The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and
corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of
Classical Athens. In tra More...
'What a marvellous book this is ...de Botton dissects what
(Proust) had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully,
paying attention taking y More...
What is truth? What is justice? Despite some 3000 years of
trying, we have never really managed to answer the central
questions of what makes us tick More...
"The Future of Man" is a magnificent introduction to the
thoughts and writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, one of the few
figures in the history of More...
G.I. Gurdjieff dominated early twentieth-century esoteric
thought with his unsettling system of psychological development
known as the Fourth Way, ins More...
Striking portraits of the inspiring individuals Gurdjieff met
while journeying to remote parts of Asia and the Near East in
search of hidden knowledge More...
