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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps Mark Vernon 9781803410326
RRP: £14.99£13.03We live in an age of emergency, exacerbated by a collapse of meaning. Writer and psychotherapist Mark Vernon examines the type of intelligence that, whilst often dismissed and overlooked, is crucial to understand and cultivate if we are to survive and... -
Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics by Ernest LePore 9780199561681
RRP: £68.00£42.23Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to... -
Logic by Paul Tomassi 9780415166966
RRP: £35.99£32.09Bringing elementary logic out of the academic darkness into the light of day, Paul Tomassi makes logic fully accessible for anyone attempting to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. Including student-friendly exercises,... -
Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City by Zachary Levenson 9780197629253
RRP: £25.49£22.95A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any... -
The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus' Stoic Classic: Enchiridion by Chuck Chakrapani 9780920219140
RRP: £9.95£8.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920219140Author Chuck ChakrapaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Stoic GymPublisher Stoic GymWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm -
A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
RRP: £22.00£15.75A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and... -
Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI by Urs Gasser 9780691150680
RRP: £22.00£17.63How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today’s... -
Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values by Bianca Cepollaro 9781793610522
RRP: £85.00£74.51What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language not only reflect speakers' moral perspectives, but... -
Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing Body and Spirit Sister Dang Nghiem 9781937006945
RRP: £16.99£10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937006945Author Sister Dang NghiemFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
The Four Noble Truths: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought: v. 1 by Geshe Tashi Tsering
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861712700Author Geshe Tashi TseringFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Aikido Weapons Techniques: The Wooden Sword, Stick and Knife of Aikido Phong Thong Dang 9784805314296
RRP: £10.99£7.61Master the wooden weapons used in Aikido with this comprehensive martial arts training manual.Although aikido is often thought of as a nonviolent, noncompetitive martial art, the use of weapons was introduced by the art's founder O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba... -
Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction by Duncan Pritchard
RRP: £8.99£6.65Throughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded by adverts, scientific studies praising the latest superfoods, and political rhetoric, a healthy amount of... -
Lenin Walked on the Moon: The Mad History of Russian Cosmism by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: £14.99£10.14How a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality Cheating death and raising the dead. Creating life. Freeing the spirit. Colonising space. These projects, of which some have been achieved and some will soon, have a shared Russian history,... -
The Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: £10.99£7.99Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle 9780691224190
RRP: £18.99£15.35A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In... -
We Have Only This Life To Live Jean-Paul Sartre 9781590174937
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays by P. F. Strawson 9780415448505
RRP: £25.99£22.63By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work... -
Judaism and Modernity by Gillian Rose
RRP: £20.99£20.76Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging... -
Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress by Hasok Chang 9780195337389
RRP: £40.99£27.89What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first... -
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free by Martin Hagglund
RRP: £12.99£9.34If this life is all there is, what should we do with it? Join Swedish philosopher Martin Hagglund on an original inquiry into the deepest questions of existence, beginning with a radical declaration: 'What I do and what I love can matter to me only... -
You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: £17.99£16.69In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on... -
Sailing Just for Fun: High Adventure on a Small Budget by A. C. Stock
RRP: £11.99£8.66High adventure on a small budget - this is Charles Stock's philosophy as he cruises his midget 16 -foot gaff-rigged sailing cruiser Shoal Waters on the Thames Estuary, having logged 68,000 miles since 1963. No engine, no electronics. The art of pottering... -
Bushido: The Way of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto 9780757000263
RRP: £9.99£7.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757000263Author Tsunetomo YamamotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One PublishersDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm... -
Buddhism: Tools for Living Your Life by Vajragupta
RRP: £12.99£9.34This work features tools which are teachings, exercises and reflections which can be applied to everyday life. The tools draw on the Buddhist tradition to guide us along a progressive path of ethics, meditation and wisdom in the context of our day-to-day... -
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden
RRP: £25.00£20.30A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways... -
Creativity: A Very Short Introduction by Vlad Glaveanu
RRP: £8.99£6.65Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From... -
The World We Have by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £11.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375886Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 116mm... -
Heidegger and Language by Jeffrey Powell
RRP: £21.99£19.19The essays collected in this volume take a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophy. They consider such topics as Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, expression in... -
The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice by Paolo Mancosu 9780199296453
RRP: £112.50£105.78Contemporary philosophy of mathematics offers us an embarrassment of riches. Among the major areas of work one could list developments of the classical foundational programs, analytic approaches to epistemology and ontology of mathematics, and... -
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence by G. A. Cohen 9780691070681
£41.52First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In... -
Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee 9780691178127
RRP: £10.99£9.32We human beings had no say in existing--we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are... -
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 9780674027466
RRP: £21.95£17.90Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this... -
Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism by Franz Jakubowski 9780745303895
RRP: £26.99£21.16Ideology and Superstructure was written at a time - in the inter-war years - when Marxism existed almost entirely in its Stalinst form. Franz Jakubowski set out to reintroduce the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic into Marx's method and to elaborate... -
Affairs by The School of Life
RRP: £8.00£6.02Our societies are remarkably confident on the matter: affairs are terrible things and only fools, monsters and knaves would ever be involved in them. Those who are their victims deserve unending sympathy and access to a good lawyer. This stance may be... -
Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Professor Neil DeGrasse Tyson
RRP: £25.00£19.89In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world's most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science. For science geeks,... -
Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age by Will Durant 9780743235945
RRP: £18.99£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743235945Author Will DurantFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm... -
The Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga Richard Freeman 9781611802795
RRP: £19.99£13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611802795Author Richard FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
When Love Comes to Light: Bringing Wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita to Modern Life by Richard Freeman
RRP: £17.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808179Author Richard FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Posthuman Knowledge Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht) 9781509535262
RRP: £14.99£13.58The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid...