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On Dialogue by David Bohm
RRP: £16.99£15.22Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity... -
Mereology by A. J. Cotnoir 9780198908937
RRP: £22.99£21.88Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts? Are there things composed of the same parts? If you divide an object into parts, and divide those parts into smaller parts, will this process ever come to an end? Can something lose parts or gain new... -
Socratic Logic 3.1e - Socratic Method Platonic Questions Peter Kreeft 9781587318085
RRP: £32.00£31.75This new and revised edition of Peter Kreeft's Socratic Logic is updated, adding new exercises and more complete examples, all with Kreeft's characteristic clarity and wit. Since its introduction in the spring of 2004, Socratic Logic has proven to be a... -
Healing into Life and Death by Levine 9780385262194
£13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385262194Author Stephen LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
What Makes You Not A Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590305706Author Dzongsar Jamyang KhyentseFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications... -
Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt 9781642590517
RRP: £30.00£22.38In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of... -
Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality by Theodore Dalrymple 9781641771887
RRP: £14.99£11.66In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously... -
The Book of Five Rings: The Strategy of the Samurai by Miyamoto Musashi 9781788883214
RRP: £19.99£18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788883214Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)... -
LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven by Christopher M. Bache 9781620559703
RRP: £16.99£12.35A professor of religious studies meticulously documents his insights from 73 high-dose LSD sessions conducted over the course of 20 years * Chronicles, with unprecedented rigor, the author's systematic journey into a unified field of consciousness that... -
<i>Anyone</i>: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology by Nigel Rapport 9781782385264
RRP: £27.95£22.58The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 2: Letters LXVI-XCII by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.76Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Under the Hornbeams: A true story of life in the open by Emma Tarlo 9780571379804
RRP: £18.99£12.83'Reading it feels like slowing down to take a breath' - EVENING STANDARD'Open-air theatre between two covers, powered by strength of character and beautiful writing.' - NICHOLAS CRANE'A stunning book. Soulful and honest, it is a riveting, original story... -
Happiness Explained: What human flourishing is and what we can do to promote it by Paul Anand
RRP: £14.99£11.53What is human happiness and how can we promote it? These questions are central to human existence and Happiness Explained draws on scientific research from economics, psychology, and philosophy, as well as a range of other disciplines, to outline a... -
Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century by Charles Taliaferro 9780521790277
RRP: £95.00£72.57Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the seventeenth century to the present, with an emphasis on shifting views of faith and the nature of evidence. The book begins with the movement... -
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691122946
RRP: £8.99£7.01A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of... -
In Defense of Pure Reason: A Rationalist Account of A Priori Justification by Laurence BonJour 9780521597456
RRP: £24.99£21.18This book is concerned with the alleged capacity of the human mind to arrive at beliefs and knowledge about the world on the basis of pure reason without any dependence on sensory experience. Most recent philosophers reject the view and argue that all... -
Francis Bacon: The Major Works by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99£9.74This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other... -
From Early Vedanta to Kashmir Shaivism: Gaudapada, Bhartrhari, and Abhinavagupta by Natalia Isayeva 9780791424506
RRP: £24.78£24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791424506Author Natalia IsayevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £25.00£12.27A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times by Brigid Delaney 9780349436296
RRP: £18.99£12.75Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue, moderation and self-discipline, adapting this ancient knowledge to inspire practical advice for everyday life.We're all searching for answers to the biggest questions:... -
Reimagining Britain: Foundations for Hope by Justin Welby
RRP: £12.99£10.04Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sets out a radical vision for 21st century Britain in this updated paperback edition. It is now three years since Justin Welby first published his Reimagining Britain. The fundamental message of that book remains... -
Lucretius and the Language of Nature by Barnaby Taylor 9780198754909
£84.29Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things'), written in the middle of the first century BC, made a fundamental and lasting contribution to the language of Latin philosophy. The style of De Rerum Natura is like nothing else in... -
The Fashion System by Roland Barthes
RRP: £15.99£11.61Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a system of meaning and subjected it for the first time to... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656151
RRP: £25.00£17.63This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who,... -
Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward F. Kelly 9781442202061
RRP: £51.00£45.26Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication... -
The Blame Game: How to Recover from the World's Oldest Addiction by Denis Liam Murphy
RRP: £22.00£14.27Honest happiness and effortless living are possible. You just have to heal from a blame addiction you didn't know you had.Life is designed to be effortless. It might not seem like it right now, but a deep sense of confidence, freedom, and serenity is... -
A Telic Theory of Trust by J. Adam Carter 9780192888969
RRP: £70.00£63.74What is it to trust well? How do we do it? If we think of trust as a kind of aimed performance, capable of not only success but also of competence and aptness, our understanding of what it is to trust well can be put on an entirely new footing. A Telic... -
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick
RRP: £8.99£6.65By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought,... -
Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas Pierre Charbonnier 9781509543724
RRP: £19.99£18.36In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to... -
Knowledge and its Limits by Timothy Williamson 9780199256563
RRP: £27.99£21.89Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental state sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind,... -
Gorgias by Plato 9780140449044
RRP: £10.99£6.78Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral standards essential or should we give our preference to... -
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa 9780231148351
RRP: £28.00£22.20Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation,... -
The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson
RRP: £25.00£23.94In "The Meaning of the Body", Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology... -
Laws and Symmetry by Bas C. van Fraassen 9780198248606
RRP: £49.49£35.64Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists do so in terms of symmetry and invariance. This book argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. The author analyses and rejects the arguments that... -
Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic by Robert Mayhew 9780847686551
RRP: £46.00£40.02The first five chapters of the second book of Aristotle's Politics contain a series of criticisms levelled against Plato's Republic. Despite the abundance of studies that have been done on Aristotle's Politics, these chapters have for the most part been... -
Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's Classic Book of Strategy by Stephen F. Kaufman 9780804835206
RRP: £10.99£7.61This classic interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's famous Book of Five Rings is explicitly intended for the martial artist-as Miyamoto Musashi originally intended. It explains the underlying truths necessary for a full understanding of Musashi's message... -
Race Nation Class: Ambiguous Identities by Etienne Balibar
£12.48Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of contemporary racism? How can it be related to class divisions and... -
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition by Amilcar Cabral
RRP: £16.99£14.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900045Author Amilcar CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Essence Of Karate Gichin Funakoshi 9781568365244
RRP: £19.99£13.55Gichin Funakoshi is a legendary figure and the founder of Shotokan karate, the most popular style of Japanese karate, with millions of practitioners worldwide. In The Essence of Karate, Funakoshi creates, in his own words, a narrative of modern karate... -
Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality by Katharine Jenkins
RRP: £19.99£18.21The way society is organized means that we all get made into members of various types of people, such as judges, wives, or women. These 'human social kinds' may be brought into being by oppressive social arrangements, and people may suffer oppression in...