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Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav 9780060959685
RRP: £17.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959685Author Gary ZukavFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 15mm * 3mm -
One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality by Kevin Aho 9781509546909
RRP: £15.99£14.41A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn't given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the... -
On What Matters: Volume One by Derek Parfit 9780199681037
RRP: £26.99£23.20On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of... -
On Failure: How to Succeed at Defeat by The School of Life
RRP: £16.00£11.57A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing... -
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami 9781786997111
RRP: £9.99£7.67In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of... -
From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis by Frank Jackson 9780198250616
RRP: £45.49£35.64Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he argues that there is nothing especially... -
Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times by Nicole Shukin
RRP: £19.99£17.54The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies-two subjects seldom theorized together-signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the animal,"... -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta 9780691247632
RRP: £30.00£23.29How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social... -
Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson
£13.86This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It... -
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£15.22Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a... -
Just Jones: Sometimes a Thing Is Impossible . . . Until It Is Actually Done (A Noticer Book) by Andy Andrews 9780785226567
RRP: £17.99£15.96From New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews comes the return of one of our favorite characters: Jones, the Noticer, whose wise stories have comforted and guided millions of readers. In this third volume of The Noticer series, navigate the hope... -
The Philosopher's Toolkit by Peter S. Fosl
RRP: £15.95£14.38The third edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection. The book features significantly revised, updated, and expanded... -
Creativity: A Very Short Introduction by Vlad Glaveanu
RRP: £8.99£6.61Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From... -
The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard by Ollivier Pourriol 9781788163286
RRP: £9.99£8.07Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better at everything. In the realm of love, what could be less seductive than someone who's trying... -
Philosophical Investigations by Michael O'Sullivan
RRP: £6.50£6.11Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £16.99£15.22Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of... -
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything by George Gurdjieff
RRP: £20.00£14.69BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON is Gurdjieff's world-famous cosmological epic. It examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world, led by the 'all-wise Beelzebub'. Through this cosmological allegory - rich in... -
Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue by John J. Davenport 9780812694390
RRP: £34.99£23.02The 1990s saw a revival of interest in Kierkegaard's thought, affecting the fields of theology, social theory, and literary and cultural criticism. The resulting discussions have done much to discredit the earlier misreadings of Kierkegaard's works. This... -
Utilitarianism (Annotated) by John Stuart Mill 9780997952742
RRP: £6.99£6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997952742Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Coventry House PublishingPublisher Coventry House PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes by Marcel Kuijsten 9780979074431
RRP: £16.95£15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979074431Author Marcel KuijstenFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Julian Jaynes SocietyPublisher Julian Jaynes SocietyWeight(grams) 152g -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: £26.99£25.57At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism... -
Bertrand Russell on God and Religion by Bertrand Russell 9780879753238
RRP: £19.99£15.02"I think all the great religions of the world - Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Communism - both untrue and harmful. It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true." Bertrand Russell... -
Happy Moments: How to create experiences you'll remember for a lifetime by Meik Wiking
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Meik's new book will change the way you think' Dr Rangan Chatterjee___________________________________________________________________________From the same author that brought us The Little Book of Hygge, this book reveals the secret to filling your... -
How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566144Author Massimo PigliucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind by Greg Currie 9780199669646
RRP: £41.99£41.74Through much of the twentieth century, philosophical thinking about works of art, design, and other aesthetic products has emphasized intuitive and reflective methods, often tied to the idea that philosophy's business is primarily to analyze concepts... -
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science by Andy Clark
£83.44Ranging across both standard philosophical territory and the landscape of cutting-edge cognitive science, Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Second Edition, is a vivid and engaging introduction to key issues, research, and... -
Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop by Max H. Bazerman
RRP: £22.00£16.68What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about... -
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
RRP: £10.99£7.51The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics. These... -
Hospitality, Volume II by Jacques Derrida 9780226831305
RRP: £36.00£30.37Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures,... -
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele
RRP: £12.99£8.48"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost anyone... -
How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
RRP: £9.99£6.70Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that... -
Can't We Make Moral Judgements? by Mary Midgley
£18.09How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely turns a... -
Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.79The statesman on statecraft.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius ... -
The World of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: £16.99£15.22'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science - and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' -... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks 9781473617315
RRP: £20.00£13.75We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the state has done much to contain the worst excesses of... -
The Forbidden Universe: The Occult Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God by Lynn Picknett
RRP: £10.99£7.40Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God.All... -
Foucault - The Key Ideas: Foucault on philosophy, power, and the sociology of knowledge: a concise introduction by Paul Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.40Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the life, works and ideas of this ground-breaking modern philosopher. This book will not only guide you through the events of Foucault's life and help you to understand his most complex ideas with... -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
RRP: £17.99£14.24Apologies 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 -
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian L. Weiss 9780671657864
£12.82From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic New York Times bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved-now featuring a new afterword by... -
The Life-Giving Sword by Yagyu Munenori 9781590309902
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309902Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...