Browsing: Philosophy

Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of…

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Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the…

What makes someone a grade A jerk, and why does it matter for societal function? A professor of philosophy offers thought-provoking answers in this New York Times bestseller. “Both thorough and imaginative… There are moments of great insight and outright hilarity” (Kirkus Reviews).

As a young Florentine envoy to the courts of France and the Italian principalities, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was able to…

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological…

A New York Times bestseller with over 84,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: With his groundbreaking ventures, Elon Musk has become a polarizing figure in the tech industry. An award-winning journalist delivers “a tremendous look into arguably the world’s most important entrepreneur” (The Washington Post).

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years,…