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The Posture of Meditation: A Practical Manual for Meditators of All Traditions by Will Johnson
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808001Author Will JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R.Buckminster Fuller 9783037781265
RRP: £18.00£12.70Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his... -
The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers by Mark T. Conard 9780813125268
£32.95Many critics agree that Joel and Ethan Coen are one of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmaking teams of the last three decades. Combining thoughtful eccentricity, wry humor, irony, and often brutal violence, the Coen brothers have crafted a style... -
Dowsing for Beginners: The Art of Discovering Water, Treasure, Gold, Oil, Artifacts by Richard Webster 9781567188028
RRP: £14.99£9.80Learn how to use the tools of dowsing: angle rods, divining rods, pendulums, wands, and even your own hands and body. Then go on to discover the techniques successful dowsers use to find what they're seeking. The detailed explanation of map dowsing,... -
Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan by Felix Guattari
RRP: £19.99£17.54The French philosopher Felix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the "machinic eros" of Japanese culture put him into contact with media... -
Moral Progress by Philip Kitcher
RRP: £24.49£20.78This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these lectures, Kitcher develops further the pragmatist approach to moral philosophy, begun in his book The Ethical Project. He uses... -
The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick 9780915145287
RRP: £18.99£16.07This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.From the forward by John Rawls:In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick... -
Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide by Brent Adkins
RRP: £21.99£17.97Offera a guide to Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork, A Thousand Plateaus. The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? Brent Adkins... -
Returning To Silence by Dainin Katagiri 9780877734314
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877734314Author Dainin KatagiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691169118
RRP: £16.99£13.65Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid... -
David Bowie Outlaw by Alex Sharpe
RRP: £28.99£25.09This book explores the relevance of David Bowie's life and music for contemporary legal and cultural theory. Focusing on the artist and artworks of David Bowie, this book brings to life, in essay form, particular theoretical ideas, creative methodologies... -
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day by Roman Krznaric 9781783524938
RRP: £8.99£6.22Existentialism is backCarpe diem - 'seize the day' - is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijacked by ad men and self-help gurus, reduced to the instant hit of one-click online shopping, or slogans... -
Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
RRP: £23.99£21.24Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental... -
The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening by Judith Blackstone 9781649630445
RRP: £15.99£10.93The Fullness of the Ground is a guide to embodied nondual realisation and its profound effect on our senses, our ability to love, our experience of our own authentic existence, and our connection with other living beings. It distills Dr. Judith... -
Introduction to Buddhism by Dalai Lama
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559394758Author Dalai LamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin
RRP: £25.00£18.96In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or... -
Neoplatonic Philosophy: Introductory Readings by John Dillon 9780872207073
RRP: £20.99£17.21The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general... -
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge by Etienne Wenger 9781578513307
RRP: £28.00£24.43Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around... -
Mirror of Obedience: The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9781350250680
RRP: £14.99£12.65Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of Obedience collects together Weil's poetry and... -
Climbing the Steps to Qingcheng Mountain: A Practical Guide to the Path of Daoist Meditation and Qigong by Wang Yun
RRP: £24.99£23.78Mount Qingcheng, one of China's mystical mountains, has been the birth place of discovery, realization and preservation of the recipes that stimulate the deep potential of the human body for generations. This is the book of a Daoist master and spiritual... -
Your Conscious Mind by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£3.51What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and... -
Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century by Tracy B. Strong
RRP: £25.00£24.34From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports... -
A Guide to the Buddhist Path by Sangharakshita 9781907314056
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this highly readable handbook, Sangharakshita guides the reader through the at times complex Buddhist tradition. Part one tackles the essentials of the religion in sections devoted to the Buddha, his teachings, and the spiritual community while part... -
Continental Philosophy since 1750: The Rise and Fall of the Self by Professor Robert C. Solomon 9780192892027
RRP: £42.99£36.19The explosion of creative and speculative philosophy that emerged in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century is a thrilling intellectual adventure story, as well as an essential chapter in the history of philosophy. The main theme of this... -
Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire by Lama Yeshe 9781614291558
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614291558Author Lama YesheFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Elucidation of Necromancy Lucidarium Artis Nigromantice Attributed to Peter of Abano: Including a New Translation of His Heptameron or Elements of Magic with Text, Translation, and Commentary by Joseph H. Peterson by Joseph H Peterson
RRP: £52.50£32.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541997Author Joseph PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Ibis PressPublisher Ibis PressWeight(grams) 1g -
America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life by Claire Rydell Arcenas
RRP: £28.00£23.27America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history. The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of... -
Early Works on Theological Method 3: Volume 24 by Bernard Lonergan 9781442614345
RRP: £26.99£23.32Continuing where Volume 23 left off, Volume 24 of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan traces the background to Lonergan's notion of functional specialization as it emerges in his Latin courses and seminars on method. This volume contains editorial... -
Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary by Andrea Ford 9781350322981
RRP: £21.99£18.10From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously... -
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory by Benjamin Noys
RRP: £28.99£23.38Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism -- Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou -- Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on affirmation, and... -
Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick
RRP: £14.99£12.15"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious... -
Logic: An Introductory Course by W. H. Newton-Smith
RRP: £36.99£32.53A complete introduction to logic for first-year university students with no background in logic, philosophy or mathematics. In easily understood steps it shows the mechanics of the formal analysis of arguments.Reviews'Clear and precise, written in an... -
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton 9780520290884
RRP: £30.00£24.08In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical... -
From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives by Robert Fulghum 9780804111140
RRP: £7.99£6.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804111140Author Robert FulghumFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology by John Greco 9780631202912
RRP: £33.95£30.38Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume includes seventeen newly-commissioned full-length survey articles on the central topics of epistemology.About the AuthorJohn Greco is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham... -
Alone Time: Four seasons, four cities and the pleasures of solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Full of heart.' Michael Harris, author of SolitudeBeing alone isn't something to endure - it's something to relish.________The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone. Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using, never... -
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... -
Philosophy Bites by David Edmonds
RRP: £9.49£6.78Take 25 of the liveliest philosophers of our time. Talk to each about one of the most intriguing topics you can think of--from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics. The result is a Philosophy Bite--a lively, informal conversation that brings the subject... -
Theory and Methods in Political Science by Vivien Lowndes 9781137603517
RRP: £36.99£33.28A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Written by an international team of experts, this fully revised fourth edition offers cutting-edge coverage from fundamental to contemporary... -
The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot
RRP: £12.99£6.85Exploring 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...