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Long, A. A., ed. 1999. The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Contains essays by leading scholars on major Presocratics and Sophists and on topics including theology, epistemology, sensation, medicine, cosmology, causality, and poetics. The essays are accessible to beginners but are also useful for advanced students and specialists.

McKirahan, R. D. 2011. Philosophy before Socrates. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett.
First edition in 1994. A comprehensive selection of fragments and testimonia of the principal Presocratics and Sophists, translated into English and accompanied by an account of the thought of each of the philosophers covered and a discussion of the principal interpretive issues. The revised edition contains an appendix with translations of three Hippocratic writings and the Derveni Papyrus.

McKirahan, Richard D. 2012. Collections containing articles on Presocratic philosophy. Pomona Faculty Publications and Research Paper 93. Claremont, CA: Pomona College.
This list of collections containing papers on Presocratic philosophy includes many of the sources included in the present article.

Taylor, C. C. W., ed. 1997. The Routledge history of philosophy. Vol. 1, From the beginnings to Plato. London and New York: Routledge.
Contains essays on the principal Presocratics by leading scholars.

Warren, James. 2007. Presocratics: Natural philosophers before Socrates. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen.
An excellent introduction to Presocratic philosophy with frequent references to conflicting interpretations and to recent challenges to older, widely accepted views.