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Results for 'voltaire'
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The Dawn of Everything
A New History of HumanityA boldly ambitious work ... entertaining and thought-provoking ... an impressively large undertaking that succeeds in making us reconsider not just the remote past but also the too-close-to-see present, as well as the common thread that is our shifting and elusive nature.
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A History of France in 21 Women
The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history.
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The Prince
How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? Examining regimes and their rulers the world over and throughout history, from Roman Emperors to renaissance Popes, the author answers all these questions.
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Candide, or Optimism
When his love for the Baron's daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, and murder, testing the young hero's optimism.
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The Prince
How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? In this book, the author answers all these questions in a work of realpolitik that still has shrewd political lessons.
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Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Considers the issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.
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Gods, Guns and Missionaries
The Making of the Modern Hindu IdentityA brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India’s most accomplished and impressively wide-ranging historians
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Parallel Text: French Short Stories
Nouvelles FrancaisesA collection of eight short stories, which help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life.
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The Writer's Lot
Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century FranceThe Writer’s Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors—celebrities and unknowns—at a time when their example, if not often their ideas, changed the course of history. Taking the measure of “literary France” as a whole, Robert Darnton offers rare insight into the social ferment of the Age of Revolution.
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A Short History of Stupidity
A Morning Star Best Books of 2025A New Scientist Best Popular Science Books of 2025"With an impressive range of reference from Schopenhauer and Foucault to Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, Stuart Jeffries' book succeeds in being both deeply serious and very funny, without ever sounding sneering. The fight back against stupidity begins with this fiercely intelligent book."Joe Moran, author of Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness and On Roads: A Hidden History"This book is lively, provocative, witty, and - not least - intelligent."Peter Burke, author of Ignorance: A Global History and The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag"Stuart Jeffries has written the clever, funny A Short History of Stupidity, folding in everyone from Socrates to Jade Goody, Voltaire to Trump, Hitler to AI. He takes us on a fascinating, illuminating dive into ancient stupidity, modern stupidity, structural stupidity, mass stupidity, digital stupidity - you get the idea. Unless of course you're stu..."Irish Examiner"A Short History of Stupidity is bracingly clever, densely didactic, and intimidatingly well-informed. I doubt that anyone who spends some time with Jeffries' book won't feel a little less dumb than hitherto."The Telegraph"Stuart Jeffries... treats idiocy with humour, intelligence and (relative) brevity."Literary Review"exhilarating"The Guardian"A learned, picturesque ramble through world civilisation... a thoughtful, ambitious book"Tibor Fischer, The Spectator"Bitingly funny"The Irish Times"A wide-ranging exploration not only of stupidity, but also wisdom, epistemology and their cultural manifestations."Morning Star"Delightful and unexpected"New Scientist"The accomplished British critic Stuart Jeffries... makes 'stupid' seem like the perfect way to characterise our era."Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker"This is a learned and often exhilarating book, and it's a bit all over the place – but, given the subject matter, it'd be stupid to expect otherwise."Sam Leith, The Guardian"Vastly entertaining as it samples human history from Socrates to ChatGPT"Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
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Foreign Bodies
The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of ScienceAn epic story of humanity’s struggle against pandemics from the renowned historian and broadcaster
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Voltaire
€ 68,95