This volume is a revised translation of the complete text of Book Six about Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics, taken from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers written around AD 230 by the Graeco-Roman author Diogenes Laertius.

Doves Type was made in only one size, the size used in this book.

This is a new translation of the ancient Chinese Taoist classic, the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu.

Exploring the metaphysics of time, this book examines key questions about the nature of time.

The book gives a detailed explanation using both the traditional and the sexual interpretations of each card, as well as detailed information on how to lay out the cards, how to give a reading and the philosophy and symbolism that lie ...

This beautifully written guide, by noted scholars Jocelyn Almond and Keith Seddon, presents a compelling overview of ancient Egyptian religious and magical beliefs.

Part autobiography, part analysis, part philosophy, part polemic, this little book explores the disquiet and despair that has coloured the author's life from childhood, and through which the malignancy of the modern world is filtered.

By turns sorrowful, yearning, humorous, but always reflective, this little book distils a fragile life - one circumscribed by fears and the trials of long-term illness - into 38 poems, most of them written in the year before the author's ...

This essay connects the author's experience of current affairs to his personal story of grief, attempting a fusing of the autobiographical with the polemical and political.