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Quantum Entanglement by Jed Brody
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538442Author Jed BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 13mm -
Martin Buber's Dialogue: Discovering Who We Really Are by Kenneth Paul Kramer 9781532665752
RRP: $25.80$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532665752Author Kenneth Paul KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by David Benatar
RRP: $33.53$29.37Are human lives ultimately meaningless? Is our inevitable death bad? Would immortality be better? Should we hasten our deaths by taking our own lives in acts of suicide? Many people ask these big questions and many are plagued by them. Surprisingly few... -
Cinema II: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $29.66$27.71Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus have become one of the most widely-influential bodies... -
Wandering Joy: Meister Eckhart's Mystical Philosophy by Reiner Schurmann 9780970109712
RRP: $19.34$14.13This remarkable work shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century western mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul, who shatters the dualism between God and the world, and the self and God. It is not only an exposition of Eckhart's... -
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn 9780674241398
RRP: $23.16$18.83"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."-Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal"Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness."-George SorosThe age of human... -
The Predictive Mind by Jakob Hohwy 9780199686735
$48.68A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive... -
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert N. Proctor 9780804759014
RRP: $30.95$25.36What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology-the study of ignorance-provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to... -
The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe by Steve Hagen
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614296782Author Steve HagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Killing in War by Jeff McMahan 9780199603572
RRP: $27.08$21.49Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that... -
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: $12.89$8.86As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael... -
Myth and Meaning: Conversations on Mythology and Life by Joseph Campbell 9781608688517
RRP: $34.83$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688517Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
Daoist Reflections from Scholar Sage by Damo Mitchell
RRP: $29.66$28.33This collection of fascinating short reads on Daoist thought, including Chinese medicine brings together some of the most popular articles from the Scholar Sage online magazine, alongside new material from Damo Mitchell. It includes:* How the... -
Sound arts now by Cathy Lane Angus Carlyle
RRP: $18.06$17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010266Author Cathy Lane Angus CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks -
The Universal Machine by Fred Moten
RRP: $29.66$25.81"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of... -
Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps by Mark Vernon
RRP: $19.34$16.81We 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: $87.72$54.48Ernest 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... -
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner 9780393337136
RRP: $16.76$14.49In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short," why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude,... -
Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City by Zachary Levenson 9780197629253
RRP: $32.88$29.61A 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: $12.84$10.50Apologies 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 -
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being by Jean-François Beauchemin
RRP: $21.92$15.05"Beauchemin discovers again and again that happiness is a function of the connection between beings-the nonhuman animals as well as the human."-Maria Popova, A Favorite Book of 2023For readers of Ross Gay's The Book of Delights comes a joyful, tender... -
On Form: The Times Book of the Year by Mike Brearley
RRP: $16.76$11.09THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARDAILY TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017What is being on form? How does it relate to feeling 'in the zone'? Are these states in the lap of the gods, a matter of which... -
Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values by Bianca Cepollaro 9781793610522
RRP: $109.65$96.12What 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... -
Why Free Will Is Real by Christian List
RRP: $30.90$24.69A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe.Philosophers have argued about the nature and the very existence of free will for centuries... -
Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses by Sandra Woien
RRP: $21.92$15.05This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: $36.11$31.66These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... -
Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena : Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $45.14$36.64With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae by Jason T. Eberl
RRP: $33.53$29.19The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae introduces readers to a work which represents the pinnacle of medieval Western scholarship and which has inspired numerous commentaries, imitators, and opposing views. Outlining the main arguments... -
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear
RRP: $32.19$25.66A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction"Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes that have... -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 9780226458113
RRP: $54.18$52.13A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas... -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: $21.92$15.38Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political... -
The Making of White American Identity by Ron Eyerman 9780197658949
RRP: $31.59$26.81An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and... -
Political Liberalism by John Rawls 9780231130899
RRP: $28.38$22.91This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester 9780691163086
RRP: $45.15$36.30A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls's A Theory of Justice In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: $14.18$10.02Exploring 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... -
Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes 9780872204225
RRP: $12.89$10.64By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third... -
The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee 9780192893222
RRP: $18.05$12.58Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosophers provide an... -
We Have Only This Life To Live by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $29.67$20.09Apologies 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)... -
The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
$17.69This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this... -
Aikido Weapons Techniques: The Wooden Sword, Stick and Knife of Aikido by Phong Thong Dang
RRP: $14.18$9.55Master 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...