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Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
Category: History | Series: Canto Classics
In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance ar ...Show more
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century by Burton Richter
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Canto Classics
Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This updated, second edition assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to mor ...Show more
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Canto Classics
The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems ...Show more
Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Canto Classics Ser.
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity ...Show more
On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Canto Classics
Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become r ...Show more
Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Biography | Series: Canto Classics
Rudyard Kipling has been described as 'one of the few complete originals in English literature'. In his last work, Something of Myself, he reflects on his life and the basis of his art. Yet paradoxically this ostensibly autobiographical work (as an early critic pointed out) actually discloses very littl ...Show more
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis
Category: No Category | Series: Canto Classics
C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general introduction to medieval literature whilst the remaining essays turn to the works of major writers such a ...Show more
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition by C. S. Lewis
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Canto Classics
The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its trans ...Show more
The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm
Category: No Category | Series: Canto Classics
Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaborat ...Show more
What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin Schrodinger
Category: Science | Series: Canto Classics Ser.
Nobel laureate Erwin Schr dinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What is Life? appears here together with Mind and Matter ...Show more
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past by Douwe Draaisma
Category: No Category | Series: Canto Classics
Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as deja-vu, near d ...Show more
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