John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936....

Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment....

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans....

Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes\"s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English....

More\"s Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous \"description\" of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless....

With an Introduction by Angus Calder. As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, \"Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War\". Lawrence\"s younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915....

The Holy Qur\"an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years....

Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet....

Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which swept across Europe between 1792 and 1815....

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato\"s work....

With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin\"s travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world\"s beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture....

With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own....

Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900....

Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century....

One of the important records of Judaism and the Jews, this historical enterprise is an account in twenty books of Jewish history, from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66....