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  • How to Lie with Statistics by

    A light and cheeky guide to the dark arts of statistics -- and a stone cold classic of popular mathematics

    In 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough ...

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  • The Art of Rhetoric by

    Aristotle's influential treatise on the way to win arguments

    With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 ...

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  • History of the Church by
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  • Utilitarianism and Other Essays by &

    Alan Ryan's anthology provides the perfect introduction to an enormously significant philosophical movement, aiming for "the greatest happiness for the greatest number"

    One of ...

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  • Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by

    Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay

    Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present ...

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  • The Essays by

    A collection of Bacon's vibrant, intelligent essays covering subjects ranging from ambition to the vicissitude of things

    One of the major political figures of ...

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  • The Politics by

    Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued ...

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  • The Jewish War by

    Penguin Classics relaunch

    Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against ...

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  • The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by

    Only widely-available edition of Khayyam's lyrical poetry

    Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and ...

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  • On the Good Life by

    Cicero's reflections upon the way to a live a good life

    For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at ...

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  • A History of My Times by

    A fascinating historical account of Greece at a point of crisis

    Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 ...

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  • The Civil War by

    Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome

    A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great ...

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  • The Persian Expedition by

    Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad

    In The Persian Expedition ...

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  • The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by

    Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon ...

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  • The Annals of Imperial Rome by

    Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero ...

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