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On Kindness by Adam Phillips
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world?Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of... -
The Power And The Pain by Andrew Holecek 9781559393317
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559393317Author Andrew HolecekFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic... -
Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis by Stephen Cheeke 9780719083242
Booksplease Price: £23.54Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the... -
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre,... -
Legal Rights and Moral Rights by Matthew H. Kramer 9781009011167
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class Cynthia Cruz 9781912248919
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a... -
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell 9780465002054
Booksplease Price: £21.38In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the constrained" vision, which sees human... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in... -
Dante: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from... -
The Café on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life by John P. Strelecky 9780349439853
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The simple yet profoundly life changing story for anyone struggling to find their place in life. Gifted by millions to those they love.In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle... -
The Blame Game: How to Recover from the World's Oldest Addiction by Denis Liam Murphy
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Honest happiness and effortless living are possible. You just have to heal from a blame addiction you didn't know you had.Life is designed to be effortless. It might not seem like it right now, but a... -
On the Soul: and Other Psychological works by Aristotle
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . ' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul)... -
Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Christine M. Korsgaard 9781107401068
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.97Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in... -
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical... -
Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God by Abraham Joshua Heschel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Like the Hebrew prophets before him, the great American rabbi and civil rights leader reveals God's concern for this world and each of us. Abraham Joshua Heschel, descended from a long line of... -
The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. The result is a classic example... -
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and... -
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality Federico Campagna (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350044029
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.83We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era... -
Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt,... -
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis 9780486431857
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431857Author Thomas a KempisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Jung In A Week: Teach Yourself by Ruth Snowden
Booksplease Price: £10.34Learn in a week, remember for a lifetime!In just one week, this accessible book will give you knowledge to last forever. End of chapter summaries and multiple choice questions are all designed to... -
Being Ecological by Timothy Morton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?Is there really any... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation,... -
Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice by Robert Lawlor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the... -
The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical... -
At Home In The World: Lessons from a remarkable life Thich Nhat Hanh 9781846045325
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking and inspiring. Collected here for the first time, these stories span... -
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor 9780197759066
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Watkins Masters of Wisdom: Osho: Living Dangerously: Ordinary Enlightenment for Extraordinary Times Osho 9781780280073
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Nearly three decades after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers around the world. This inspiring compendium of spiritual wisdom and insight offers a... -
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster 9780571232567
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few... -
After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age by Stephen Batchelor
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11A renowned Buddhist teacher's magnum opus, based on his fresh reading of the tradition's earliest texts Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire... -
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Philip Goff 9781846046018
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07'Suddenly the universe appears in a new and much more revealing perspective. A splendid introduction to this fascinating idea' Philip PullmanFrom a leading philosopher of mind comes this lucid,... -
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olufe mi Taiwo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Selected as one of '100 Notable African Books of 2022' in Brittle Paper A leading African political philosopher's searing intellectual and moral critique of today's decolonisation movement. ... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat... -
How to Know Everything: Ask better questions, get better answers Elke Wiss 9781787467682
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The international bestseller that will sharpen your mind, broaden your perspective and transform your relationships._____________________________________________________WHY ARE WE SO BAD AT ASKING... -
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced... -
Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction by Brad Inwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and... -
Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem by Jonathan Shear 9780262692212
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Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo 9784805311981
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code.The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese...