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Mind, Body, Soul Journal: Discover a sense of purpose and live your best life by Andrea Hayes 9780717183470
RRP: £18.99£14.01This timeless journal, beautifully illustrated with pages for monthly journaling, is an indispensable companion if you want to live a more focused, positive life. A practical workbook designed to help you find more meaning and fulfilment amidst the... -
Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology by Richard Wolin
RRP: £25.00£24.34What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? "Combines close readings of Heidegger's key writings with a rich cultural, literary and... -
Truth and Reality by Otto Rank 9780393008999
RRP: £14.50£11.75Anticipating one of the central findings of post-Freudian psychiatry, he argues that "truth" is irrelevant to the work of therapy. He contrasts the negative externalization of will, which leads to denial and guilt, with the creative power of will,... -
Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works - Revised Edition by Aristotle 9780691158464
RRP: £22.00£17.76Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally motivated action as a mean between extremes. Its influence was... -
Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim by Frederick Neuhouser
RRP: £29.99£26.34Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe... -
Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal by Heather Widdows 9780691160078
RRP: £35.00£31.73How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to... -
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic by Jean-Manuel Roubineau 9780197666357
RRP: £14.99£13.09An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he... -
Big Ideas in Brief: 200 World-Changing Concepts Explained In An Instant by Ian Crofton
RRP: £10.99£7.40Big Ideas in Brief provides an accessible and easily understood tour of 200 key concepts that really matter. The ideas covered come from a wide range of subjects - Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology... -
Rose by Li-Young Lee 9780918526533
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526533Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 127g -
Mereology by A. J. Cotnoir 9780198749004
RRP: £107.50£97.59Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts? Are there things composed of the same parts? If you divide an object into parts, and divide those parts into smaller parts, will this process ever come to an end? Can something lose parts or gain new... -
Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl 9780521895606
RRP: £54.99£49.87Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theory with significant applications in... -
Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson by Jeffrey S. Cramer
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093836Author Jeffrey S. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Philosophy of Information by Luciano Floridi
RRP: £41.99£25.85Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics,... -
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: £14.99£10.95In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some... -
On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures by Francois Jullien 9780745646237
RRP: £17.99£16.04Francois Jullien, the leading philosopher and specialist in Chinese thought, has always aimed at building on inter-cultural relations between China and the West. In this new book he focuses on the following questions: Do universal values exist? Is... -
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari 9781529364507
RRP: £20.00£13.35'A serious - and seriously readable - book about the deep issues that our shallow age has foolishly tried to dodge' - Douglas Murray 'A crystal-clear analysis of the multiple failures of "me-first" contemporary liberalism' - Giles FraserFor millennia,... -
A Journey In Ladakh by Andrew Harvey
RRP: £15.99£11.61High up in the remote mountain passes on the Indian border with Tibet, China and Pakistan, Ladakh has been a centre for Buddhist meditation since three centuries before Christ and is one of the last places on earth where a Tibetan Buddhist community... -
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Philosophy and Family by Andy West
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Tense and intimate... an education.' Geoff Dyer'Written with sensitivity and humanity... a remarkable insight into prison life.' Amanda Brown'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving.' Terry Waite'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending... a... -
Hume: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris 9780198849780
RRP: £8.99£6.45David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason,... -
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 9780571346431
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York... -
I Ching by John Minford
RRP: £16.99£13.28A landmark new translation of the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom, in a stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionThe I Ching, or Book of Change, has been consulted through the ages, in both China and the West, for answers to fundamental... -
Phaedo by Plato 9780198720492
RRP: £57.00£46.07PhaedoBook InformationISBN 9780198720492Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 316g -
Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World by Iddo Landau 9780190092221
£17.10Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve... -
The Scope of Philosophy by John Young 9780852447338
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852447338Author John YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 483g -
The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £16.99£15.22Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that... -
The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader: Writings on Critical Thinking by Markar Melkonian
£27.99What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like "human nature"-a term that has played its role in rhetoric, but that... -
Bruce Lee Artist of Life: Inspiration and Insights from the World's Greatest Martial Artist by J. Little
RRP: £12.99£8.60Named one of TIME magazine's 100 Greatest Men of the Century, Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973. Part of the seven-volume Bruce Lee Library, this installment of the famed martial artistAes private notebooks... -
The Tree Of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding by Humberto Maturana Rumesin
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736424Author Humberto R. MaturanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: £20.99£18.44This new edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world's greatest ethical works. Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, Nicomachean Ethics is one of the... -
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
RRP: £7.99£5.79'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and... -
Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
RRP: £16.99£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559394789Author H.H. The Dalai LamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
On Risk by Mark Kingwell
RRP: £9.99£6.75With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it? As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and... -
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Professor Fritjof Capra 9781590308356
RRP: £21.95£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308356Author Fritjof CapraFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner 9781501129025
RRP: £10.99£7.77The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each-from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir-offers practical... -
Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell 9780226816821
RRP: £35.00£29.57The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics,... -
Phenomenology of Illness by Havi Carel 9780198822660
RRP: £27.99£25.82The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence. Like death, illness raises important philosophical issues. But unlike death, illness, and in particular the experience of being ill, has received little philosophical... -
Bone Narrow Nei Kung: Taoist Techniques for Rejuvenating the Blood and Bone by Mantak Chia
RRP: £15.99£12.92Most Westerners believe that a daily physical exercise program helps slow the aging process. Yet those whose bodies appear most physically fit on the outside often enjoy only the same life span as the average nonathletic person. It is the internal organs... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky 9780226549330
RRP: £19.00£16.20Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught... -
The Little Book of Karma: A Beginner's Guide to the Basic Principles of Karma by Isabelle Loynes
RRP: £7.99£5.60Learn how cause and effect can help you shape your destiny with this guide to the principles of karma What goes around comes around One kind act can go a long way, and even the smallest deed can have a profound impact. Learn how to tap into the...