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Regime Change: Towards a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen 9781800753297
RRP: £22.00£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800753297Author Patrick DeneenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Committed Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.99£7.99'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. Letters to a German Friend, written and published... -
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
RRP: £7.99£5.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877735373Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Critical Thinking: Your Essential Guide by Tom Chatfield 9781529718522
RRP: £17.99£15.27What is critical thinking? How do you apply it in your assessments? How do you build a good argument or find evidence? Critical thinking is a set of techniques. You just need to learn them. This is your personal toolkit for demystifying critical... -
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann Wroe 9781787334458
RRP: £18.99£13.82The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page***A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***** SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT... -
Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanual Kant
RRP: £25.99£22.61The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's final major work in moral philosophy. In it, he presents the basic concepts and principles of right and virtue and the system of duties of human beings as such. The work comprises two parts: the Doctrine of Right... -
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates
RRP: £14.99£13.58It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western... -
Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis by Stephen Cheeke 9780719083242
RRP: £19.99£17.61Writing 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 encounter of literary texts and artworks. Stephen Cheeke... -
Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History by David Scott 9780231213059
RRP: £28.00£21.80What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such historical wrongs, even while recognizing that they lie beyond repair? Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of... -
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £10.99£7.99Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't.Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe?... -
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art of War: The Complete Books: The Original Text with English Translation by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781912461004
RRP: £12.99£12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912461004Author Constantin VaughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Erebus SocietyPublisher Erebus SocietyWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Philosophy: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Sharon Kaye
RRP: £14.99£10.05Written by Sharon Kaye, who is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, Philosophy: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be... -
Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living by Daniel Schreiber 9781789147650
RRP: £14.95£11.09At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own? Drawing on personal... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: £9.99£7.32These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in... -
Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £14.99£10.95June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged,... -
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £34.99£29.35Outlines of Scepticism, by the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus, is a work of major importance for the history of Greek philosophy. It is the fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, and it is also one of our most copious sources of information... -
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry'A brilliantly eloquent, incredibly insightful reimagining of liberalism' Owen Jones'Clear, brave, compelling' David Miliband'Inspiring ... impassioned ... full of hope' Zadie... -
Speaking and Being: How Language Shapes Our Lives by Kubra Gumusay
RRP: £14.99£11.11A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I can't stop talking about this book' Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets 'What a gem. ... Makes you look at the world, and yourself, afresh.' Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist... -
London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People by Warner, Kathryn 9781526776372
RRP: £19.99£14.51For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was... -
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.34'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 final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series,... -
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge 9780190685423
£30.16Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this... -
A Guide For The Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
RRP: £9.99£7.32A Guide for the Perplexed is E. F. Schumacher's classic work of philosophy and a statement of the philosophies that underpin his economic masterpiece Small is Beautiful. Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and... -
Blindness and Reorientation: Problems in Plato's Republic by C. D. C. Reeve 9780199934430
RRP: £87.00£68.85Are the just happier than the unjust? In Plato' s Republic, Thrasymachus argues that they aren't, that justice is simply the advantage of the stronger. Though Socrates apparently refutes him, Plato's brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, take up his argument... -
The Book of Thunks: is not going fishing a hobby and other possibly impossible questions to stretch your brain and annoy your friends Ian Gilbert 9781845900922
RRP: £14.99£12.30A great gift book for possibly the most impossible person to buy for! The Book of Thunks will shake up your templates, rattle your thought routines and force you to think about things differently. A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday... -
Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought by Ervin Laszlo 9781032071442
RRP: £31.99£28.73First Published in 1972, Introduction to Systems Philosophy presents Ervin Laszlo’s first comprehensive volume on the subject. It argues for a systematic and constructive inquiry into natural phenomenon on the assumption of general order in nature... -
How To Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £6.00£4.64How to Walk is part of a new series of books from Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practise. Pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated, How to Walk explains how mindful walking can be a technique... -
Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works: Definitive New Translations of the Writings of Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai! Musashi 9784805316160
RRP: £11.99£8.22The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreaking English translation of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings reveals the true meaning of the original work. Plus, definitive translations of five more known works of Musashi! This... -
Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing Thich Nhat Hanh 9780712654272
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Breathing brings the secret joy of meditation to you. You become joyful, fresh and tolerant and everyone around you will benefit.'The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing is one of the three most essentialteachings of the Buddha. In Breathe! You... -
Philosophers Who Changed History by DK 9780241656822
RRP: £25.00£17.07This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Philosophers Who Changed History places well-known philosophers in their historical and cultural context, showing you how... -
Papers and Journals by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £16.99£12.28One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Soren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, these private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and... -
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity by Wendy Brown
RRP: £42.00£33.30Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a... -
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
RRP: £16.99£12.28We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. For seventy years Socrates was a vigorous... -
Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo 9784805311981
RRP: £14.99£10.05The 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 texts-written nearly 300 years ago by Yamamoto Tsunetomo... -
The Symposium by Plato
RRP: £9.99£6.77'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, GuardianIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on... -
A New History of Greek Mathematics by Reviel Netz
RRP: £34.99£31.09The ancient Greeks played a fundamental role in the history of mathematics and their ideas were reused and developed in subsequent periods all the way down to the scientific revolution and beyond. In this, the first complete history for a century. Reviel... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00£14.29'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 who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defence... -
Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction by Brad Inwood
RRP: £8.99£6.65Stoicism 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 re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal... -
The Matter With Things (volume I & II): Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist 9781914568060
£104.61In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter,... -
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
RRP: £9.99£6.84Cult 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, whose truths have resonated with people all over the... -
Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice by Robert Lawlor
RRP: £12.99£8.83The 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 system that determines the dimension and the form of...