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Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction by Tim Bayne
RRP: £8.99£6.45What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good... -
Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99£7.77This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says in his introduction, "the ground is complicated, strewn with abandoned fortresses and trenches, fought over by shifting... -
The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers by Margo Anand
RRP: £18.99£17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874775815Author Margo AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: £16.99£15.07Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of... -
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Seneca 9780691175577
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own... -
Questionnaire by Dr. Evan Kindley
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to... -
Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian
RRP: £22.49£20.37What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating... -
Kant: A Biography by Manfred Kuehn
RRP: £30.99£25.86This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known... -
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty 9780521367813
RRP: £22.99£17.72In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of... -
Might is Right: or the Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard 9781682040232
RRP: £9.88£8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682040232Author Ragnar RedbeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Metal-Inex IncPublisher Metal-Inex IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life by Mike Rucker
RRP: £16.99£12.28Discover compelling scientific evidence for the value of fun - and of how having more of it will help you achieve better work-life balance, reduce stress and much more. Doesn't it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes?There is... -
Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century by Alexander Jacob 9780761818878
RRP: £45.00£39.49Nobilitas is a study of the history of aristocratic philosophy from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century that aims at providing an alternative to the liberal democratic norms, which are propagated today as the only viable socio-political system... -
Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach by Michael Freeden 9780198294146
RRP: £61.00£45.37Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. But no one has yet satisfactorily explained the nature of ideologies themselves. In this important study, Michael Freeden offers a ground-breaking approach to the... -
Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism by Erik J. Wielenberg 9780198812005
£29.72Erik J. Wielenberg draws on recent work in analytic philosophy and empirical moral psychology to defend non-theistic robust normative realism and develop an empirically-grounded account of human moral knowledge. Non-theistic robust normative realism has... -
The Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess by Svend Brinkmann 9781509531578
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Because you're worth it', proclaims the classic cosmetics ad. 'Just do it!' implores the global sports retailer. Everywhere we turn, we are constantly encouraged to experience as much as possible, for as long as possible, in as many ways as possible... -
Parmenides' Vision: A Study of Parmenides' Poem by Stuart B. Martin
RRP: £78.00£68.88This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called "the Truth,"... -
The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition by Axel Honneth
RRP: £18.99£16.87In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and... -
A Voice of One's Own: a story about confidence and self-belief by The School of Life
RRP: £15.00£10.92A beautifully photographic therapeutic novel which teaches us about our own emotions through a young woman's journey of self-discovery. This is a novel with a striking mission at its heart: not just to tell us a story but to show us - through the... -
Mencius by Mencius
RRP: £12.99£9.09Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with kings, dukes and military men, as well as other... -
Giften by Leyla Suzan 9781782693178
RRP: £7.99£5.50A BLIGHTED LAND Ever since The Darkening, survival has been a struggle. The people of the Field toil on parched earth, trying to forge a life amid dwindling resources. A GIFT As one of the Giften, Ruthie is a saviour to her isolated community: her... -
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits by Raven Smith
RRP: £8.99£6.02'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.' ST STYLE MAGAZINE 'Irresistibly readable' DOLLY ALDERTON 'You'll laugh. You'll cry.' LENA DUNHAM ... -
The Free World: A Cultural History of the Cold War by Louis Menand
RRP: £30.00£27.68Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
Medieval Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 4 by Peter Adamson
RRP: £12.99£9.49Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history of philosophy, yet one of the... -
The Weirdness of the World by Eric Schwitzgebel
RRP: £28.00£19.75How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre-and why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle 9780691224190
RRP: £18.99£15.12A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In... -
Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6 by Peter Adamson 9780192856418
RRP: £28.99£20.68Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Michael Swanton
RRP: £18.99£13.61The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated.Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle marks the beginning of the... -
Practical Ethics by Peter Singer
RRP: £29.99£26.67For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most... -
The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida by Dr. Sean Burke
RRP: £31.00£25.65For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Sean Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows... -
Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World by Margret Grebowicz
RRP: £9.99£6.80In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there". Today the question "why do this?" is included in nearly every mountaineering story or interview. Meanwhile, interest in climbing is steadily on the... -
The Laws by Plato
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form a code of conduct for all aspects of life in his ideal... -
Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy by Karl Jaspers
RRP: £12.99£11.46One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own philosophical thought. In Jaspers' view, the source of... -
Practical Zen for Health, Wealth and Mindfulness by Julian Daizan Skinner
RRP: £12.99£12.88Bringing the body-mind insights of Rinzai Zen from the mountains of Japan to the Western world, Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner and Sarah Bladen present simple meditation techniques to help achieve health, wellbeing and success.Taking the reader through... -
Railways and Industries in North East Wales and Deeside by Shorland-Ball, Rob 9781526753779
RRP: £25.00£17.62Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone... -
On Divorce: Portraits and voices of separation: a photographic project by Harry Borden by The School of Life 9781915087393
RRP: £18.00£12.89On Divorce is the debut title in a new portrait photography series by The School of Life. The photographs and accompanying texts were captured and recorded over two years by British photographer Harry Borden (himself divorced). The images are a mirror... -
Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £21.99£19.34Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning,... -
Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms by Kimberley Brownlee
RRP: £23.99£21.66We are deeply social creatures. Our core social needs - for meaningful social inclusion - are more important than our civil and political needs and our economic welfare needs, and we won't secure those other things if our core social needs go unmet. Our... -
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive it by David Fleming
RRP: £40.00£27.75Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's... -
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9780226026756
RRP: £15.00£14.87The "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires... -
John Wesley's The Character of a Methodist: Set in Modern Language with Introduction and Suggestions for Group Use by David Wentz 9781733128537
RRP: £7.49£5.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733128537Author David WentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Doing ChristianityPublisher Doing ChristianityWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...