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The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements by Ben Eastham
RRP: £7.99£5.41Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal... -
Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way Chris Fraser 9780198889861
RRP: £70.00£63.74Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way presents a richly detailed, philosophically informed interpretation of the personal and interpersonal ethics found in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi, introducing a unique Daoist approach to ethics focusing on the concept... -
The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism by Jean Smith 9780609804667
RRP: £13.99£10.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609804667Author Jean SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9781853264740
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose. More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are... -
Disruption: Why Things Change by David Potter
RRP: £26.49£22.39How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces... -
The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780007420070
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to... -
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser
£13.22Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of... -
Hope in the Age of Anxiety by Anthony Scioli 9780195380354
RRP: £36.49£31.10Economic collapse, poverty, disease, natural disasters, the constant threat of community unrest and international terrorism--a quick look at any newspaper is enough to cause almost anyone to feel trapped and desparate. Yet the recent election also... -
Jesus and Philosophy by Don Cupitt
RRP: £17.99£17.18Around twenty years or so after his death, the fiery and interesting Jewish teacher Jesus of Nazareth was made into the personification of his own teaching, and given an exalted cosmic status. Within a few decades he had been so completely buried by... -
Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living by David Fideler 9781324036609
RRP: £12.99£9.63Stoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognised as the most talented and humane writer of the Stoic tradition,... -
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780745612386
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the... -
Godel's Proof by Ernest Nagel 9780415355285
RRP: £12.99£11.94'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' - The GuardianIn 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic... -
Experiencing God Day by Day: Devotional by Henry T. Blackaby 9780805444780
RRP: £15.99£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805444780Author Henry T. BlackabyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Broadman & Holman PublishersPublisher Broadman & Holman PublishersDimensions(mm)... -
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy by David Fleming
RRP: £13.99£9.20Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries,... -
Essays 2 by Lydia Davis
RRP: £20.00£13.10Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as... -
The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780231189095
RRP: £22.00£17.36Imagination allows us to step out of the ordinary but also to transform it through our sense of wonder and play, artistic inspiration and innovation, or the eureka moment of a scientific breakthrough. In this book, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei offers a... -
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick
RRP: £8.99£6.45By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought,... -
What's Wrong with Rights? by Nigel Biggar
RRP: £19.49£17.13Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights... -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: £22.99£17.94Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' by Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g -
Critical Thinking For Psychology: A Student Guide by Mark Forshaw
RRP: £55.95£48.53Critical thinking is taught at all universities, often put forward by lecturers as the key skill that can most dramatically improve a student's understanding of a course and transform their writing. It pervades research methods teaching, critical... -
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
RRP: £9.99£6.52In this stunning novel, Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars... -
Noble Truths, Noble Path: The Heart Essence of the Buddha's Original Teachings by Bhikkhu Bodhi
RRP: £35.00£22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614297987Author Bhikkhu BodhiFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Reason to Be Happy: Why logical thinking is the key to a better life by Kaushik Basu 9781911709251
RRP: £16.99£11.27'Reason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place' Hannah FryWhy do our friends have more friends than we do? How... -
History in Financial Times by Amin Samman
RRP: £21.99£19.19Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its... -
Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory by Tim Maudlin 9780691183527
RRP: £25.00£19.59A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world's leading philosophers of physicsIn this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original... -
On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction by Jurgen Habermas 9780745632193
RRP: £18.99£16.87The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology'. These lectures offer a preliminary view of what would become The Theory of Communicative... -
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
RRP: £10.99£7.32Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of scientific fact to the... -
Deleuze: The Clamor of Being by Alain Badiou 9780816631407
RRP: £17.99£15.90This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze''s life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in their work'Book... -
Spiritual Bypassing by Robert Augustus Masters
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556439056Author Robert Augustus MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy by Patricia S. Churchland 9780262532006
£44.69Progress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence, Part II by Thomas Aquinas
RRP: £27.99£24.14The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditaion by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £10.99£9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012390Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
Selected Essays by David Hume
RRP: £10.99£7.97In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more... -
The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon
RRP: £20.00£15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299571Author Henri FocillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson 9781909470965
RRP: £17.50£14.50This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). Building on Gregory... -
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Gustav Jung
RRP: £19.99£17.69Written three years before his death, The Undiscovered Self combines acuity with concision in masterly fashion and is Jung at his very best. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the... -
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings by Moses Mendelssohn 9780521574778
RRP: £38.99£34.76Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of 'sentiments' (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses). Mendelssohn offers a nuanced defence of Leibniz's theodicy and... -
The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future by Charles Handy
RRP: £16.99£12.28*Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless growth can make a candyfloss economy, and capitalism must... -
The Revolutions of 1848: Pt. 1 by Karl Marx 9781844676033
RRP: £22.99£20.86Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would guide his future work, first with the Communist League and...