Harwood D. Philosophy. A Beginner's Guide to the Ideas of 100 Great Thinkers

London: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2010. — 192 p.
In a series of concise and easy-to-follow profiles, this essential guide distills the thoughts of the world's most influential minds and explains their answers to some of philosophy's key questions. Who am I? Is there a Supreme Being? What is truth? Do we have free will? Why do bad things happen? How should we live? Is death the end of everything? What is the meaning of life?
Philosophers include: Thales, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Origen, Averroes, St Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Machievelli, Hobbes, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Paine, Hegel, Schopenhauer, JS Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx, Engels, Piers, James, Nietzsche, Russel, Wittgenstein, Popper, Sartre, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Ayer, Feyerabend, Foucault, Chomsky, Derrida and many, many more.