War

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Offers a translation of the author’s most important political writings.

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On the Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This new edition features a revision by Donald A. Cress of his bestselling 1987 translation of On the Social Contract together with Introduction, footnotes, and chronology by David Wootton, one…

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The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton,James Madison,John Jay

Through a judicious selection of the classic essays from 1787-1788 by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay in defence of the new federal Constitution – together with key writings by the Anti-Federalists…

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CBT for Hoarding Disorder: A Group Therapy Program Workbook

David F. Tolin,Blaise Worden,Bethany Wootton,Christina Gilliam

Part of a two-component product with a companion therapist’s guide, CBT for Hoarding Disorder: Client Workbook guides patients struggling with hoarding disorder who are enrolled in a comprehensive CBT group…

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CBT for Hoarding Disorder - A Group Therapy Program Therapist’s Guide

D Tolin,Blaise Worden,Bethany Wootton,Christina Gilliam

Part of a two-component product with a companion client workbook, CBT for Hoarding Disorder: Therapist’s Guide guides group leaders through a comprehensive CBT group program for patients struggling with hoarding…

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