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Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience by Sophie Grace Chappell 9780192858016
RRP: £40.99£37.72Epiphanies is a philosophical exploration of epiphanies, peak experiences, 'wow moments', or ecstasies as they are sometimes called. What are epiphanies, and why do so many people so frequently experience them? Are they just transient phenomena in our... -
Stick Fighting: Techniques Of Self-defense by Masaaki Hatsumi
RRP: £17.00£11.54Step-by-step instructions and over 300 photographs allow the trainee to follow and learn the techniques with ease. The ideal weapon for self-defense is a stick. To find a comprehensive system of techniques using the stick, we must turn to the East, for... -
The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179109Author Andrew DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)... -
What is Self?: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness by Bernadette Roberts 9781591810261
RRP: £22.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591810261Author Bernadette RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 386g -
Nietzsche's Values by John Richardson 9780190098230
RRP: £102.50£72.57John Richardson here organizes Nietzsche's thinking around the central and unifying concept of values. Richardson maps in detail Nietzsche's arguments, which crucially distinguish three basic ways of valuing.The first is the valuingNietzsche attributes... -
Kierkegaard's Writing, III, Part I: Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691020419
RRP: £42.00£32.38Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had... -
Causation: A User's Guide by L. A. Paul
£36.98Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world. Common sense seems to have a firm grip on causation, and much work in... -
Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157573
RRP: £22.00£16.41These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom--views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of... -
Essays on Aristotle's Ethics by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
RRP: £31.00£25.03Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropriate ends. The articles in this unique collection, many new or not readily available, form a continuous... -
Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts' by Erich Fromm
£22.01In publishing Marx's Concept of Man in 1961, Erich Fromm presented to the English-speaking world for the first time Karl Marx's then recently discovered Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Including the Manuscripts and many other philosophical... -
The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy by Peter Winch 9780415423588
RRP: £14.99£13.58In the fiftieth anniversary of this book's first release, Winch's argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: £18.99£12.75George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
Is Morality Real?: A Debate by Matt Lutz 9781032023878
RRP: £27.99£24.28In this book, Spencer Case and Matt Lutz debate whether objective moral facts exist. We often say that actions like murder and institutions like slavery are morally wrong. And sometimes people strenuously disagree about the moral status of actions, as... -
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine
RRP: £20.00£13.10'Everything you wanted to know about physics but were afraid to ask' Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens__________________________When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible book... -
Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory by William J. Morgan 9781439915400
RRP: £27.99£24.14What is the purpose of sport, and how are ethical conceptions of sport shaped by the answers to this question? In Sport and Moral Conflict, William Morgan investigates, examining sport as a moral crucible that puts athletes in competitive, emotionally... -
On The Path To Enlightenment by Matthieu Ricard
RRP: £21.00£14.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800395Author Matthieu RicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia by Christopher I. Beckwith
RRP: £25.00£19.59Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy... -
Patterns in Comparative Religion by Mircea Eliade
RRP: £39.00£34.52In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in... -
The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History & Teachings by Donald S Lopez 9780060099275
RRP: £18.99£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060099275Author Donald S LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Gheranda Samhita: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation by James Mallinson 9780971646636
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971646636Author James MallinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint YogaVidya.comPublisher YogaVidya.comWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Panopticon Writings: (Wo Es War) by Jeremy Bentham
£16.65The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best... -
Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki's Western Jihad by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
RRP: £31.95£25.57The definitive account of the career and legacy of the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad.Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, "the main man who translated jihad into English." By the time he was killed by an American... -
Does it Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality by Alan Watts 9781577315858
RRP: £13.99£8.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577315858Author Alan WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff 9780300227109
RRP: £13.99£12.25A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat... -
Reality Unveiled: The Hidden Keys of Existence That Will Transform Your Life (and the World) by Ziad Masri 9780998632414
RRP: £8.99£7.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998632414Author Ziad MasriFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Awakened Media LLCPublisher Awakened Media LLC -
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: £30.00£23.29Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual... -
On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones by Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps
RRP: £22.00£17.07Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor to in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the... -
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
RRP: £11.99£8.43'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we... -
Categories by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus by Leon R Kass
RRP: £20.00£19.40A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation"Kass draws from Exodus' record of the founding of Judaism timely-even urgent-universal lessons about twenty-first-century... -
Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene! by George A. Reisch 9780812696363
RRP: £22.99£15.46Pink Floyd's sound and light shows in the 1960s defined psychedelia, but their later recordings combined rock, orchestral music, literature, and philosophy. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall ignored pop music's usual strictures to focus on themes of... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Stalinist Russia by Steve Phillips
£26.87A study of Stalinist Russia for AS and A Level History students. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography... -
The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur by Gayle L. Ormiston 9780791401378
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791401378Author Gayle L. OrmistonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: £28.00£21.80For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political... -
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 3: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 13-18 To Love Is to Know Me by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £16.99£12.07A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India's timeless scripture - from the author of its best-selling translation.(The ebook The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living 9781586381455 includes all three... -
Life Worth Living: A guide to what matters most by Miroslav Volf 9781846047213
RRP: £14.99£11.83What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger... -
Modal Logic as Metaphysics by Timothy Williamson 9780199552078
RRP: £51.00£50.86Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical... -
Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486445632
RRP: £8.99£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445632Author Epicurus EpicurusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It by David Livingstone Smith
RRP: £18.49£13.28The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again--that we would stand... -
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism by Larry A. Hickman
RRP: £22.99£20.01Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education, knowledge and truth, and experience and culture...