Books like Great treasury of Western thought by Mortimer J. Adler

A series of spiritual exercises for leading a meaningful life, 2,000 years old and still relevant today.

Bertrand Russell presents Western philosophy as a living part of society, showing how ideas shape, and are shaped by, the political and social life of different communities.

A concise guide that surveys the main ideas of Western philosophy for both students and casual readers.

A compendium of historical and contemporary deceptions, from forged Vatican documents to Hitler’s fabricated diaries, exploring con artists, media manipulation, military ruses, scientific fraud, and impostor legends.

A compact, authoritative reference of quotations, proverbs, and phrases from ancient and modern literature, tracing each to its original source for writers, speakers, and scholars.

An alphabetical compilation of over 20,000 thematic and biographical entries with key-word and biographical indexes.

A medieval masterpiece by Boethius that blends prose and verse to explore fate, fortune, and the nature of happiness through a dramatic dialogue between the author and his philosophical muse.

For over 50 years, Oxford's Dictionary Department has been collecting, sourcing, researching, and authenticating quotations on an international scale. In doing so, it has created one of the richest language resources in use anywhere in the world today, and has developed the most thorough and reliable editorial procedures. For each newly discovered quotation, detailed follow-up research is carried out to verify its authenticity and to provide clear details of its context and background. Fully authenticated quotations are stored in a special electronic database, the major source of material for new Oxford quotation dictionaries and new editions of existing bestsellers. Clear information about the context of each quotation is readily available, and immediate access is provided to all the salient details of attribution and source. In addition, Oxford's keyword indexes ensure that particular quotations can be instantly retrieved.