An Introduction to Western Philosophy    by Matt McGinniss
Price: Free! 12840 words. Published on March 20, 2011. .
Biographies and key ideas of twenty of the most important western philosophers, from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to Nietzsche, Foucault and Derrida.

Mad As Hell: Why Everything Is Getting Crazier    by Michael Faust
Price: $2.99 USD. 36710 words. Published by Mike Hockney on October 27, 2011. .
This is a short book about madness - the madness of the world. Every person, every city, every nation, every continent and the planet Earth itself is steadily going insane. What are the causes? Can anything be done? Can the process be arrested and even reversed? This book concentrates on the UK, but a host of other nations would have served just as well in this Mad World.