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 brin
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 brin
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 bring
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 roo
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.
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 greatest writers.
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 greatest writers.
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 ch
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
In Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Schopenhauer’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world
In Hume in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hume’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also
Presents a distillation of Einstein's life and work within their historical and scientific context and offers an accessible explanation of the concept that shaped the 20th century. Among other topics,
In Machiavelli in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Machiavelli’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world.
Stephen Hawking is arguably the most famous scientist in the world, and many of us may know that black holes are his forte, but do we really have any idea what a black hole is? In this remarkably enga
In Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aquinas’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. T
Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never g
In Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hegel’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book als
In Kant in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Kant’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also
In Aristotle in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aristotle’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The
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
In Descartes in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Descartes’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world. The
"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
