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Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism by Professor of Philosophy Bret W Davis
RRP: £24.49£22.50This book offers an in-depth introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism. Bret Davis explores the philosophical implications of Zen teachings and koans, comparing and contrasting these with other Asian as well as Western religions and... -
How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer 9780300269307
£25.46A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that... -
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar
RRP: £31.49£27.18Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether... -
Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square by Cathleen Kaveny
RRP: £25.95£20.64American culture warriors have plenty to argue about, but battles over such issues as abortion and torture have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny reframes the debate about religion in the public square by focusing on... -
Medieval Number Symbolism by Hopper 9780486414300
RRP: £12.49£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414300Author HopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780143133582
RRP: £14.99£9.91A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to livingFirst published in the 1920's, The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century,... -
C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion by John Beversluis 9781591025313
RRP: £16.99£16.50C. S. Lewis was one of the most influential Christian apologists of the 20th century. An Oxford don and former atheist who converted to Christianity in 1931, he gained a wide following during the 1940s as the author of a number of popular apologetic... -
Evolutionary Metaphors: UFOs, New Existentialism and the Future Paradigm by David J. Moore 9781789040876
RRP: £10.99£9.37Evolutionary Metaphors is an exploration of the many occult, esoteric, imaginative as well as creative speculations that have resonated around the UFO phenomenon. Understanding the phenomena as an archetypal challenge to our cultural limitations, the... -
Mankind encountering Angels in Poetry of Iqbal by Khurram Ellahi 9789697868155
RRP: £8.00£6.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789697868155Author Khurram EllahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: £9.99£7.11Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
The Complementarity of Women and Men: Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, and Art by Paul C. Vitz 9780813233888
RRP: £34.95£32.09The Complementarity of Women and Men provides a Catholic Christian case that men and women are in certain respects quite different but also have a positive, synergistic complementary relationship. Although differences and their mutually supporting... -
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99£5.79Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional... -
Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence by B. Alan Wallace 9780861716906
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861716906Author B. Alan WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Psychedelics: Vintage Minis by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £5.99£4.46Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a... -
The Book of One: The Spiritual Path Advaita by Waite Dennis 9781846943478
RRP: £13.99£12.65A comprehensive, yet entertaining introduction to Advaita, the non-dual philosophy which provides a completely reasonable explanation for who we are and the nature of the universe. There are many self-help approaches promising enlightenment and happiness... -
Parallax of Growth: The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy by Ole Bjerg 9781509506248
RRP: £17.99£16.04Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent debt drive , whereby the creation of money... -
The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £18.99£13.61Crafted with all the skills that have made his previous books bestsellers, The Book of Secrets will be essential reading for Deepak Chopra's huge number of followers worldwide, and also appeal to everyone searching for the meaning of life, and looking... -
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 by Janek Wasserman 9781501713606
RRP: £17.99£15.90Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black... -
Science Ideated - The fall of matter and the contours of the next mainstream scientific worldview by Bernardo Kastrup
RRP: £16.99£14.61Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with 'scientific' materialism. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics, for instance, strongly indicate that there is no autonomous world of tables and chairs out there. Coupled... -
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309
RRP: £9.99£7.11Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past.'Open-minded, elegantly written and comprehensive' Daily TelegraphFrom mindfulness and meditation to yoga breaks and... -
Metamorphoses by Emanuele Coccia 9781509545674
RRP: £15.99£14.81We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis - of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don't share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in... -
Central Works of Philosophy v1: Ancient and Medieval by John Shand 9781844650132
RRP: £36.99£32.53This collection of essays showcases the most important and influential philosophical works of the ancient and medieval period, roughly from 600 BC to AD 1600. Each chapter takes a particular work of philosophy and discusses its proponent, its content and... -
Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
RRP: £20.99£19.07As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a career, we often think we can assess the options by imagining what... -
Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao by Lao Tzu 9781590305461
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590305461Author Lao TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness by Evelyn Underhill 9780486422381
RRP: £18.49£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486422381Author Evelyn UnderhillFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Black Enlightenment by Surya Parekh 9781478025191
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Black Enlightenment Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the works of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697-1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (1729?-1780),... -
The Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.The Good Book, A. C. Grayling's best-selling secular bible, is now published in b-format paperback for the first time.About the AuthorA.C. Grayling is Master of the New College... -
Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul by William Irwin
RRP: £16.95£15.20Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone's misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If everyone followed Batman's example, would Gotham be a better place? What is the Tao of... -
Compass Of Zen by Zen Master Seung Sahn
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570623295Author Stephen MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Cruelty: Human evil and the human brain by Kathleen Taylor
RRP: £19.99£15.42In this thoughtful exploration of a painful subject, Kathleen Taylor seeks to bring together the fruits of work in psychology, sociology, and her own field of neuroscience to shed light on the nature of cruelty and what makes human beings cruel. The... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: £10.99£7.77Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is... -
The Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: £9.99£7.11A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin... -
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Brian Copenhaver
RRP: £12.99£9.09'. . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised towards the Sun . . .'This rich, fascinating anthology... -
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a... -
The Strange Order Of Things: Life, Feeling and the Making of Cultures by Antonio Damsio
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe ... [A] brave and honest book' The New York Times Book ReviewThe Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that... -
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780691197210
RRP: £13.99£11.42A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jose Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £10.99£7.77Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful figure' ObserverSoren Kierkegaard, one of the most... -
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas by Joan Poliner Shapiro
RRP: £34.99£30.85The fifth edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with complex dilemmas in today's challenging, divided, and diverse... -
An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy by Alison Stone
RRP: £17.99£17.44This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between... -
Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World by Nancy Fraser 9780745644875
RRP: £17.99£16.04Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalian" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to explicit...