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Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening by Daniel Odier 9780892818587
RRP: $18.05$16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892818587Author Daniel OdierFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David DeGrazia
RRP: $11.60$8.32Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and... -
Rights, Bodies and Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right by Tom Rockmore 9781138252257
RRP: $51.59$45.23The German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, has long been recognized as an important and original figure in the history of philosophy and Western thought and as a seminal influence upon the Romantic tradition. This book focuses on Fichte's... -
The Great Guide: What David Hume Teaches Us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini
RRP: $25.80$20.50Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophersDavid Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher... -
Life After Death: The Book of Answers by Deepak Chopra
RRP: $19.34$14.13Dr 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... -
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Tom Sorell
RRP: $11.60$8.32Rene Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of... -
The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts by G. S. Kirk
RRP: $42.56$38.22Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and... -
Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics by Steven Shaviro 9780262517973
$34.83A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which... -
Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving by Scott O'Neil
RRP: $19.34$12.64When we're moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming. But it comes for all of us. The sudden loss of a much beloved friend, the excruciatingly long departure of a parent with Alzheimer's. We grasp for lessons, for meaning, for learnings. Even when... -
A Discourse on the Method: of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences by Rene Descartes 9780199540075
RRP: $10.31$7.47'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting... -
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard 9780190085148
RRP: $39.33$28.86Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a... -
The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Bursting with practical wisdom and engaging stories ... a Stoicism 2.0 for twenty-first century happiness' Skye Cleary 'A bold, contemporary updating of Stoicism for the present day' John Sellars, author of Lessons in StoicismLearn how to survive life's... -
On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death by Jean Amery
RRP: $24.50$21.57" . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " -Kirkus ReviewsJean Amery (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down... -
Realm of Lesser Evil by Jean-Claude Michea 9780745646213
RRP: $20.63$18.59Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was 'the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt 9780691226149
RRP: $28.38$22.39An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of... -
On Literature, Culture, and Religion: Irving Babbitt by Irving Babbitt
RRP: $59.33$52.28Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains... -
Republic by Plato 9781585102617
RRP: $25.79$21.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102617Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 513g -
The Symposium by Plato 9780141023847
RRP: $10.31$7.47Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Against Nature by Lorraine Daston
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537339Author Lorraine DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm -
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen 9780785833512
RRP: $9.02$6.45As a Man Thinketh is James Allen's third book, first published in 1903. In it, he details how man is the creator and shaper of his destiny by the thoughts which he thinks. He rises and falls in exact accordance with the character of the thoughts which he... -
Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Galen Strawson 9780198250067
RRP: $141.90$133.09What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like? It's not clear that we even know what we're asking about when we ask these large, metaphysical questions. The idea of the self comes very naturally to us, and it seems rather important,... -
The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics by Robert C. Koons 9781119116264
RRP: $48.96$48.65The Atlas of REALITY The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key concepts, principles, and arguments of metaphysics, traditionally the very core of philosophical thought. Representing the first... -
The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran 9781586381318
RRP: $21.92$15.05Easwaran's best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.In the Upanishads, illumined sages share flashes of insight, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself.In... -
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols 9780190469412
RRP: $27.08$19.27People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual... -
Fear of a Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: $25.80$18.43'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis'There is a movement from a suffering black consciousness to a liberatory Black consciousness in which revelation of the dirty... -
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith P. Butler 9780823225040
RRP: $33.53$29.01What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester
RRP: $25.80$21.01A bold new history of postwar political philosophy and of how John Rawls transformed modern liberalismIn the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the... -
Dear Spookysaur (PB) by Chae Strathie 9781407193847
RRP: $9.02$5.99It's time to have a SPOOKTASTIC Halloween with another picture book in the Dear Dinosaur series, written by Chae Strathie and illustrated by Nicky O'Byrne. Join the mighty T. Rex and Max as they exchange letters ahead ... -
The Power Of An Open Question by Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
RRP: $23.21$15.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309278Author Elizabeth Mattis-NamgyelFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Plotinus Reader by Plotinus 9781624668944
RRP: $24.50$20.21The Plotinus Reader provides a generous selection of translations from the fifty-four treatises that together make up the Enneads of Plotinus, a central work in the history of philosophy. They were prepared by a team of specialists in ancient philosophy... -
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller by Robert Peston
RRP: $25.80$4.36'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial TimesAs with his previous bestsellers, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? and... -
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $21.92$15.84The 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... -
Evolutionary Psychology: The Basics by Will Reader
RRP: $21.92$19.63Evolutionary Psychology: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to evolutionary psychology, which examines behaviour, thoughts, and emotions in relation to evolutionary theory.Reader and Workman outline how evolutionary thinking can... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory by John S. Dryzek 9780199548439
RRP: $45.14$44.23Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative... -
Healing With Form, Energy, And Light by Tenzin Wangyal
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559391764Author Tenzin WangyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $21.92$17.61Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of... -
Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph 9780967967509
RRP: $25.79$24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967967509Author Sister Miriam JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 475g -
On Dialogue by David Bohm
RRP: $21.92$19.63Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity... -
Empathy: Why It Matters, And How To Get It by Roman Krznaric
RRP: $19.34$14.13Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. It's an essential, transforming quality we must develop for the 21st Century. Through encounters with actors,... -
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David M. Halperin 9780195111279
RRP: $29.01$19.66`My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation,' Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in...