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The Inferno – Dante Alighieri
₦15,000.00Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson
₦18,000.00Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson’s story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.
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The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud
₦15,000.00Brill, with an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. He propounded the theory that dreams are the contraband representations of the beast within man, smuggled into awareness during sleep.
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being – Simone Weil
₦21,000.00An icon of twentieth-century French philosophy, Simone Weil was described by André Gide as ‘the patron saint of all outsiders’ and by Albert Camus as ‘the only great spirit of our time’. Written in 1943, when France was occupied and Weil was working in the offices of the Free France in London, The Need for Roots responds to a plea both timely and …
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The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
₦20,000.00Bunyan wrote the first part of The Pilgrim’s Progress when he was in prison for conducting unauthorised Baptist religious services outside of the Church of England. It was published in 1678; the second part was published in 1684.
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The Pilgrim’s Regress – Clive Staples Lewis
₦16,500.00Lewis’ works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of Lewis’ conversion, it characterises the various theological and temperamental leanings of the time.
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The Power of Words – Simone Weil
₦13,000.00Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipulation of language by the powerful, the obligations of individuals to one another and the needs – for order, equality, liberty and truth – that make us human. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series.
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The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
₦16,000.00With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich. Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power.
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The Problem of Pain – Clive Staples Lewis
₦16,500.00With his signature wealth of compassion and insight, C. Lewis sets out to disentangle these knotty issues.
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The Rebel – Albert Camus
₦16,500.00A philosophical exploration of the idea of ‘rebellion’ by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus’ The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd.
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The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
₦17,000.00WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE BY THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR
ONE OF THE BBC’S ‘100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD’In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’…
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The Road Less Travelled – Morgan Scott Peck
₦17,000.00This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.’
Confronting and solving problems is a painful process that most of us attempt to avoid. And our very avoidance results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually.
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The Sickness Unto Death – Søren Kierkegaard
₦14,000.00Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of ‘despair’ as a symptom of the human condition and describes man’s struggle to fill the spiritual void. Throughout history, some books have changed the world.
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The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI – Ray Kurzweil
₦21,000.00In this visionary and fundamentally optimistic book, the legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition.
‘The best person I know at predicting the future of AI’ BILL GATES
‘A fascinating exploration of our future’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI
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The Social Contract: Or Principles of Political Right (Classics of World Literature) – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
₦16,000.00Tozer with an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society.
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The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells
Original price was: ₦20,000.00.₦10,000.00Current price is: ₦10,000.00.Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within t…
