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  • The Other Renaissance

    From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World

    by Paul Strathern ...
    An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart.It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy.However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Dark Brilliance

    The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    During the 1600s—between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment—Europe lived through an era known as The Age of Reason. This was a revolutionary period that saw great advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory, and economics.However, all this was accomplished against a background of extreme political turbulence on a continental scale, in the form of ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Medici

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Florentines

    From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Dark Brilliance

    The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great

    by Paul Strathern ...
    A sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how—although it was a time of great progress—it was also an era of brutality and intolerance with a very human cost.During the 1600s—between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment—Europe lived through an era known as The Age of Reason. This was a revolutionary period that saw great advances in areas such as art, science, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Borgias

    Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty—all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.This is but one of several paradoxes ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Marx in 90 Minutes

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    Series Audiobook 0 - The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 24 min

    Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely failed. Yet the force of the communist belief offered the prospect of "justice on this earth" to ... Read more

    $9.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Sartre in 90 Minutes

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    Series Audiobook 0 - The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 41 min

    During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism—at the opportune moment when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the individual. In Sartre’s hands it became a revolt against ... Read more

    $9.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rise and Fall

    A History of the World in Ten Empires

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Spinoza in 90 Minutes

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    Series Audiobook 0 - The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 13 min

    Spinoza’s brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God—one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza’s conclusions are deeply in accord with modern thought, from science (the holistic ethics of ... Read more

    $9.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Hume in 90 Minutes

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    Series Audiobook 0 - The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything—except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which neither religion nor science is certain.In Hume in 90 ... Read more

    $9.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Descartes in 90 Minutes

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    Series Audiobook 0 - The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    René Descartes spent much of his life in solitude. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: “I think, therefore I am.” Convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts alone. This internal reality, he believed, was the true reality, while the external ... Read more

    $9.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus