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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its …

Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw

Ancient Warfare by Harry Sidebottom, Harry Sidebottom (Very short introductions -- 117)

"This book explores the ways in which ancient society thought about conflict. Many aspects of ancient warfare are examined from …

Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Robert A. Segal

Socrates by C. C. W. Taylor (Very short introductions ;)

Euthydemus by Plato

The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. …

Cratylus. Parmenides. Greater Hippias. Lesser Hippias by Plato (Loeb Classical library [greek authors])

Protagoras (Hackett Classics) by Plato

Protagoras (; Greek: Πρωταγόρας) is a dialogue by Plato. The traditional subtitle (which may or may not be Plato's) is …

Platon Gorgias. by Thure Hastrup

The Dialogues of Plato by None None

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato …

Lysis by Plato

Laches by Plato

The Laches (; Greek: Λάχης) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of …

Charmides by Plato

The Charmides (; Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named …

Crito by Plato

The dream of enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb

"Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, …