In the 1880's, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and largely unexplored territory surrounding the Congo...
Darkmans is a very modern book, set in Ashford (a ridiculously modern town), about two very old-fashioned subjects: love and jealousy. It’s also a book about invasion, obs...
In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his ...
Hailed as the definitive biography, this monumental work explains the character and paradoxes of Charles Darwin and opens up the full panorama of Victorian science, theolo...
This text analyses newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the lat...
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the Brit...
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable m...
Don Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645), was the principal minister and favourite of Philip IV of Spain, and for two decades he guided the destinies of th...
The first major biography of the founder of modern Iraq, a charismatic champion of Arab independence and unity
Born in 1883, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure ...
Describes the life of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, who explored India, the Near East, and Africa, went to Mecca, discovered the Kama Sutra, and introduced the Arabi...
From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, the events in the life of the emperor Me...
Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he lega...
Imagine a violent, global apocalypse in which billions die as the planet is cleansed of all who are deemed wicked. Then, once the dust has settled on the unfathomable deat...
In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunte...
«Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда» – классика «литературы ужасов», произведение, популярность которого со временем лишь возрастает. Небольшая повесть о вик...
Джон Фаулз - один из наиболее выдающихся и заслуженно популярных британских писателей ХХ века, современный класик главного калибра, автор всемирных бестселлеров "Волхв" и ...
В норвежском городе Бергене живёт себе вполне обычная норвежская семья: мама, папа, шестилетний Мартин и его старшая сестра Матильда. Но всё меняется, и жизнь вдруг наполн...
Альфред Теннисон - крупнейший английский поэт второй половины XIX века, чрезвычайно редко издававшийся в России. Однако все, кто читал "Два капитана" В.Каверина, помнит ст...
Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary Count Dracula, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in a psychological and cultural portrait, David J....
История греческой философии в 6 томах. Том 1. Ранние досократийцы и пифагорейцы
Уильям Кит Чемберс Гатри
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(10)Шеститомная «История греческой философии» профессора Кембриджского университета Уильяма Гатри (1906-1981) завоевала мировое признание. Среди наиболее ярких достоинств этой...