Philosophy & World Religion

Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? This book looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined.

Based on the fable of a man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, this text became the life work of Germany's greatest poet, Goethe. It is the dramatic poem that charts the life of a deeply flawed individual and his fight against despair and the nihilism of the Mephistopheles.

Explains more than 400 -isms and -ologies.

How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?

The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. Grayling