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An Introduction To Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki 9780712650618
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The basic idea of Zen is to touch the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible.'In this widely praised introduction, Dr D.T. Suzuki presents the nature, technique and practice of Zen with exceptional clarity, wisdom... -
Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics: New Edition by Earl Conee
RRP: £11.99£8.66Riddles of Existence makes metaphysics genuinely accessible, even fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulating they can be to think about. No philosophical background is required to enjoy this book. It is ideal for... -
Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogacara Buddhism Matters William S Waldron 9781614297260
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614297260Author William S WaldronFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from its Natural Origins to its Modern Expression by W.A. Mathieu 9780892815609
RRP: £43.00£28.89W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, ""The rules of music--including... -
Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy by Walter R. Ott 9780199664689
RRP: £51.00£34.23Some philosophers think physical explanations stand on their own: what happens, happens because things have the properties they do. Others think that any such explanation is incomplete: what happens in the physical world must be partly due to the laws of... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Hobbes' Leviathan by Glen Newey
RRP: £25.99£22.63Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ideas and political thought, and his seminal text Leviathan is widely recognised as one of the greatest works of political philosophy ever written.The Routledge Guidebook to... -
On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death by Jean Amery
RRP: £18.99£16.72" . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " -Kirkus ReviewsJean Amery (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down... -
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
RRP: £14.99£13.58Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and... -
Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern: A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de Leon in Medieval Venice by James C. Harrington 9780761865421
RRP: £35.00£30.95In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Leon, and Meister Eckhart-three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first... -
Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives Mirko Farina 9780198877301
RRP: £80.00£72.66This book offers a collective study of issues to do with experts and expertise, a topic of tremendous contemporary significance. The perspectives are philosophical but draw on relevant work from the sciences and social sciences. In addition, in keeping... -
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £16.99£12.28The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few... -
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 9780141395098
RRP: £12.99£9.48'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a... -
Humour: A Very Short Introduction by Noel Carroll
RRP: £8.99£6.65Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tension within a... -
Faith: A Very Short Introduction Roger Trigg 9780192849267
RRP: £8.99£6.82Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring What is faith? It usually means religious belief, and sometimes diverse religions are grouped together as 'faiths', with reference to 'faith leaders' or 'faith schools'. What we have faith in matters,... -
The Psychology of Religion Vassilis Saroglou 9780815368120
RRP: £12.99£12.11Does religion positively affect well-being? What leads to fundamentalism? Do religious beliefs make us more moral? The Psychology of Religion explores the often contradictory ideas people have about religion and religious faiths, spirituality,... -
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle
RRP: £7.99£5.98'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and... -
The Moral Status of Combatants: A New Theory of Just War by Michael Skerker 9780367521080
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book develops a new contractualist foundation for just war theory, which defends the traditional view of the moral equality of combatants and associated egalitarian moral norms.Traditionally it has been viewed that combatants on both sides of a war... -
Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction by Steven Knepper 9781509560998
RRP: £17.99£16.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Moral Dilemmas: and Other Topics in Moral Philosophy by Philippa Foot 9780199252848
RRP: £40.99£31.79Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001... -
Pragmatism and Idealism: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality by Robert B. Brandom 9780192870216
RRP: £12.99£12.17In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel. During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized... -
The Little Book of Zen: A Beginner's Guide to the Art of Zen by Astrid Carvel
RRP: £7.99£5.49How can we be happy? How should we treat others? How should we spend our time? Discover the path to peaceful living with this beginner's guide to the ancient practice of ZenZen is a philosophy for living in a state of kindness, gratitude and awareness,... -
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault 9780415287531
RRP: £16.99£15.22In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual... -
The Four Agreements Companion Book by Don Miguel Ruiz
RRP: £12.99£8.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878424488Author Don Miguel RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Publisher Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9781907312540
RRP: £11.99£8.22Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance In On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman philosopher who wrote on the fleeting nature of existence... -
The Love of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy for Theologians by Andrew Davison
RRP: £28.00£27.19From the dawn of Western thought to the present day, The Love of Wisdom tells the story of philosophy as something intensely theological, both in its insights and its wrong turns. The book will be invaluable for any student of theology or intellectual... -
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry Thoreau
RRP: £7.99£5.98Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Analects by Confucius 9780143106852
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation.China's first and greatest teacher, Confucius traveled from state to state as an itinerant philosopher. The Analects preserves his major teachings, as compiled by his... -
Unbelievable?: Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists, I'm Still a Christian by Justin Brierley
RRP: £10.99£7.99Conversations matter. Yet, recently, good conversations about faith have been increasingly squeezed out of the public sphere. Seeking to reopen the debate, Justin Brierley began to invite atheists and sceptics on to Premier Christian Radio to air... -
Travels with Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age by Daniel Klein 9781780744124
RRP: £7.99£5.69Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we try to delay the arrival of old age, using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry. But in the process, are we missing out on a distinct... -
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle 9780140445107
RRP: £10.99£7.99With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the... -
The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan 9780520243866
RRP: £30.00£23.29More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered... -
There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew
RRP: £9.99£6.84A wave of modern atheists have taken center stage and brought the long-standing debate about the existence of God back into the headlines. Spearheaded by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, this 'new atheism' has found a powerful place... -
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King, Jr.
RRP: £5.99£4.63'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival'Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the... -
Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation Larry Rosenberg 9781590301364
RRP: £16.99£12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301364Author Larry RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of... -
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer by William Irwin
RRP: £24.99£18.80A light-hearted introduction to philosophy through the antics of the Simpsons, television's animated family. These essays on the silly, absurd, hyper-ironic and strangely philosophical world that is Springfield - the town without a state - explore... -
The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind by Giovanna Colombetti 9780262533768
£35.64A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science. In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in... -
Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice by Matt Sleat
RRP: £80.00£61.89Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to... -
Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection by Soren Kierkgaard 9780061875991
£11.78In "Spiritual Writings", renowned Oxford theologian George Pattison presents previously neglected Christian writings that will forever alter our understanding of the great philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. In fact, Pattison argues that the Kierkegaard known... -
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780521630160
RRP: £49.99£43.75The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche's discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under which it will decline, his analysis of the sources of...