Zadig / L’ingenu

Voltaire

Classic Fiction

One of Voltaire’s earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L

18thcentury, france, french, philosophy

Micromégas And Other Short Fictions

Voltaire

Classic Fiction

Micromegas is a 650-year-old, 39-kilometer-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak 1,000 languages and

collection, enlightenment, fantasy, french, philosophy, scifi

The Reprieve

Jean-Paul Sartre

Classic Fiction

An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Mun

continental, existentialism, french, marxism, philosophy

The Aristos

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magu

aphorism, collection, essays, modern, philosophy, postmodern

God is Not Great

How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

Non-fiction

In the tradition of Bertrand Russells Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris recent bestseller The End of Fait

atheism, philosophy, religion

The Magic of Reality

How we know what is really true

Richard Dawkins

Science

Packed with clever thought experiments, dazzling illustrations and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality exp

atheism, biology, evolution, philosophy

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Classic Fiction

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series

existentialism, patricide, philosophy, russia, russian

The Act of Creation

Arthur Koestler

Psychology

While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examin

art, culture, philosophy

The Third Wave

Alvin Toffler

Non-fiction

The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis cas

philosophy, sociology, speculative

Nations and Nationalism

Ernest Gellner

History

This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropo

nationalism, philosophy, politics

The Divided Self

An existential Study in Sanity and Madness

R D Laing

Psychology

In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the ontologically secure person with that of a p

persona, personality, philosophy, self

The Sleepwalkers

A History of Mans Changing Vision of the Universe

Arthur Koestler

Science

An extraordinary history of humanitys changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koest

astronomy, history, philosophy

Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good

Mark Matousek

Science

Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil.

anthropology, ethics, philosophy