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Slow At Work: How to work less, achieve more and regain your balance in an always-on world by Aoife McElwain
RRP: £13.99£10.01The way we work has changed. We need new tools to help navigate this world of work - not only to achieve career success, but to stay sane while doing so - and this book can be one of them. Our jobs can become such an important part of our identity... -
The Diamond in Your Pocket by Gangaji 9781591795520
£14.10A brilliant series of contemplations and insights examines one's never-ending search to find fulfillment, revealing how to stop the endless activities of one's mind and experience the brilliance and radiance of who one really is in the present moment... -
Human Nature and the Limits of Science by John Dupre 9780199248063
£45.83John Dupre warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the... -
Republic by Plato 9780785839828
RRP: £7.99£5.70The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in this highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by Odysseus Makridis. Published around 380 BCE, Plato's most famous work explores the idea of justness, among other... -
Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers by Bryan Magee 9780192854179
RRP: £20.99£17.02This book consists of fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the twentieth century. It is based on a highly successful BBC television series which had enormous impact. The informality and clarity of the... -
Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century by Michael Marder 9780262547628
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547628Author Michael MarderFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Finding Happiness: A monk's guide to a fulfilling life by Father Christopher Jamison, OSB
RRP: £9.99£7.00'His guidance is spot on. Heaven knows, most of us need all the peace we can get' Daily ExpressIncludes a brand new introduction to offer help during a pandemicWhy is 'being happy' such an imperative nowadays? What meaning do people give to happiness? In... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: £9.99£7.32A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation,... -
How Logic Works: A User's Guide Hans Halvorson 9780691211954
RRP: £20.00£15.89A concise introduction to logic that teaches you not only how reasoning works, but why it worksHow Logic Works is an introductory logic textbook that is different by design. Rather than teaching elementary symbolic logic as an abstract or rote... -
Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation by Paul Rico 9780300021899
£43.19If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of language," then the first sixty pages of this absorbing study of Freud may become the rallying point... -
A History of Religious Ideas: v. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircea Eliade
RRP: £24.00£20.52"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions...Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."--Martin E. Marty, "New York... -
Meaning by Stephen R. Schiffer 9780198243670
£34.73What is it for marks or sounds to have meaning, and what is it for someone to mean something in producing them? Answering these and related questions, Schiffer explores communication, speech acts, convention, and the meaning of linguistic items in this... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
£39.76The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study... -
Irrational Man by William Barrett
RRP: £14.99£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031387Author William BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Twenty-First Century Socialism Jeremy Gilbert 9781509536566
RRP: £9.99£9.19What causes climate change, social breakdown, rampant inequality and the creeping spread of ubiquitous surveillance? Capitalism. What is the only alternative to capitalism? Socialism. Socialism cannot, however, remain static if it is going to save... -
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
RRP: £9.99£7.32Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of... -
Philosophical Progress: In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism by Daniel Stoljar 9780198849773
£28.22Many people believe that philosophy makes no progress. Members of the general public often find it amazing that philosophers exist in universities at all, at least in research positions. Academics who are not philosophers often think of philosophy either... -
How To Read Jung by David Tacey 9781862077263
RRP: £12.99£8.80'The world today hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man' C. G. Jung Jung was the original anti-psychiatrist, who believed that the real patient was not the suffering individual, but a sick and ailing Western civilization. He was... -
The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East Alan Watts 9781608685400
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608685400Author Alan WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Jerome B. Schneewind
RRP: £34.99£28.98This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the... -
Turning Confusion Into Clarity by Yongey Mingyur
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611801217Author Yongey Mingyur RinpocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.65'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its... -
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy by A. A. Long 9780521446679
RRP: £34.99£28.71The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus,... -
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition by W. V. Quine
RRP: £26.95£21.74These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references-semantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed?... -
Hyperdream by Helene Cixous
RRP: £15.99£14.62Hyperdream is a major new novel by celebrated French author Helene Cixous. It is a literary tour de force, returning anew to challenge necessity itself, the most implacable of human certainties: you die in the end - and that's the end. For you, for me. ... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 2: Mythical Thought by Ernst Cassirer 9780300000382
£28.51The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions... -
If You Meet Buddha-Kill Him by Sheldon Kopp
RRP: £7.99£6.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553278323Author Sheldon KoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Seven Eyes Open: A Study Of The Revelation Of Jesus Christ by Alexander J B Connor 9780995693821
£24.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995693821Author Alexander J B ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 534Imprint Alexander James B ConnorPublisher Alexander James B ConnorWeight(grams) 903g -
Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel K. Gardner
RRP: £8.99£6.65To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and ethics. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel K... -
Pensees and Other Writings by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £10.99£7.21For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These were to become known as the Pensees, and they occupy a... -
The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World by James Hillman 9780882149530
RRP: £14.56£14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882149530Author James HillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 127g -
Seva: Sikh wisdom for living well by doing good by Jasreen Mayal Khanna
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Demystifies the Sikh way of living a good life in seven simple steps' Vogue India Think of any scene of disaster and you'll find Sikh volunteers rallying to the site to perform seva - pronounced 'say-va', meaning selfless service - feeding migrant... -
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... -
Human, All Too Human II / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of <I>Human, All Too Human II</I> (Spring 1878-Fall 1879): Volume 4 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £20.99£18.37Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche contains two works, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) and The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), originally published separately, then republished together in the 1886 edition of Nietzsche's works. They... -
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya 9780691183282
RRP: £13.99£11.59How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the... -
Speed and Politics by Paul Virilio
RRP: £14.99£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350408Author Paul VirilioFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears by Mary Midgley 9780415278331
RRP: £16.99£15.22According to The Guardian, Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who fee she sometimes oversteps the mark'. This book examines how science comes to be used as a substitute... -
Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead 9780029352106
RRP: £16.99£16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780029352106Author Alfred North WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 251gDimensions(mm)... -
How To Know God by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £16.99£12.47The bestselling author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind has written his most ambitious and important work yet - an exploration of the seven ways we experience God. These are shaped, not by any one religion, but by an instinct that is hardwired into the... -
The Bhagavad Gita: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation by Lars Martin Fosse 9780971646674
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971646674Author Lars Martin FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint YogaVidya.comPublisher YogaVidya.comWeight(grams) 336g