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The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz 9780262048538
RRP: $29.67$19.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048538Author Frank LantzFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 143mm * 18mm -
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century by Nikolas Rose
RRP: $45.15$35.78For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of... -
The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick by Jessica Riskin
RRP: $33.54$33.35Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is... -
Bioethics: The Basics by Alastair V. Campbell
RRP: $25.79$22.82Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most... -
The Eight Realizations of Great Beings: Essential Buddhist Wisdom for Realizing Your Full Potential by Brother Phap Hai
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946764867Author Hai Brother PhapFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press -
Man and People by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393001235
RRP: $27.09$22.42"This last book, from the man whose The Revolt of the Masses is now in a 25th anniversary edition, newly designed and reset, is sure of attention from those who know that he will provide active mental gymnastics in his dissection to the roots of today's... -
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility by Professor of Philosophy Dana Nelkin
$145.80The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility and its main forms, praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. The articles in the volume provide a comprehensive... -
Esoterism and Symbol by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
RRP: $14.18$8.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892810147Author R. A. Schwaller de LubiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
How to Change Your Body: What the Science of Interoception Can Teach Us About Healing through Connection by Saga Briggs 9781957869100
RRP: $21.92$15.05How to Change Your Body provides an enlightening discourse on the missing piece of the mind-body relationship - our need for social connection. What if symptoms from some of our most common afflictions-everything from depression and anxiety to addiction... -
Emile: Or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780465019311
$38.67Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile , Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed as a... -
Spinoza: A Life by Steven Nadler 9781108442466
RRP: $27.08$22.69Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with... -
Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities by Sandra Harding
RRP: $28.37$24.76In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more... -
The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age by Gordon Marino 9780062436009
RRP: $15.47$10.14"When it comes to living, there's no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most important about being human before we perish. In The Existentialist's Survival Guide, Marino has produced an honest and moving... -
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk by Justin Tosi 9780190900151
RRP: $49.01$42.02We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a... -
Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi
RRP: $48.96$42.44Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought-those that explicate how we in fact think-must be... -
Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman
RRP: $24.50$17.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385262422Author Jacob NeedlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu
RRP: $12.89$8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804768Author Lao TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature by Margaret Davies 9780367652012
RRP: $28.37$24.95This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a... -
The Monk of Park Avenue by Yun Rou 9781642506082
RRP: $18.05$14.13Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey"...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning..." -Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University#1 New Release in... -
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai
RRP: $41.22$36.12A Literary Hub Favorite Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the YearA provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism.Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found... -
Introduction to Phenomenology by Robert Sokolowski 9780521667920
RRP: $34.82$25.90This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human... -
Satires by Horace
RRP: $32.19$30.17Artful hexameters.Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BC) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory by Lisa Disch 9780190872823
RRP: $57.39$54.41The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter 9780192897930
$35.75Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how... -
Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism by Patrick Baert 9780745622477
RRP: $21.92$19.63In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places... -
Marcus Aurelius in Love by Marcus Aurelius 9780226378114
RRP: $29.67$28.55In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had... -
From Parmenides to Wittgenstein, Volume 1: Collected Philosophical Papers by G. E. M. Anscombe
RRP: $52.83$46.30Early work from a leader in analytic philosophy From Parmenides to Wittgenstein, Volume 1: Collected Philosophical Papers is part of a multi-volume publication of G.E.M. Anscombe's collected works. Writing on philosophy of mind, philosophy of action,... -
Hegel's Naturalism: Mind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life by Terry P. Pinkard 9780199330072
RRP: $56.10$34.71Terry Pinkard draws on Hegel's central works as well as his lectures on aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of history in this deeply informed and original exploration of Hegel's naturalism. As Pinkard explains, Hegel's version of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies by Michael MacDonald 9780197503607
$68.52One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once... -
The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin 9780801488337
RRP: $32.24$27.95A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us... -
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille
RRP: $28.38$22.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951566Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste by Vilem Flusser
RRP: $23.21$20.51How far apart are humans from animals-even the "vampire squid from hell"? Playing the scientist/philosopher/provocateur, Vilem Flusser uses this question as a springboard to dive into a literal and a philosophical ocean. "The abyss that separates us"... -
Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time by William Lane Craig
RRP: $27.08$19.27This remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.About the AuthorWilliam Lane Craig (PhD, University of Birmingham, England; DTheol, University of Munich) is research professor of... -
Essays on Otherness by Jean Laplanche
RRP: $49.01$43.06Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On... -
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century by Niheer Dasandi
RRP: $16.71$11.07The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy: free and... -
Self-Knowledge for Humans by Quassim Cassam 9780198776680
$42.22Human beings are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless and uncritical, and our beliefs, desires, and other attitudes aren't always as they ought rationally to be. Our beliefs can be eccentric, our desires irrational and our hopes... -
The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, 1879-1930: From Frege to Ramsey by Michael Potter
RRP: $59.33$52.28In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand... -
What Coleridge Thought by Owen Barfield 9780956942340
$22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956942340Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackImprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 490g -
Marx: A Beginner's Guide by Andrew Collier
RRP: $12.89$9.74Although 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... -
My Secret Book by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: $38.64$30.52Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book (Secretum)...