Why We Fight
$18.88
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2010
Summary
Vital insights and wisdom on the perennial question of why we fight
This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to play a vital part in our lives today. In Why We Fight, Simon Van Booy curates an enlightening collection of excerpts, passages, and paintings, presenting works by Sophocles, Tacitus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780061845567 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0061845566 |
| Author: | Simon Van Booy |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperPerennial |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 114mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Harperperennial Modern Thought |
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About The Author
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children. He is the editor of three volumes of philosophy and has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, and the BBC.
His books have been translated into many languages and optioned for film. Raised in rural North Wales, he currently lives in New York where he is also a book editor and a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician.
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