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God Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrat...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money...

Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction Arthur Dent thought his day was going badly when someone trie...

The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader. The ...

Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about...

Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Langue...

It is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id, existentia...

Product Description No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which has long b...

The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ign...

Review Why Does The Word Exist? is more fun than a book this serious has any right to be. Holt has written a metaphysical page-turner and a tr...

Product Description The last members of the secret society known as the Oversight still patrol the border between the natural and supernatural, h...

Product Description Human rights is often claimed as the 'idea' of our time. However, although considerable time, energy and resources have been i...

MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR OBSERVER BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A compelling book' Evening Standard 'Essential' Sunday Times 'His soldier's di...

What is a human person, and what is the relation between a person and his or her body? In her third book on the philosophy of mind, Lynne Rudder Ba...

Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democrac...

By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnso...

A new and dynamic reappraisal of Winston Churchill, and his finest hour in 1940-1. Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifity years after his death he...

Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have...

The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them pre...