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Stoic Ethics: The Basics Christopher Gill 9781032813592
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.48At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Stoic ethics for students and for readers interested in Stoic life-guidance.It combines an explanation of the main philosophical ideas in ancient Stoic... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.93One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of... -
Distrust that Particular Flavor by William Gibson
Booksplease Price: $19.03Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer'The future's already here: it's just not evenly distributed'William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And... -
Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind by Hrishikesh Joshi
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.98Political protests, debates on college campuses, and social media tirades make it seem like everyone is speaking their minds today. Surveys, however, reveal that many people increasingly feel like they're walking on eggshells when communicating in public... -
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R. Hofstadter
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $43.68Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of... -
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction by Naomi Zack 9780192845061
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.04Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed - the demos - have a say in government. But different conceptions of democracy have... -
Essays: The Philosophy Classic by Michel De Montaigne 9780857089335
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.57An essential companion to the most relevant works of Michel de Montaigne Essays: The Philosophy Classic delivers a carefully curated collection of thought-provoking works by sixteenth-century thinker Michel De Montaigne. Exploring topics as diverse as... -
The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction by John Robertson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.86A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human... -
What I Believe: Humanist ideas and philosophies to live by Andrew Copson 9780349438429
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.48Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and Alice Roberts. Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew... -
The Tree of Yoga: The Definitive Guide to Yoga in Everyday Life by B. K. S. Iyengar
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.83The definitive guide to yoga in everyday life from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing... -
Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human by Arturo Escobar 9781350225961
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.33This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus 9780241458853
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.27'One of those books that marks a reader's life indelibly' William Boyd'A compelling, dreamlike fable' GuardianIn The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie... -
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies by John Cottingham 9781107665736
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $25.33Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy remains one of the most widely studied works of Western philosophy. This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's bestselling 1996 edition, based on his translation in the acclaimed... -
Socrates' Defence by Plato
Booksplease Price: $7.80'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.'Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th... -
Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $35.00Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political ThoughtWinner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardWhy do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor-such as single motherhood,... -
Form is... Emptiness ...is Form: The Heart Sutra by Robert Wydler Haduch 9783952440926
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952440926Author Robert Wydler HaduchFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Zentrum Fur Zen-BuddhismusPublisher Zentrum Fur Zen-BuddhismusWeight(grams)... -
Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel K. Gardner
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.37To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and ethics. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel K... -
Locke on Toleration by Richard Vernon 9780521139694
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.85John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is one of the most widely-read texts in the political theory of toleration, and a key text for the liberal tradition. However, Locke also defended toleration more extensively in three subsequent Letters,... -
For a Radical Life by Daria Platonova Dugina 9781952671920
Booksplease Price: $15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952671920Author Daria Platonova DuginaFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Prav PublishingPublisher Prav PublishingWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 152mm... -
The Path of the Warrior Ornate Box Set: The Art of War, The Way of the Samurai, The Book of Five Rings by Sun Tzu 9781398815438
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $42.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398815438Author Sun TzuImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951252Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno by Plato
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.30Meno Charmides Laches Lysis 'Do please try to tell us what courage is...' In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship;... -
The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.37Among the oldest of India's spiritual texts, the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students - in ashrams, at family gatherings, in a royal court, and in the kingdom of Death. The sages... -
A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros 9781804290446
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.40By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial... -
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $59.46At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is... -
The Logic Manual by Volker Halbach 9780199587841
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.30The Logic Manual is a clear and concise introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a complete introductory course, guiding the reader carefully through the topics in logic that are most important for the study of philosophy. It... -
Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $40.50Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of... -
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling 9780241993200
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.59'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of... -
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.75`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.' Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read... -
Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $11.68From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of embracing silenceAn author for our noisy times, full of a rare and deeply redemptive languor and perspective' Alain de... -
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill 9780861546138
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.76The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing... -
Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure - Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness William Ferraiolo 9781785355875
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.78A collection of meditations in the Stoic tradition. Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure provides access to the ruminations, practices, and applications of ancient Stoic philosophy as deployed by a contemporary professional philosopher with twenty... -
Freedom, Love and Action by J. Krishnamurti 9781570628269
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570628269Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary by Sarah Broadie
Booksplease Price: $91.73Amongst the works of Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics stands virtually alone in speaking not only to classicists, historians of ideas, and technical philosophers, but to anyone trying to make sense of practical human ideals. In this major new... -
How Not to Kill Yourself: Portrait of a Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin 9780861540488
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.83'Illuminating, riveting, and - for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are - potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. He didn't write a note... -
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.59'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' GuardianOne of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a... -
Just a Thought: A No-Willpower Approach to Overcome Self-Doubt and Make Peace with Your Mind by Amy Johnson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.66You are not your thoughts! Learn how to overcome negative thinking habits and self-doubt so you can experience more confidence, freedom, and peace of mind.When you understand how your mind works, unhelpful and noisy thoughts move to the background, and... -
Mini Philosophy: A Small Book of Big Ideas Jonny Thomson 9781472282170
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.82'Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks Why... -
The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan by Samo Tomsic 9781784781088
Booksplease Price: $53.76Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology-as witnessed by the work of Slavoj Zizek-there remain remarkably few systematic accounts of the role of Marx in Lacan's... -
Discovering Christianity: A Brief Guide to Faith and Theology Rt Hon Rowan Williams 9780281090631
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.34Rowan Williams invites you to explore with him the vital questions that go to the heart of the Christian faith: How does Jesus reveal God? Who or what is the Holy Spirit? Why do Christians treasure the Bible? What's the point of theology? Rowan...