Diogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit a
179 42 3MB
English Pages 320 Year 2012
Report DMCA / Copyright
DOWNLOAD FILE
'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowle
640 88 1MB Read more
302 63 14MB Read more
The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the
107 36 2MB Read more
'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mil
616 100 2MB Read more
Paul Davies explains the significance of the amazing quantum universe, where fact is stranger than any science fiction.
794 52 519KB Read more
Taking its cue from Baudelaire’s important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines th
901 68 5MB Read more
183 31 157KB Read more
Would you take Verdi's advice on how to write an opera? What happened to Caruso in the San Francisco earthquake? Th
211 118 12MB Read more
In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of
990 142 5MB Read more
337 48 557KB Read more