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The Diamond Cutter Sutra: A Commentary by Dzogchen Master Khenpo Sodargye by Khenpo Sodargye
RRP: £14.99£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295860Author Khenpo SodargyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Instant Zen by Thomas Cleary
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556431937Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Carmen Astrologicum: The 'Umar al-Tabari Translation by Benjamin N Dykes 9781934586501
RRP: £24.95£21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934586501Author Benjamin N DykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Cazimi PressPublisher Cazimi PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Heart of Philosophy by Jacob Needleman 9781585422517
RRP: £24.00£17.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585422517Author Jacob NeedlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 274gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Aquinas after Frege by Giovanni Ventimiglia
RRP: £74.99£70.19This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege. In particular, Ventimiglia argues that Aquinas' doctrine of being can be better understood through Frege's distinction between the 'there is'... -
Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important – and Most Unexpected – Questions by Ian Olasov
RRP: £10.00£7.00The perfect gift for the smart thinker in your life.For several years Ian Olasov has set up 'Ask-a-Philosopher' booths around New York City, answering questions from passersby. Now in this book he offers answers to the real-life questions on people's... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781668050804
RRP: £9.99£6.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050804Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
A Summer with Pascal by Antoine Compagnon 9780674295414
RRP: £19.95£15.07From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law... -
Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics by Scott Rae
RRP: £35.00£34.95Outlining the distinctive elements of Christian ethics, Moral Choices is the standard text for college ethics courses.Moral questions are at the core of life's most vital issues. But today, we see a breaking down of humanity's ability to distinguish... -
Truth and Reality by Otto Rank 9780393008999
RRP: £14.50£11.99Anticipating one of the central findings of post-Freudian psychiatry, he argues that "truth" is irrelevant to the work of therapy. He contrasts the negative externalization of will, which leads to denial and guilt, with the creative power of will,... -
Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume II: Method, Metaphysics, Mind, Language by Aaron Garrett 9780198807940
RRP: £90.00£81.98A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid... -
Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century by Tracy B. Strong
RRP: £25.00£24.34From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports... -
An Introduction to Feminism by Lorna Finlayson
RRP: £23.99£20.94As well as providing a clear and critical introduction to the theory, this refreshing overview focuses on the practice of feminism with coverage of actions and activism, bringing the subject to life for newcomers as well as offering fresh perspectives... -
Taoist Feng Shui: The Ancient Roots of the Chinese Art of Placement by Susan Levitt 9780892817238
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892817238Author Susan LevittFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Destiny Books,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction by Dale Jamieson 9780521682848
RRP: £33.99£29.26What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political... -
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
RRP: £18.95£15.60Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost... -
Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture by Toby Heys 9781786611123
RRP: £113.00£99.41Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the... -
Philosophers in Exile: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, 1939-1959 by Richard Grathoff
RRP: £31.00£27.76This book presents the remarkable correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, emigre philosophers influenced by Edmund Husserl, who fled Europe on the eve of World War II and ultimately became seminal figures in the establishment of... -
The Essential Writings of Machiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli 9780812974232
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974232Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm)... -
Writing Philosophical Autoethnography Alec Grant 9781032229126
RRP: £37.99£33.64Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant's vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together. This is the first volume of narrative autoethnographic work in which invited contributing authors were... -
All Life is Problem Solving by Patrick Camiller
RRP: £41.99£36.75'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the PrefaceAll Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during... -
The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms by Margaret A. Boden 9780415314534
RRP: £37.99£33.38How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms was first published, Margaret A. Boden's bold... -
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi
RRP: £12.99£9.19In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest... -
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault 9780679724698
£9.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724698Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Marx: A Beginner's Guide by Andrew Collier
RRP: £9.99£6.61Although one of the most influential thinkers of the last millennium, Karl Marx was relatively unheralded during most of his lifetime. Famous for predicting the inevitable demise of capitalism, it was only after his death that his immortal clarion call... -
Necessary Existence by Alexander R. Pruss 9780198746898
£78.22Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original... -
Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £23.99£21.16"Is there any such thing as political philosophy?" So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranciere brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness... -
The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £14.99£13.58According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intangible and assumed. In The Scientific Outlook, Russell... -
Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, author of Joy Luck Club'A generous book and a beguiling read' Rebecca Gowers* * * * * *From the bestselling author of Born... -
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights Serena Parekh 9780415876667
RRP: £45.99£40.13Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this debate has been largely ignored because she does not speak in the same terms as contemporary... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947179
RRP: £16.99£11.27After darkness, there is always light In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a better future after the pandemic. Each contribution... -
The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine by Lucien Goldmann
£32.05This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Loewy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world... -
Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals by Pamela Hieronymi 9780691233970
RRP: £20.00£16.13An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential... -
Sunlight on the Path to Freedom: A Commentary to the Diamond Cutter Sutra by Choney Lama Drakpa Shedrup 9781937114091
RRP: £75.00£45.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937114091Author Choney Lama Drakpa ShedrupFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint Diamond Cutter PressPublisher Diamond Cutter PressWeight(grams)... -
When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life Saul Frampton 9780571234585
RRP: £12.99£8.80In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his father, his brother, and most recently his first-born... -
Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence by Bohdi Sanders Phd 9781937884062
RRP: £16.97£14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937884062Author David NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Kaizen QuestPublisher Kaizen QuestWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today Paul Raekstad 9781509535910
RRP: £16.99£15.46Many of us wonder what we could possibly do to end oppression, exploitation, and injustice. People have studied revolutions and protest movements for centuries, but few have focused on prefigurative politics, the idea of 'building the new society within... -
Athena to Barbie: Bodies, Archetypes, and Women's Search for Self by J Lenore Wright
RRP: £21.99£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506480473Author J. Lenore WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
The Art of War (Hero Classics) Sun Tzu 9781800313224
RRP: £8.99£6.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800313224Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
What is to be done? by Althusser
RRP: £12.99£11.94What is to be done? This was the question asked by Lenin in 1901 when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. 77 years later, Louis Althusser asked the same question. Faced with the tidal wave of May '68...