books by David Wootton

books by David Wootton

books:

David Wootton

The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

David Wootton

Hackett Publishing Company, 2003

Necessary reading!
All Americans need to read this. Here lies the foundation. Our Founding Fathers had it right (and what beautiful English!)

Candide, and Related Writings

Voltaire

Hackett Pub Co Inc, 2000

Voltaire at his most sarcastic
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. A great story and important historical work in literature. Voltaire was a Renaissance Christian humanist who played a role in the development of the Enlightenment. On the one hand, the structure ...

Political Writings

John Locke, David Wootton

Hackett Publishing Company, 2003

The basis of civil government
This compilation of Locke's political writings not only contains his famed second treatise, but also suplementary essays supporting his views and espousing other particulars. The book is a must for any one interested in political philosophy in the least simply because ...

Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book

Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton

Hackett Publishing Company, 2005

Two books on Dr Faustus for the price of one!
It is just so convenient to have both the 1604 A-text of Marlowe's Dr.Faustus bound with The English Faust Book. It is in that sense an ideal undergraduate text enabling students to make proper comparisons with a source and thereby to see how Marlowe has rendered the ...

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Hackett Publishing Company, 1995

The Giant of the Self-Help Genre
Forget about Covey and the habits of highly effective people and any other book you have ever glanced at to try to pick yourself up and guide yourself out of the rat race and have a look at the greatest specimen ever conceived of the self-help genre. The Prince is a ...

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

David Wootton

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Centuries and Centuries of Medical Failure
We are proud of humanity's progress in medicine. We like our doctors; they are consistently among the professions that the public trusts the most. There are countless books on histories of medicine, citing a proud tradition from Hippocrates on down to the latest in ...

Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649-1776 (The Making of Modern Freedom)

Stanford University Press, 1994

This examination of republicanism in an Anglo-American and European context gives weight not only to the thought of the theorists of republicanism but also to the practical experience of republican governments in England, Geneva, the Netherlands, and Venice.

Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

Hackett Publishing Company, 1996

Presents unabridged works and substantive abridgments in preeminent translations, along with balanced, lucid, sophisticated introductions. This book includes a wide and balanced selection of many of the more important texts of modern political thought. To its great credit, it provides pertinent excerpts from frequently neglected authors, such as ...

Selected Political Writings

Niccolo Machiavelli

Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1994

Essential reading for anyone who likes politics
The Prince is a book everyone should read in order to understand how many kings and rulers who followed his philosphies drew their inpsiration from. Discources is simply outstanding. It will give you a deep appreciation of not only this man's erudition, but also of his ...

Modern Politcal Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

Hackett Pub Co, 2008

The second edition of David Wootton's Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche offers a new unit on modern constitutionalism with selections from Hume, Montesquieu, the Federalist, and Constant. In addition to a new essay by Wootton, this unit features his new translation of Constant's 1819 essay 'On Ancient and Modern ...

Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England

Hackett Publishing Company, 2003

The seventeenth century was England?s "century of revolution," an era in which the nation witnessed protracted civil wars, the execution of a king, and the declaration of a short-lived republic. During this period of revolutionary crisis, political writers of all persuasions hoped to shape the outcome of events by the force of their arguments. To ...

Image Analysis in Histology: Conventional and Confocal Microscopy

Cambridge University Press, 1995

Good; but for the specialist student.
This is a good text covering the important and expanding area of image analysis. However, to get the best out of it, one would need to be studying a course on Image Analysis (such as the MSc. run by the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London for whom the book is ...

Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment

Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key feature in the development of the modern world, yet it is a topic which has been little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following the Reformation. Atheism was illegal everywhere. The word itself first ...

The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian ...
David Wootton

University of Saskatchewan, 1994

This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on April 1, 1994. The length of the article is 934 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after ...