Classic Non-Fiction - Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology

• Author(s): Nicolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefu...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePLATO, born around 428 BC in Athens, was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens, the firs...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” ...

• Author(s): Friedrich Max Muller • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIndia: What can it Teach Us? is a captivating compilation of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a distinguished schola...

• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter | Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist ...

• Author(s): Kahlil Gibran • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Prophet (1923) is a book of 26 prose poems by the Lebanese American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. A collection of ...

• Author(s): Karl Marx Friedrick Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When...

• Author(s): Translated by Benjamin Jowett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePolitics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The title of the book literally means “the things concerning the p...

• Author(s): Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology“Consciousness does not determine life, but life determines consciousness.” The German Ideology by ...

• Author(s): Voltaire • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ as his ...

• Author(s): John Locke • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwo Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a scathing cr...

• Author(s): Francis Bacon • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Essays, first published in 1597, contains essays written in a wide range of styles—from the plain and unadorned—to the epigrammatic and...

• Author(s): Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOne of the most acclaimed Russian works of literature, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev is a philosophical fiction cutting acr...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Education & PsychologyConsidered one of the most significant works of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams is a psychoanalytical inquiry that exam...

• Author(s): M.P. Sinha • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe book traces and analyzes the causes that have fragmented the human society into warring groups. The main causes are religion and fami...