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Shinto by Ian Reader 9781857334333
RRP: £7.99£6.33"Simple Guides Shinto" provides a concise and accessible introduction to Shinto. Written without bias, this guide presents engaging descriptions of the key concepts, beliefs and practices. Pocket sized and presented in an accessible format with clearly... -
Life After Death: The Book of Answers by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £14.99£11.11Dr Deepak Chopra, the world-famous pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, addresses one of the fundamental questions of existence: what happens when we die?. Drawing upon personal experience, the wisdom of ancient Vedic philosophy and... -
Christ the Heart of Creation by Rowan Williams
RRP: £25.00£18.30In this wide-ranging book, Rowan Williams argues that what we say about Jesus Christ is key to understanding what Christian belief says about creator and creation overall. Through detailed discussion of texts from the earliest centuries to the present... -
The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law by Victor Tadros 9780199554423
RRP: £125.00£84.75Every modern democratic state imprisons thousands of offenders every year, depriving them of their liberty, causing them a great deal of psychological and sometimes physical harm. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, the risk of the offender being... -
Hua-Yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra by Francis H. Cook
RRP: £23.95£23.23Hua-yen is regarded as the highest form of Buddhism by most modern Japanese and Chinese scholars. This book is a description and analysis of the Chinese form of Buddhism called Hua-yen (or Hwa-yea), Flower Ornament, based largely on one of the more... -
Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks
RRP: £16.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
What's the Use of Philosophy? by Philip Kitcher 9780197657249
RRP: £15.99£13.90What's the use of philosophy? Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be. Kitcher's portrait of the discipline is not a familiar defense of the importance of... -
Archetype of the Apocalypse: Divine Vengeance, Terrorism, and the End of the World by Edward F. Edinger
RRP: £21.99£16.66The collective belief in the End of the World, as described in the Biblical Book of Revelation, can be seen in public reaction to terrorist outrages such as those of Sept. 11, in the preoccupation with disasters, in the obsession with UFO's and the... -
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell 9780691154695
RRP: £30.00£24.06A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest... -
Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI by Stuart G. Shanker
RRP: £53.99£46.87Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI is a valuable contribution to the study of Wittgenstein's theories and his controversial attack on artifical intelligence, which successfully crosses a number of disciplines, including philosophy,... -
Inside the Now: Meditations on Time Thich Nhat Hanh 9781937006792
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937006792Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 184mm * 200mm... -
Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy by Dale Lyles 9780692965962
RRP: £15.18£11.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692965962Author Dale LylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Boll Weevil PressPublisher Boll Weevil PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression Franco Berardi 9781915672513
RRP: £12.99£8.83Depression is rife amongst young people the world over. But what if this isn't depression as we know it, but instead a reaction to the chaos and collapse of a seemingly unchangeable and unliveable future? In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that... -
Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology by Tim Crane
RRP: £42.99£41.40This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, which set the extracts in context and guide the reader through them. The book is... -
The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am by Richard Greene 9780812695588
RRP: £12.99£8.87Covering everything from Aristotle to ziti, this title explores such topics as: is Tony Soprano a good man?; is Carmella a feminist?; morally speaking who is the worst person on "The Sopranos"; is watching "The Sopranos" harmful to... -
The Wheel of Life: Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect Dalai Lama XIV 9781614293279
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293279Author Dalai Lama XIVFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
How to Know Everything: Ask better questions, get better answers Elke Wiss 9781787467682
RRP: £10.99£7.99The international bestseller that will sharpen your mind, broaden your perspective and transform your relationships._____________________________________________________WHY ARE WE SO BAD AT ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS?In an increasingly polarized world, asking... -
Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period by Nigel Copsey 9780230006485
RRP: £44.99£44.97This volume examines the varieties of anti-fascism in inter-war Britain. Ordinarily anti-fascism is defined in terms of anti-fascist activism. By extending the scope of the concept, this book breaks new ground. Chapters examine political parties, the... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9780195014761
RRP: £11.49£8.33Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art... -
Buddhist Psychology by Caroline Brazier
RRP: £10.99£6.67Western therapeutic approaches have often put considerable emphasis on building self-esteem and enhancing a positive sense of self. This book challenges the assumption behind this approach. Most of us protect ourselves against being fully alive. Because... -
Malebranche by Andrew Pyle
RRP: £43.99£38.84Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) is one of the most important philosophers of the seventeenth century after Descartes. A pioneer of rationalism, he was one of the first to champion and to further Cartesian ideas.Andrew Pyle places Malebranche's work in... -
Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Prof Jonathan I. Israel 9780198857488
RRP: £39.99£35.83A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own... -
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £16.99£12.28The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by... -
A Journey In Ladakh Andrew Harvey 9781844130481
RRP: £15.99£11.79High up in the remote mountain passes on the Indian border with Tibet, China and Pakistan, Ladakh has been a centre for Buddhist meditation since three centuries before Christ and is one of the last places on earth where a Tibetan Buddhist community... -
Hellenistic Philosophy by John Sellars
£27.89The Hellenistic period was a rich and exciting time for philosophy. It saw the birth of two new schools of thought, Epicureanism and Stoicism, and important developments in Plato's Academy. Aristotelians and Cynics were also active during the period, all... -
The Predictive Mind by Jakob Hohwy 9780199686735
£37.74A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive... -
Space from Zeno to Einstein: Classic Readings with a Contemporary Commentary by Nick Huggett
RRP: £38.00£36.03Learning through original texts can be a powerful heuristic tool. This book collects a dozen classic readings that are generally accepted as the most significant contributions to the philosophy of space. The readings have been selected both on the basis... -
Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion by Mohammed A. Bamyeh
RRP: £24.99£22.37How do old ideas continue to appear relevant in a modern world? A sociological approach to Islam allow us to approach an answer to this question. In Lifeworlds of Islam, Mohammed A. Bamyeh shows that Islam has typically operated not in the form of... -
The Byzantine Platonists, 284-1453 by Frederick Lauritzen
RRP: £65.00£57.87This volume brings together articles by sixteen leading scholars on a cross-section of Platonists authors-Christian and non-Christian-from early through late Byzantium philosophy, including the Capaddocians, Cyril, Proclus, Damascius, Dionysius, George... -
Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
£25.87The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now available for the first time in one complete volume. Written at... -
Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown
RRP: £8.99£6.65With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West, who see it as either... -
On War Carl Von Clausewitz 9781857151213
RRP: £25.00£18.30ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832 it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of... -
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £11.99£9.96What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek... -
Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity by Nelson Maldonado-Torres 9780822341703
RRP: £23.99£20.84Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political... -
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich
RRP: £38.00£30.64Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money. Yet... -
You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity by Hans-Georg Moeller
RRP: £25.00£19.59More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we are perceived by a broader public. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our self-presentation accordingly... -
The Art of War (Collins Classics) by Sun Tzu 9780008296445
RRP: £7.99£5.59HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The ancient Chinese art of warfare written by military strategist Sun Tzu in the 5th century BC.About the AuthorSun Tzu was a Chinese general, military... -
Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well by Dr Jamie Carlin Watson 9781350232938
RRP: £24.99£22.28'You shouldn't drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.' Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right? For anyone tackling philosophical logic for the first time, here is a practical... -
Morality: An Introduction to Ethics by Bernard Williams 9781107604766
RRP: £13.99£11.48In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains,... -
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant by Richard Schacht 9780393929089
RRP: £39.99£37.66The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant provides a comprehensive introduction to the predominantly European ("Continental") interpretive tradition of philosophy after Kant in one volume, and to the now predominantly Anglo-American analytic...