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Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur
RRP: £28.00£27.79A landmark work, "Memory, History, Forgetting" examines the reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, revealing how this symbiosis influences both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative. A... -
How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audienceCan jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians,... -
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown 9781935408543
RRP: £17.99£14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408543Author Wendy BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
What's Wrong with Rights? by Nigel Biggar 9780198861973
RRP: £38.49£33.39Are 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... -
Cyfres Amdani: Tri Chynnig i Blodwen Jones by Bethan Gwanas 9781785623288 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£3.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785623288Author Bethan GwanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
The Special Theory of Relativity by David Bohm 9780415404259
RRP: £12.99£11.94In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous-and massive-Lives, including politicians... -
From Frege to Goedel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 by Jean van Heijenoort 9780674324497
RRP: £42.95£35.64The fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic, some of them never before available in English translation, are here gathered together for the first time. Modern logic, heralded by Leibniz, may be said to have been initiated by... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171455Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)... -
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: £10.99£8.45Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an... -
The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot
RRP: £12.99£7.05Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration... -
The Nature of Physical Computation by Oron Shagrir 9780197552384
RRP: £70.00£63.74This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Computing systems are... -
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: £9.99£7.08As 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... -
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £25.00£19.18Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is... -
Confessions: Volume I by Augustine
RRP: £24.95£23.76The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica... -
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Bertrand Russell 9781032312279
RRP: £17.99£16.29"The philosophy of mathematics will naturally be expected to deal with questions at the frontier of knowledge, as to which comparative certainty is not yet attained. But separation of such questions is hardly likely to be fruitful unless the more... -
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,... -
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £17.95£14.82"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."-Globe and Mail"At a time of growing national chauvinism, Martha Nussbaum's excellent restatement of the... -
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt 9780156588904
RRP: £19.99£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156588904Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 273g -
Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts by Margaret A. Rose 9780521369794
RRP: £38.99£32.28This book offers an original and challenging study of Marx's contact with the visual arts, aesthetic theories, and art policies in nineteenth-century Europe. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory in looking at Marx's views from... -
German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism by Terry P. Pinkard
RRP: £39.99£34.63In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy came for a while to dominate European philosophy. It changed the way in which not only Europeans, but people all over the world, conceived of themselves and thought about nature, religion,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche by Ken Gemes
£35.00The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters. This Oxford Handbook addresses this multiplicity by devoting each of its 32 essays to a focused topic, picked out... -
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: £10.99£7.99Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world's... -
Ethics: The Basics, 2nd Edition John Mizzoni (Neumann University, USA) 9781119150688
RRP: £16.95£15.43Updated and revised, Ethics: The Basics, Second Edition, introduces students to fundamental ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions while providing them with the conceptual tools necessary to think critically about ethical issues... -
Why the World Does Not Exist Markus Gabriel 9780745687575
RRP: £12.99£8.83Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to... -
Theology of Arithmetic by Iamblichus 9780933999725
RRP: £13.99£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933999725Author IamblichusFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Phanes Press,U.S.Publisher Phanes Press,U.S. -
Paths Between Head and Heart: Exploring the Harmonies of Science and Spirituality Oliver C. Robinson 9781782799009
RRP: £15.99£14.03Paths Between Head and Heart provides an accessible but comprehensive account of how science and spirituality relate, not as enemies, but as partners in the quest for a truth that is greater than either one can understand alone. While many books have... -
Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait by Denys Turner
RRP: £14.99£13.03An illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas-the man and the saint"A marvellous introduction to the thought of the most daring and most important thinker of the Christian Middle Ages. . . . The best single-volume introduction to St. Thomas... -
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America by Chris Hedges 9780743255141
RRP: £15.99£11.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255141Author Chris HedgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Exploring Karma and Rebirth by Nagapriya 9781899579617
RRP: £8.99£6.65Exploring Karma & Rebirth is a vigorous and thought-provoking inquiry into two important but often misunderstood Buddhist doctrines. This challenging book: clarifies and critically appraises these traditional Buddhist doctrines, examines them in relation... -
Is God Happy?: Selected Essays by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: £9.99£7.32'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of... -
The Collected Dialogues of Plato by Plato 9780691097183
RRP: £50.00£41.02All the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic are here presented in the only complete one-volume Plato available in English. The editors set out to choose the contents of this collected edition from the work of the best British and... -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780486434148
RRP: £2.99£2.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434148Author Elizabeth S. HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living by Allan Lokos 9781585429004
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585429004Author Allan LokosFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
This Is Not Who I Am: Our Authenticity Obsession by Emily Bootle 9781838388737
RRP: £11.99£8.52In contemporary culture, there is no stronger imperative than to be authentic. But what does authenticity actually mean? Everywhere we turn, we are urged to "live our truth": an element of Western culture that is almost never questioned. Authenticity in... -
Cool Philosophy: Filled with facts for kids of all ages by Daniel Tatarsky
RRP: £9.99£7.72Inside this philosophy-stuffed book are fifty fact-tastic ways to advance your thinking skills, so you'll never be scratching your head in bemusement ever again. Featuring the key philosophic principles of every philosopher you've heard of (and some... -
Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha's Teachings on Voidness Ajahn Buddhadasa Bhikkhu 9781614291527
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614291527Author Ajahn Buddhadasa BhikkhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Without God, Is Everything Permitted?: The 20 Big Questions in Ethics Julian Baggini 9781780875972
RRP: £12.99£8.83Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights? Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: £13.99£10.56Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in... -
Meat Market - Female flesh under capitalism Laurie Penny 9781846945212
RRP: £6.99£6.44Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential...