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Offers a depiction of shady financiers and banking collapses that seems uncannily topical, as does the author's compassionate admiration for Amy Dorrit, the 'child of the Marshalsea', as she struggles to hold her family together in the face of neglect, irresponsibility, and ruin.

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With its endearingly misspelled title, this collection of brief experimental sketches reveals the making of one of the best-loved authors of British literature. It includes stories that demonstrate the lively mind and ready wit of a teenage girl living in the late eighteenth century.

(Paperback)

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is a novel about love, obsession, murder, and greed. McTeague a young dentist becomes obsessed with Trina, one of his patients. The pair eventually marry and descend together into depravity and moral decay. A powerful harrowing book.

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A private book of reflections that is written over a series of years in far-flung places as the author led the Romans in military campaigns, quashed revolts, and dealt with the other tribulations of governing the Empire. Best described as a spiritual journal, it contains a record of the author's philosophical exercises.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

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A systematic treatise on ethics that speaks to human beings about themselves and their relations to others.

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Published in 1859, this title presents an eloquent defense of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy. It offers a liberal argument in support of the value of liberty.

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Divided into three essays, this title offers an investigation into the origins of our moral values, or as the author calls them 'moral prejudices'. It addresses the concept of guilt and its role in the development of civilization and religion. It also considers suffering and its role in human existence.

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Intends to construct an all-embracing theory of how war works. This title is full of sharp observation, biting irony, and memorable phrases, the most famous being, 'war is a continuation of politics by other means'.

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Whether you're looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps you're feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, this title features the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Christopher Morley's unforgettably weird classic tale of adventure on a traveling bookstore called Parnassus, drawn by a steed called Pegasus, is back for a new generatin of readers.

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Blending history and biography, the author evokes the characters of great leaders in history. He systematically pairs a Greek with a Roman, comparing characters and lives with similar careers so as to serve his particular goal of moral instruction. He defines for all ages the character of Greek and Roman moral identity.

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Blending history and biography, the author evokes the characters of great leaders in history. He systematically pairs a Greek with a Roman, comparing characters and lives with similar careers so as to serve his particular goal of moral instruction. He defines for all ages the character of Greek and Roman moral identity.

(Paperback, Customer-Specific)

The word pragmatism is used everywhere today, from business to sports to politics. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this title offers a corrective to modern uses of the word, since the voice that speaks in its pages embodies precisely the opposite values from the pejorative semes the word has acquired.

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A historical novel about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Through a romance between a high-born Roman pagan and a Christian woman, it brings to life the decadence of imperial Rome during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar (AD 54-68), the bloodthirsty persecutor of the early Christians.

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General Robert E Lee, was no ordinary man. In defeat, the formal Confederate general became the personification of the South. This was a remarkable evolution for a man who in 1861 took up arms against the nation of his birth and subsequently led an army to a devastating end. This book provides insights into the general's family life.

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A book that is intended for those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus.

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Presents an impassioned defense of the Enlightenment principles of freedom and equality that the author believed would soon sweep the world.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich Observatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of contemporary terrorism and the literary precursor to today's espionage thriller. Revised reissue.