Paul Strathern művei

Ten Cities that Led the World - From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, rev...

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the imm...

2 db. Heuréka (Hawking + Newton)

Oppenheimer (Heuréka)

Oppenheimert manapság elsősorban a bomba atyjaként tartjuk számon. Ez a karizmatikus tanáregyéniség, aki fizikusok egész sorára hatott ih...

Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes

Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage. But he is also that modern rarity, a writer with aspi...

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

"Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to ...

Plato in 90 Minutes

Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

Socrates in 90 Minutes

Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

Hegel in 90 Minutes

Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

Empire - A New History of the World

"Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region...

Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense, yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write abo...

The Florentines - From Dante to Galileo

Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilizati...

The Other Renaissance - From Copernicus to Shakespeare

It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also too...

Ten Cities that Led the World - From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civili...

The Other Renaissance - From Copernicus to Shakespeare

Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street Journal Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth...