Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Saul John Ralston)(Paperback)

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Saul John Ralston)(Paperback)

With a new Introduction by the author, this 'erudite and brilliantly readable book' (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new

The Unconscious Civilization (Saul John Ralston)(Paperback)

In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling 'corporatist' structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes

Collapse of Globalism (Saul John Ralston)(Paperback / softback)

With new material covering the current fragile state of the EU, and the right-wing fervour of the United States, John Ralston Saul's polemic book has never been more important, or

Of the Abuse of Words (Locke John)(Paperback / softback)

John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. This book contains writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and

Letters Concerning the English Nation (Voltaire)(Paperback)

Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires. Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in

Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt (West John Anthony)(Paperback)

John Anthony West's revolutionary reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt challenges all that has been accepted as dogma concerning Ancient Egypt. In this pioneering study West documents that: Hieroglyphs carry hermetic messages that convey the subtler realities of the Sacred Science of the

The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England (Matthews Helen)(Paperback)

Voltaire in Love (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and

The Angel of the West Window (Meyrink Gustav)(Paperback)

A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual

Mothman Prophecies (Keel John A.)(Paperback / softback)

The terrifying true story of the alien invasion of Point Pleasant, West Virginia: the tie-in edition to the film starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Alan

Free Bastards (French Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Following the runaway success of The Grey Bastards - one of the biggest debut epic fantasy launches of the last five years - and its sequelThe True Bastards comes the third and final book in the Lot Lands series: The Free

The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (Hobson John M.)(Paperback)

John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the 'Rise of the West' that assume that Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by-stander. Describing the rise of what he calls the 'Oriental West', Hobson argues that Europe first

Space Monsters of the Old West (Lemay John)(Paperback)

Long before airplanes were invented, the pioneers of the Old West told tales of strange 'visitors from the sky.' They saw gooey alien blobs fall to Earth, witnessed strange monsters fly through the air, and even dug up a mummy from Mars Unearthed from real newspaper articles from the time, this is

The Genius of Being: Contemplating the Profound Intelligence of Existence (Ralston Peter)(Paperback)

Peter Ralston's exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here in The Genius of Being, a book of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the

Stormlash (Elliott John)(Pevná vazba)

During the Brazilian dictatorship in the seventies, Robert, a British executive, lives and works in Brazil. Brought up in rough industrial England, he achieved what he wanted by fists and daring and survived years of night school to become an engineer. His wife has taken their children back to

Candide and Other Stories (Voltaire)(Paperback)

Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales,' in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. What Candide does for chivalric

Candide (Voltaire)(Paperback)

Candide, or Optimism (1759) written by Voltaire, the shining star of the French Enlightenment, is a biting, hilarious and frequently outrageous satire that pokes philosophical fun at -- of all things -- the doctrine of optimism. Candide is a nave youth stubbornly adhering to the notion that 'all

John of Damascus, First Apologist to the Muslims (Janosik Daniel J.)(Paperback)

Much of the world today is convulsed in an epic struggle between the Christian West and Islam. Scholars seeking to understand the issues look back in history to unearth the roots of this conflict. Of great value in this effort are the writings of an eyewitness, a devoted Christian who served as

Critique of Black Reason (Mbembe Achille)(Paperback)

In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that

Voltaire and the Form of the Novel (Bonneville Douglas A.)(Paperback / softback)

Mammoth Book of Hard Bastards (Barratt Robin)(Paperback / softback)

The real lives of some of the hardest men on the

Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Milbank John)(Paperback)

This is a revised edition of John Milbank's masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory. The Times Higher Education Supplement wrote of the first edition that it was 'a tour de force of systematic theology. It would be churlish not to acknowledge its

Endless Empress - A Mass Murderer's Guide to Dictatorship in the Fictional Nation of Enkadar (Ciccone Kirkland)(Paperback / softback)

Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 (David Saul)(Paperback)

From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to