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The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch 9780415253994
RRP: £12.99£11.94Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini 9781783788538
RRP: £10.99£7.54As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the world? How to Think Like A Philosopher is a revelatory exploration of the methods, tenets and attitudes of thought that guide... -
How to Travel by The School of Life
RRP: £14.99£11.08An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and memorable. Going travelling is one of the few things we... -
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Epictetus
RRP: £10.99£7.99'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in... -
Thinking After Heidegger David Wood 9780745616230
RRP: £17.99£16.29In Thinking After Heidegger, David Wood takes up the challenge posed by Heidegger - that after the end of philosophy we need to learn to think. But what if we read Heidegger with the same respectful irreverence that he brought to reading the Greeks,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir by Claudia Card 9780521794299
RRP: £30.99£24.83Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this 2003 volume examine all the major aspects of... -
The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy by Michael Beaney 9780198747994
£36.40During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental... -
The Metaphysics of Mind by Anthony Kenny 9780192830708
RRP: £35.99£35.94The ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gilbert Ryle have had a major influence on the work of Anthony Kenny, who has explored many aspects of the philosophy of mind in a series of books over the past twenty-five years. Modelled on the structure of Ryle's... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99£9.34Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his... -
Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
RRP: £8.99£7.05Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract... -
The Neville Goddard Collection (Paperback) by Neville Goddard 9780990964391
RRP: £20.00£18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990964391Author Neville GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 830Imprint Shanon AllenPublisher Shanon AllenWeight(grams) 1193g -
Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
RRP: £8.99£6.55Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of... -
Islamic Philosophy by Oliver Leaman 9780745645995
RRP: £17.99£15.94Although Islamic philosophy represents one of the leading philosophical traditions in the world, it has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves in the non-Islamic world. This important text provides a concise and accessible introduction... -
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher by Julian Baggini
RRP: £18.00£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287440Author Julian BagginiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm * 18mm -
Veil, The by Blake K. Healy
RRP: £17.50£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629994901Author Blake K HealyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Charisma HousePublisher Charisma House -
The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures by Jean Aitchison 9780521574754
RRP: £26.99£22.80Language is like a vast spider's web. In this volume Jean Aitchison explores the different facets of this web. She begins with the cobweb of false worries which surrounds language. She then discusses how language evolved in the human species, how... -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: £10.99£7.99It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic... -
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil 9780241467978
RRP: £12.99£9.34A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us... -
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide by Samir Chopra 9780691210674
RRP: £22.00£16.89How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it's an essential part of being humanToday, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But... -
NKJV, MacArthur Study Bible, 2nd Edition, Cloth over Board, Blue, Comfort Print: Unleashing God's Truth One Verse at a Time by John F. MacArthur 9780785223030
RRP: £40.00£28.25John MacArthur's exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word.Over 4 million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God's Word... -
Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780198245360
£37.16David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, was composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally recognised at the time. Hume, attributing the failure of his Treatise to the manner of its... -
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
RRP: £10.99£7.21Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.As a member of... -
Aesthetics and Politics by Fredric Jameson
RRP: £9.99£8.40No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over... -
Ernst Junger's Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene by Vincent Blok 9780367888749
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the work of Ernst Junger and its effect on the development of Martin Heidegger's influential philosophy of technology. Vincent Blok offers a unique treatment of Junger's philosophy and his conception of the age of technology, in which... -
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person by The School of Life
RRP: £10.00£7.34It's one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same. We marry the wrong person. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We know that perfection is... -
Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire 9780199535613
RRP: £6.99£4.81'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before... -
Samurai Arms, Armour & the Tactics of Warfare (The Book of Samurai Series): The Collected Scrolls of Natori-Ryu Antony Cummins, MA 9781786781734
RRP: £30.00£18.99This book is part of the unique Book of Samurai series that comprises the works of 17th-century samurai tactician Natori Sanjuro Masazumi, retainer and advisor to the lords of Kishu domain. It offers an unparalleled insight into the weaponry and armour... -
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £13.99£12.01First published in 1844, Soren Kierkegaard's concise treatise identified-long before Freud-anxiety as a profound human condition, portraying human existence largely as a constant struggle with our own spiritual identities.About the AuthorSoren... -
The Essential Plotinus by Plotinus 9780915144099
RRP: £11.99£10.02"The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right for an... -
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
RRP: £16.99£15.35Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps,... -
Plato: Complete Works by Plato
RRP: £63.99£52.97Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory... -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
RRP: £17.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288591Author Richard TarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint PlumePublisher PlumeWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm -
Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition by David Kishik 9783965580459
RRP: £10.00£7.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580459Author David KishikFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 178mm *... -
Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change? by Katrina Hutchison 9780199325610
RRP: £36.49£22.37Despite its place in the humanities, the career prospects and numbers of women in philosophy much more closely resemble those found in the sciences and engineering. This book collects a series of critical essays by female philosophers pursuing the... -
Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the Subject by A. C. Grayling
£43.68This is the first volume of a two-volume introduction to and guide through philosophy. It is intended to orientate, assist, and stimulate the reader at every stage in the study of the subject. Eleven extended essays have been specially commissioned from... -
Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £8.99£6.65ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of... -
Games: Agency As Art by C. Thi Nguyen 9780190052089
RRP: £34.99£30.09Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players submerge themselves in those alternate agencies. Thus,... -
Philosophy for A Level: Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind Michael Lacewing 9781138690400
RRP: £32.99£29.79Philosophy for A Level is an accessible textbook for the new 2017 AQA Philosophy syllabus. Structured closely around the AQA specification this textbook covers the two units, Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind, in an engaging and student-friendly... -
The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation Joseph Goldstein 9781611808162
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808162Author Joseph GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Transformation And Healing: The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £12.99£9.34Transformation and Healing present the ancient teaching of the Buddha on how to maintain mindfulness. The Four Methods are Mindfulness of the body, Mindfulnesss of the feelings, Mindfulness of the mind and Mindfulness of the objects of the mind...