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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely
₦16,000.00Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn’t be?
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Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
₦18,000.00Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, gradually they come to share their own stories, dreams and hopes with each other, and, for a few hours, taste…
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
₦15,000.00How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work?
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The Art of Rhetoric – Aristotle
₦10,000.00HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
₦24,000.00This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they’re impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them.
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The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Laurence Marlow
₦16,000.00Contents: The Communist Manifesto; The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
With an introduction by Dr. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as correct now as when it was written, and some of his suggestions (progressive income tax, abolition of child labour, free education…
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
₦18,000.00Abridged and with an Introduction by Antony Lentin and Brian Norman. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 – an enthralling account by ‘the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment’.
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The Essential Kafka – Franz Kafka
₦15,000.00Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintain…
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The Four Loves – Clive Staples Lewis
₦16,500.00Affection is the most familiar bond born of fondness and familiarity; friendship, our rarest and perhaps most insightful connection; eros, the embodiment of passion and desire. Lewis names and explores these human sentiments in The Four Loves, one of his most famous works of non-fiction.
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money – John Maynard Keynes
₦16,000.00John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.
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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 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 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.
