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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... -
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller 9780141396965
RRP: £10.99£7.87'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who described his work On the Aesthetic Education of Man as 'the... -
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... -
Just Deserts – Debating Free Will by Dennett
RRP: £12.99£8.83The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality,... -
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... -
Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature by Lama Yeshe 9781614293958
RRP: £12.99£9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293958Author Lama YesheFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran 9781586381318
RRP: £16.99£11.67Easwaran'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 Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780300091410
RRP: £15.99£15.76Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political... -
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management by Seneca 9780691181950
RRP: £14.99£12.34Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion:... -
Critical Thinking For Psychology: A Student Guide Mark Forshaw (Staffordshire University, UK) 9781405191173
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£6.72In 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... -
Care of the Soul, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Ed: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore 9780062415677
£11.28#1 New York Times Bestseller With a new introduction by the author and additional material, this 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by Thomas Moore provides a powerful spiritual message for our troubled times. In this special... -
Hoelderlin's Hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine" by Martin Heidegger 9780253014214
RRP: £39.00£34.12Martin Heidegger's 1934-1935 lectures on Friedrich Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine" are considered the most significant among Heidegger's lectures on Hoelderlin. Coming at a crucial time in his career, the text... -
Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia: A bake for every day of the year by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: £10.99£7.61Back in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse's lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism. Analysing the work of Freud and Marx, and... -
God without Being: Hors-texte by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: £30.00£29.25Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In "God Without Being", Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics:... -
You're So Dead by Ash Parsons 9780702311291
RRP: £7.99£5.41The trust no-one tension of One of Us is Lying meets legendary scam Fyre Festival. A high-energy, wildly entertaining, read-in-one-sitting YA thriller to get obsessed with. Plum Winter has always come in second to her... -
The Art of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo 9781627951289
RRP: £24.95£21.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627951289Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Shelter Harbor PressPublisher Shelter Harbor Press -
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls 9780674017726
RRP: £33.95£28.99John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition-justice as fairness-and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth... -
Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God by Abraham Joshua Heschel
RRP: £9.99£6.96Like the Hebrew prophets before him, the great American rabbi and civil rights leader reveals God's concern for this world and each of us. Abraham Joshua Heschel, descended from a long line of Orthodox rabbis, fled Europe to escape the Nazis. He made... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £17.50£11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756771Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Way I Act by Steve Metzger 9781884734991
RRP: £14.95£11.91The Way I Act explores thirteen ways of behaving. The friendly verses and bold illustrations convey many positive ideas of how to act in a variety of situations. In the companion book, The Way I Feel, children learned that feelings come and go and simply... -
Hinduism For Dummies by Amrutur V. Srinivasan
RRP: £18.99£13.15Your hands-on guide to one of the world's major religions The dominant religion of India, "Hinduism" refers to a wide variety of religious traditions and philosophies that have developed over thousands of years. Today, the United States is home to... -
Han Feizi: Basic Writings by Han Fei Tzu 9780231129695
RRP: £22.00£17.36Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi (280?-233 B.C.), a prince of Han, was a representative of the... -
Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Robin Attfield 9780198797166
RRP: £8.99£6.65Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore... -
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... -
Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition: A Psychology of the Creative Eye by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520243835
RRP: £28.00£22.20Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In... -
Cartographies of the Absolute Alberto Toscano 9781780992754
RRP: £15.99£14.03Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the... -
The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon
RRP: £20.00£15.37Apologies 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 -
A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible: Seeing and Knowing God's Word by Tim Challies
RRP: £20.00£14.69The deepest truths of the Bible accessible in a way that can be seen, understood, and experienced like never before, combining graphics and text to teach the nature and contents of the Bible in a fresh and exciting way.For a beautiful, approachable,... -
The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness by Susan Schneider
RRP: £35.95£32.67Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today. *... -
The Undiscovered Self Carl Gustav Jung 9780415854740
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... -
Historical Dictionary of Logic by Harry J. Gensler 9780810855311
RRP: £97.00£85.52This one-volume encyclopedia of logic introduces the central concepts of the field in a series of brief, non-technical, cross-referenced dictionary entries. The 352 alphabetically arranged entries give a clear, basic introduction to a very broad range of... -
The Accursed Share: Volume 1: Consumption: Volume 1 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.00£15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening by Daniel Odier 9780892818587
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies 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... -
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Edwin Bryant
RRP: £25.00£18.30Written almost two millennia ago, Patanjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on... -
Dialogue/2 Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757662Author GalileoFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place by Jade Angeles Fitton
RRP: £18.99£13.82'I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experienced... There is never anything out here but my shadow, that no one treads on any more'When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks... -
The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts by G. S. Kirk
RRP: £32.99£29.63Beginning 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... -
Beyond the Cave: A philosopher's quest for Truth Peter Christian Vardy 9781789041743
RRP: £16.99£14.83Truth is increasingly marginalized. Powerful news interests, social media and political orators all seem to point to the idea that the days of absolute Truth are past. Religions have always claimed to stand for a transcendent dimension to reality and to...