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By: Judith Flanders
ISBN: 9781529003567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The acclaimed author of The Victorian House and The Victorian City tells the story of the celebration of Christmas, from mummers' plays to the invention of Sellotape, revealing much fascinating new information and shattering many myths.
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By: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9780712668422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2003
Publisher: Vintage
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Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, views which later found expression in such famous works as 'Two Concepts of Liberty', and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics.
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By: McKenzie Wark
ISBN: 9781786631909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the future
(Hardback)
By: Roman Krznaric
ISBN: 9780753559628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Michael Bhaskar
ISBN: 9780349128290
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to today
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By: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780099438021
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.
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By: Jonny Thomson
ISBN: 9781472298560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2023
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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From the internationally acclaimed author of MINI PHILOSOPHY, here are 150 big ideas in bite-sized chunks.
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By: Felipe Fernndez-Armesto
ISBN: 9781786077851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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An extraordinary journey through the history of human imagination, from the dawn of civilisation to the present day
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By: Michael Lwy
ISBN: 9781786630858
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka. Part of Radical Thinkers set 14.
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By: Tara Isabella Burton
ISBN: 9781529364705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An exceptional history of ideas and a contemporary critique on the story of self-making: from the Renaissance to the present day
(Hardback)
By: Tara Isabella Burton
ISBN: 9781529364699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An exceptional history of ideas and a contemporary critique on the story of self-making: from the Renaissance to the present day
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By: Tara Isabella Burton
ISBN: 9781529364736
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An exceptional history of ideas and a contemporary critique on the story of self-making: from the Renaissance to the present day
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By: Prof Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780753808788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.
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By: Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9781847924957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking, this book chronicles the journey of racist ideas and shows how these ideas were developed and eventually enshrined in American society. It also includes answers to some of the troubling questions of our time.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Kimmage
ISBN: 9780465055906
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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How the idea of the West drove twentieth-century US foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving
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By: Kate Summerscale
ISBN: 9781788162814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
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By: Kate Summerscale
ISBN: 9781788162821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
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By: Matt Ridley
ISBN: 9780007542475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.
(Paperback)
By: Boris Starling
ISBN: 9780008412227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how weve changed as a nation.
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By: Lawrence W. Levine
ISBN: 9780807031193
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Publicly greeted as the definitive answer to recent attacks on the university, Lawrence W. Levine's book is a brilliantly argued positive vision of American education and culture.
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By: Richard Tarnas
ISBN: 9781845951627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view.
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By: J. Krishnamurti
ISBN: 9781570625961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2000
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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This introductory material, comprising excerpts from a favoured medium, talks, is considered by the author to be the "core" of his teachings. Truth and impediments to our discovering it, innovative use of language and practical ways of clarifying our understanding of life are addressed.
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By: Ken Eagle Feather
ISBN: 9781591430728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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Explores the many aspects and levels of the dream-state, distinguishing ordinary dreaming from "dreaming awake," a condition of heightened awareness through which the active dreamer ascends to the Dream of Transcendence. This work also describes the energy body, its modes of perception, and how it produces dreaming.
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By: Saul Frampton
ISBN: 9780571234585
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A funny, warm and accessible work of popular philosophy based on the works of a great Renaissance writer.
