Paul Strathern

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorado

This captivating narrative details Napoleon's dramatic invasion of Egypt in 1798, the first attack on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. 8-page full-color photo insert and maps throughout.

Napoleon in Egypt

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Paul Strathern offers a concise,expert account of Kierkegaard's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understan his existance in the world.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

In 90 Minutes

Keirkegaard

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Texas

Joyce's transcendental work of modernism, Ulysses, smashed the realistic conventions of the mature bourgeois novel into a flood of styles. Here was an entirely new realism that built upon Freud's psychology, Picasso's art, Einstein's physics, Stravinsky's music, Wittgenstein's philosophy-all reflecting the entirely new ways in which humanity was coming to regard itself and the world around it. Joyce's "stream of consciousness" provoked outrage, but it was the art of the future. The twentieth century had found its voice. In James Joyce in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Joyce's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes selections from Joyce's writings; a list of his chief works; a chronology of Joyce's life and × and recommended reading for those who wish to push further. Book jacket.

James Joyce in 90 Minutes

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

Socrates in 90 Minutes

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A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage.Strathern also follows the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello; as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola; and the fortunes of those members of the Medici family who achieved success away from Florence, including the two Medici popes and Catherine de' Médicis, who became Queen of France and played a major role in that country through three turbulent reigns.

The Medici

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The Big Idea

Examines the life and work of Albert Einstein within their historical and scientific contexts; and provides an explanation of his theory of relativity and its impact on the world.

Einstein and Relativity

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Oregon

These concise and enlightening explorations of the world's greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in an entertaining and accessible new fashion. Each book includes a sprightly biographical essay, which includes a view of the man and a simplified (but not simplistic) explanation of his basic ideas and arguments, followed by a selection of quotations from the philosopher's works, a brief list of suggestions for further reading, and chronologies that place the philosopher within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.

Aristotle in 90 Minutes

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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is no reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state". In Plato in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Plato's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Plato's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Plato within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.

Plato in 90 Minutes

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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

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Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

Evaluates the three Italian Renaissance icons as products and complements of their times, considering how events in early sixteenth-century Italy as well as their relationships with each other profoundly affected their legacies.

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Socrates in 90 Minutes

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James Joyce in 90 Minutes

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Einstein and Relativity

Paul Strathern

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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

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Paul Strathern

James Joyce in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern

Einstein and Relativity

Paul Strathern

Aristotle in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern

Plato in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

Paul Strathern; Robert Whitfield

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (CD AUDIO)