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I've Been Thinking
2025 || Paperback || Daniel C. Dennett || Penguin Books Ltd
Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in a World of Strangers
2007 || Paperback || Kwame Anthony Appiah || Penguin Books Ltd
This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today. Arguing that we concentrate too much on what makes us different rather than recognising our common humanity, Appiah explores how we can act ethically in a globalised world.
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Digital Minimalism
Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
2024 || Paperback || Cal Newport || Penguin Books Ltd
Read Digital Minimalism and you'll never again mindlessly sacrifice your productivity to clickbait or lose 40 minutes of your evening to your Instagram feed.
In this timely and enlightening book, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can have fun with friends and family ...
The Library of Ancient Wisdom
How Mesopotamia Made History
2025 || Hardcover || Selena Wisnom || Penguin Books Ltd
Voyage in the Dark
2000 || Paperback || Jean Rhys || Penguin Books Ltd
'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience.
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The Art of Uncertainty
How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
2024 || Hardcover || David Spiegelhalter || Penguin Books Ltd
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The War with Hannibal
The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30
2004 || Paperback || Livy || Penguin Books Ltd
In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and the decimation of the Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. Yet it is also the clash of personalities that fascinates Livy, from great debates in the Senate to the historic meeting between...