The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
8 best books like The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters (Anthony Pagden): The Cruel Sea, The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, A History of the World in 100 Objects, In the Penal Colony, Culture and the Death of God, Conscious, Erebus: The Story of a Ship
| Author | Nicholas Monsarrat |
| ISBN | 1580800467 |
“[T]hat was the way the war was going; the individual had to retreat or submerge, the simple unfeeling pair of hands must come to the fore. The emphasis was now on the tireless machine of war; men were parts of this machine, and so they must remain, till they fulfilled their function or wore out. If, in...
| Author | Mark Ridley |
| ISBN | 0743201612 |
Why isn't all life pond-scum? Why are there multimillion-celled, long-lived monsters like us, built from tens of thousands of cooperating genes? Mark Ridley presents a new explanation of how complex large life forms like ourselves came to exist, showing that the answer to the greatest mystery of...
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
| Author | Daniel Immerwahr |
| ISBN | 0374172145 |
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
A History of the World in 100 Objects
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 1846144132 |
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving objects...
Kafka’nın Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın karanlık günlerinde yazdığı Ceza Kolonisinde isimli öyküde, bilinmeyen bir adadaki koloniyi ziyarete giden bir gezgin, orada tüyler ürpertici bir sistemle karşılaşır. Kişinin suçlu olup olmadığına bakılmaksızın, ona...
Culture and the Death of God
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
| ISBN | 0300203993 |
New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why “authentic” atheism is so very hard to come by
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this...
| Author | Annaka Harris |
| ISBN | 0062906712 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages.” --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its...
