 | Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr
Buy used from: £2.22 ...because it works.
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 | The Theban Plays (Classics) by Sophocles
Buy used from: £0.01 King Oedipus is the best translation I know of the best play I've read.
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 | Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £8.75 Haunting, bleak lyricism and wonderful, revolutionary dramatic structures. No point in buying all his plays separately as they are almost the same price as this.
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 | The Dalkey Archive (Flamingo Modern Classic) by Flann O'Brien
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 You'll never ride a bike the same again.
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 | Wells : History of Mr Polly (Everyman) by H.G. Wells
Buy used from: £2.97 Quite a remarkable book, more interesting perhaps than its author intended to those who find a horror in self-abnegation
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 | Collected Poems 1: Poems, 1970-84 by Peter Reading
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £2.94 The poetry is tremendous; the social satire tremendously bitter; the caricatures crude; and the clashes are smashing. Easily the most technically accomplished poet who is still alive.
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 | Critique of Pure Reason (Macmillan student editions) by Immanuel Kant
Buy used from: £2.00 Immanuel Kant was the world's greatest systematic philosopher and this is the greatest exposition of his system. Its ugly writing does not mask its beautiful ideas.
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 | Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
Buy used from: £0.09 The epicentre of modern philosophy.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Harvill Panther) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £1.51 Religious, psychosexual and individualistic super-novel written and hidden under Soviet Russia
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 | Relativity (Routledge Classics) by Albert Einstein
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.96 THE revolution in scientific thinking of the past 400-odd years explained by its progenitor: this book is very technical, but increasingly amazing if you plough on regardless.
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 | The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
Buy new: £12.97 / Used from: £8.50 A brilliant history of art, written by someone who has helped define what art history is.
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 | What is This Thing Called Science? Third Edition by Chalmers
Buy new: £18.97 / Used from: £13.00 A refreshingly lucid and honest examination of scientific method(s) and resultant truth-claims
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 | Portable Shakespeare (Viking portable library) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.33 A lovely collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems, with print you needn't squint over and note-free pages, so no academic interruptions to the flow of words.
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 | Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic and Jewish Traditions by Arthur Hyman
Buy new: £16.96 / Used from: £8.99 A vibrant cacophony of the different voices who built three different faiths and a lot of the modern Western worldviews. A wonderful and provocative selection.
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 | The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts: A Critical History with a Selcetion of Texts by G. S. Kirk
Buy new: £19.73 / Used from: £8.78 Fascinating survey of ancient Greek cosmology and metaphysical speculation.
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 | The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus
Buy used from: £5.00 Reassurance that humanity has changed little in 2,500 years; a curious and compelling collection of tall stories, history and travellers' tales written after pt 2 of aworld-historically important war.
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