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Locke in 90 Minutes
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A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
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A brief and enlightening exploration of Confucius's life and ideas, presented in entertaining and accessible fashion.
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Napoleon in Egypt
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This captivating narrative details Napoleon's dramatic invasion of Egypt in 1798, the first attack on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. 8-page full-color photo insert and maps throughout.
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
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In Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of SchopenhauerAIs life and ideas, and explains their influence on manAIs struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from SchopenhauerAIs writings; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and ...
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Case Management: Policy, Practice, and Professional Business
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Foucault in 90 Minutes
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In Foucault in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Foucault's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Foucault's writings; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that ...
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
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"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it", Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished". Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else - metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, ...
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
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Aquinas's life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion--another title in our highly successful "90 Minutes" series. "Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization."--Katherine A. ...
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
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In Spinoza in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of SpinozaAIs life and ideas, and explains their influence on manAIs struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from SpinozaAIs writings; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that ...
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
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Augustine's struggles with sex and a domineering mother, followed by his spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity - detailed in his Confessions - ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing ...
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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
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These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and ...
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Marx in 90 Minutes
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In Marx in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Marx's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Marx's writings; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Marx ...
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
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In Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of HegelOs life and ideas, and explains their influence on manOs struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from HegelOs work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Hegel ...
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
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Paul Strathern
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life - how we live, and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence: the "existing being". In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay ...
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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements
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In this book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements. Framing this history is the life-story of the 19th century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at this desk and awoke after dreaming of the Periodic Table - the ...
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Plato in 90 Minutes
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is no reality but merely ...
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Bertrand Russell in 90 Minutes
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In Bertrand Russell in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of RussellAIs life and ideas, and explains their influence on manAIs struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes criticisms and comments on RussellAIs writings; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and ...
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Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes
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Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the ...
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
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Paul Strathern, Strathern Paul
These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and ...
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The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
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A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, "The Medici" is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning - of humanism which penetrated and explored the arts and sciences and the 'dark' knowledge ...
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Hume in 90 Minutes
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A brief and enlightening exploration of Hume's life and ideas, presented in entertaining and accessible fashion.
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
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A look at the life and work of the major philosophers.
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Borges in 90 Minutes
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Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the ...
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A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy
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The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystical and moved toward observation and logic. Its ...
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Newton and Gravity: The Big Idea
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A refresher course that makes physics fun and easy to understand for intelligent readers.
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