The Essential Erasmus

6 best books like The Essential Erasmus (Erasmus): Washington: A Life, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Mabinogion, The Way Things are, The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, The Scotch-Irish: A Social History

Washington: A Life
AuthorRon Chernow
ISBN1594202664
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic...
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
AuthorThomas S. Kuhn
ISBN0226458083
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit...
The Mabinogion
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0140443223
The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn) is a collection of 11 prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back...
The Way Things are
AuthorLucretius
ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)

When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
AuthorJohn Boardman
ISBN0192801376
From the epic poems of Homer through the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now available in a smaller, more...
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
AuthorJames Graham Leyburn
ISBN0807842591
Dispelling much of what he terms the "mythology" of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He traces their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland; and their successive migrations...
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