Modest Proposal and Other WritingsEasing poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical "solution" suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay "A Modest Proposal" (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armory and corrosive wit, striking his targets the ruling class and avaricious landlords with deadly precision. This masterly essay is accompanied by a generous selection of prose works, among them humorous pamphlets critiquing British rule in

The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954

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Leading specialists examine what it was like to study philosophy in the cultures and institutions of the Middle Ages

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focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination

To read Hobbes on his own terms is to discover a provocative rival to contemporary perspectives on morals and politics

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It also has the poem translated into a poem in Farsi in the last appendix

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John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction

” which is a big reason why this cherished classic has sold more than two million copies since it first appeared in 1958