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Animal Farm – George Orwell
₦14,000.00In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience; a traditional novel would take too long to write.
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Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
₦32,000.00The Critique of Pure Reason brings together two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Translated, Edited and with an Introduction by Marcus Weigelt
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance – Barack Obama
₦18,000.00The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama recounts an emotional odyssey, retracing the migration of his mother’s family from Kansas to Hawai’i, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Written nearly fifteen years before becoming president, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read.
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Exile and the Kingdom – Albert Camus
₦15,500.00The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider – even in one’s own country – and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation – Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi
₦21,000.00Before Nigeria was ‘created’ in 1914, West Africa had empires, revolutions, slave trades and resistance movements that shaped the nation’s identity. Formation traces how jihad, slavery andcolonialism forged modern Nigeria.
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Free Troubles – Obari Gomba
₦10,000.00Free Troubles: A Writer’s Eyes on the World is a collection of beautifully written essays that x-rays, critiques and parodies the ills of modern day society. Obari Gomba employs tropes of satire and social commentary, pyrotechnics of wit, beauty of language, diversity of style, force of imagination and experimentation, and first-person point of vi…
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Freedom and Death – Nikos Kazantzakis
₦16,500.00Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis’s modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam.
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In Defence of the Republic – Marcus Tullius Cicero
₦18,000.00Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: ‘an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country’.
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Letters from a Stoic – Lucius Seneca
₦10,000.00HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Later in life, Seneca wrote Episulae Morales ad Lucilium, or Letters from a Stoic, detailing these principles in full, sharing the many traditional themes of Stoic philosophy, such as the contempt of death, the value of friendship and virtue as the supreme good.
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London Labour and the London Poor – Henry Mayhew
₦16,000.00With an Introduction by Rosemary O’Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation.
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Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Revised and Updated Edition) – Barnaby Phillips
₦18,500.00In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory.
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Love Does Not Win Elections – Ayisha Osori
₦5,500.00Ayisha Osori, writer, lawyer and advocate for social justice, ran for the People’s Democratic Party’s ticket to the Nigerian House of Representatives in 2015 and lost. Love Does Not Win Elections is a pitch perfect account of our primary process in Nigeria.
– Jacqueline Farris, DG, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation
Ayisha’s gripping account reminds…
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Mark Twain – Ron Chernow
₦65,000.00But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Mark Twain went west and accepted a job at the local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humour. After establishing himself as a journalist, satirist, and performer, and a family man, Twain went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawye…
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Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
₦16,000.00The “Meditations” of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. The Meditations were composed in periods of inaction during the wars which Marcus hated but was compelled to fight.
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On War – Carl von Clausewitz
₦16,000.00Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war.
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent – Joseph E. Stiglitz
Original price was: ₦21,000.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz identifies the true sources of wealth and increases in standards of living, based on learning, advances in science and technology, and the rule of law.
