Philosophy

A very important book.... The Racial Contract has the potential to radically challenge many of us to reevaluate how we think about social contract theory. As well, to take the arguments that Mills makes is to be prepared to rethink about the concept of...

This 1989 book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition which offers a toolbox of mechanisms - nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels - that can be used to explain complex social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895267153Author Natsume SosekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Publisher Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Are we free, whether we know it or not? Or is our sense of freedom merely an illusion? Rudolf Steiner tackles this age-old problem in a new way. He shows that by taking account of our own activity of thinking, we can know the reasons for our actions. And...

A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861716685Author Ajahn BrahmFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156588904Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 273g

Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain...

The second edition of David Wootton's Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche offers a new unit on modern constitutionalism with selections from Hume, Montesquieu, the Federalist, and Constant. In addition to a new essay by...

Most people think of ecstasy in terms of sexual ecstasy, which Tantric sex expert Margot Anand wrote about in her bestselling The Art of Sexual Ecstasy. Now, in The Art of Everyday Ecstasy, Anand expands our definition of ecstasy and shows how we can...

The Cloud of Unknowing was the work of an unknown 14th-century English writer with a powerful message of God's unconditional love in the face of despair. Johnston's theological treatment of this and other works by the same writer makes a conscious...

Easwaran's best-selling translation of this classic Buddhist text The Dhammapada is reliable, readable, and profound.Dhammapada means "the path of dharma," the path of harmony and righteousness that anyone can follow to reach the highest good. The...

This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes prepared on three continents helps us remember that environmental defense is nothing less than "Self" defense. Including magnificent illustrations of Australia's rainforests, Thinking Like a...

Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics,...

The exciting conclusion to the Brightstorm twins' trilogy within The Brightstorm Chronicles! Arthur, Maudie, and the rest of the Aurora crew are going on a mission to the Volcanic North, where years before their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625671Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808179Author Richard FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The field of phenomenological psychopathology (PP) is concerned with exploring and describing the individual experience of those suffering from mental disorders. Whilst there is often an understandable emphasis within psychiatry on diagnosis and...

Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no...

Since its first publication in 1950, The Right Way to Play Chess has taught chess to generations of beginners, taking them to the standard expected of good club players.It gives full details of exactly how to play the game, explains basic theory and...

Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177815Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm)...

Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer'The future's already here: it's just not evenly distributed'William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And...

In this book, legal scholar Randy Barnett elaborates and defends the fundamental premise of the Declaration of Independence: that all persons have a natural right to pursue happiness so long as they respect the equal rights of others, and that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602930001Author A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat HardbackPage Count 980Imprint Krishna Books IncorporatedPublisher Krishna Books...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 'Know thyself' is said to have been one of the maxims carved into the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. On the face of it, this does not seem like a very difficult task. My self is with me at every moment...

Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world's best-known and most influential philosophers.In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom...

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb...

Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347);...

Games 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,...

'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics editionSimone Weil (1909-1943) is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456459666Author William B IrvineFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210316Author B.K.S. IyengarFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

'Omoiyari is a form of selfless compassion - putting yourself in the shoes of others, and from their perspective anticipating their needs, acting in a way that might make them at ease, happy or comfortable.' This book...

This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how...

A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to philosophy.Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This philosophy book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681839Author Brad WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486426914Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...