Your shortcut to the most important ideas on freedom, equality and power - revised and updated for our politically charged times.
Tom Butler-Bowdon Book order






- 2022
- 2022
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth and meaning - revised and updated for modern times where the big questions of how to think, how to be and how to see, have never been more important.
- 2021
PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7e
- 680 pages
- 24 hours of reading
Comprehensively updated to cover PHP 8 and modern best practice, this highly practical and fun book covers everything from installation through to creating a complete online content management system.
- 2019
Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in this subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Thomas Piketty's bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, here are the great reads, seminal ideas, and famous texts, clarified and illuminated for all.
- 2012
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of choice for their study and teaching of Plato's most influential work. In this brilliant revision, C D C Reeve furthers Grube's success both in preserving the subtlety of Plato's philosophical argument and in rendering the dialogue in lively, fluent English, that remains faithful to the original Greek. This revision includes a new introduction, index, and bibliography by Reeve.
- 2007
Spanning fifty books and hundreds of ideas, 50 Psychology Classics examines questions regarding cognitive development and behavioral motivations, summarizing the myriad theories that psychologists have put forth to make sense of the human experience. Butler-Bowdon covers everything from humanism to psychoanalysis to the fundamental principles where theorists disagree, like nature versus nurture and the existence of free will. In this book, you will find Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, and the most significant contributors to modern psychological thought. --From publisher's description.
- 2006
Was ist wahre Bestimmung? Wo findet sich Erfüllung und Sinn? Essenzielle Fragen, die heute aktueller denn je sind und die sich jeder von uns schon einmal gestellt hat. Tom Butler-Bowdon präsentiert Kernaussagen und Ansätze der wichtigsten Werke der Spiritualität. Von Augustinus und Dan Millman über Mutter Teresa, Hermann Hesse und Simone Weil sind alle wegweisenden Denker und Denkerinnen vertreten. Begeben Sie sich mit ihnen auf eine innere Reise der Inspiration und bereichern Sie Seele und Geist. Die hier versammelten Weisheiten umfassen mehrere Jahrhunderte, alle Kontinente unserer Erde, unterschiedliche Traditionen und verschiedene Glaubensformen.
- 2005
50 success classics
- 339 pages
- 12 hours of reading
"This brand new updated edition of Tom Butler-Bowdon's guide to the texts that will help you find success in your professional and personal life. Contains eight brand new chapters summarising recent classics such as Grit by Angela Duckworth and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Millions of us are drawn each year to find the one great book that will capture our imagination and inspire us to chart a course to personal and professional fulfillment. 50 Success Classics is the first and only 'bite-sized' guide to the books that have helped legions of readers unleash their potential and discover the secrets of success. Mapping the road to prosperity, motivation, leadership and life success, 50 Success Classics summarizes each work's key ideas to make clear how these timeless insights and techniques can inform, inspire and illuminate a path to authentic achievement"--www.amazon.com.
- 2005
50 spiritual classics
- 300 pages
- 11 hours of reading
50 Spiritual Classics captures the diversity of life journeys that span centuries, continents, spiritual traditions and secular from the historical The Book of Chuang Tzu to modern insight from the Kabbalah, from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Rick Warren’s phenomenon The Purpose-Driven Life . The first and only bite-sized guide to the very best in spiritual writing.
- 2004
Das inspirierende Kompendium tiefer Wahrheiten und Weisheiten Über den Weg zu Erfüllung und Glück wurden unzählige Bücher geschrieben – doch wie das eine finden, das einen berührt wie kein zweites? Tom Butler-Bowdon bietet Orientierung im weiten Feld der Selbsthilfe-Literatur. Seine einzigartige Sammlung zentraler Ideen der 50 wichtigsten Werke begonnen bei Buddha, Lao-Tse und Deepak Chopra bis zu John Gray bietet Orientierung und Inspiration auf der Suche nach der ganz persönlichen Wahrheit.


