Social Sciences

Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare interpretation. This condensed...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was a critical...

Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.'In this fascinating work by one of the pioneers of...

Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one...

Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by InazoNitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a hugeimpact both...

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121_180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Socrates' most dedicated student, Plato, offers a detailed and eye-opening account of the Socratic belief in one's own responsibility through Socrates' dialogue with...

Author: Miyamoto Musashi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

Author: Frank Sewall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Meditations is considered the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy.

Author: Format: Paperback Number of Pages: One of the greatest works created by any culture and one of the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The...

Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...

Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of Confucius' sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express...

Author: Kathryn Bonella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Snowing in Bali is the true crime story of the organised drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one...

Author: Martin Hagglund Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'It is always lucid, and is at its heart remarkably simple. You could extract its essence and offer it to thirsty...

Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...

Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty....

Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...

Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before....

Author: James M. Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment...

Author: Clare Balding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bobbie the Wonder dog crossed more than 2,500 miles of plains, desert and mountains to find his way home - and...

Author: Frank Tallis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a...

Author: Josh Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a...

Author: Moshik Temkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who have risen to the challenge of leading others. Sometimes their...

Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...

Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and...

Author: David Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Fascinating' Telegraph 'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post 'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker '[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times...

Author: Janice Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, full of strange...

Author: Thomas Mayo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas...

Author: Lewis Laney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights...

Author: Frank Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a...

Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...

Author: Richard Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin Why are people more relaxed...

Author: Timothy W. Ryback Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler...

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: In this collection of essays, Emerson reflects on friendship, love, heroism, and the other qualities which represent the nest humanity has...

Author: Trevor Barnes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War--and the international manhunt that...

Author: Glyn Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature and art, and the...

Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...

Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...

Author: Peter S. Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder...

Author: N. t. Wright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Today's leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and acclaimed author N. T. Wright returns with a collection of pastoral...

Author: Alex Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 New York Times-bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape...

Author: Amanda Montell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell...

Author: Amy Jeffs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and...

Author: Josh Ireland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of...

Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...

Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...