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Darwin's Origin of Species by Browne Janet
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
An enlightening and highly readable introduction to the book that altered forever our understanding of what it is to be human. There is grandeur in this view of life . . . whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beauti ...Show more
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey by Alberto Manguel
Category: Classics | Series: Books That Changed the World
While it is unknown if there ever was a man named Homer, there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature, feeding our imagination for over two and a half millennia. The Iliad and The Odyssey, with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, brave ...Show more
Karl Marx's Das Kapital by Wheen Francis
Category: History | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it', wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expos of the new capitalist world of the Victorian era, whose ideas would affect the lives of millions and alter the course of world histo ...Show more
On The Bible by Karen Armstrong
Category: Spirituality | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
Second-hand, paperback in reasonable condition. Obvious fold on front cover. A ground-breaking explanation of the single most influential text of all time by the world's foremost religious historian. The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over 2,000 languages, it i ...Show more
On The Wealth of Nations by P J O'Rourke
Category: History | Series: Books That Shook the World
'The Wealth of Nations is, without doubt a 'book that changed the world.' But it has been taking its time. Two hundred and thirty one years after publication, Adam Smith's practical truths are only beginning to be absorbed in full. Although its contents didn't make people gasp, something about The Wealt ...Show more
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Books That Changed the World
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable righ ...Show more
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