Presenting an abridgement of the author's 2004 translation of "The Mangy Parrot", this title aims to captures the narrative drive, literary innovations, and biting social commentary.
A chronicle and natural history of the Caribbean. It records experimental adoption of the sugar/African slavery complex that would come to characterise the Caribbean for two hundred years, to such disastrous effects.
This edition contains Donald Cress' completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections... Læs mere
William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In... Læs mere
A reprint of the J M Dent edition of 1997. Heinrich von Kleist was born and grew up in the Enlightenment and died in a suicide pact in 1811, aged only thirty-four. He left... Læs mere
Includes selections from Hume's major works in moral thought, as well as peripheral works, which provide an introduction to Hume's moral philosophy.
Provides a survey of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political philosophy, from their roots in myth to the philosophers and... Læs mere
By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' "The Secret History" destroyed forever that... Læs mere