Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Heidegger Reader by Gunter Figal
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Heidegger Reader brings key texts from the entire course of Heidegger's philosophical career into one volume. Many of the selections, translated here for the first time, offer new insight into Heidegger's thought for both the beginning student and... -
The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau by Christopher W. Morris 9780847689071
RRP: £41.00£36.36This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Twelve thoughtfully... -
Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £20.99£18.66In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the... -
Animals, Ethics and Us: A Veterinary's View of Human-Animal Interactions by Madeleine Campbell 9781789180497
RRP: £24.95£22.10Everyone has a view about animal ethics. Each of us, for example, has an opinion about whether we should eat meat; whether animals should be used for scientific research, or whether the use of animals in sport is acceptable. But very few of us stop to... -
An Experiment with Time by J W Dunne 9780955989889
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955989889Author J W DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint ResonancebookworksPublisher ResonancebookworksWeight(grams) 286g -
The Sound of One Hand Dror Burstein 9781681370224
RRP: £17.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370224Author Dror BursteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Pascalian Meditations by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745620558
RRP: £18.99£17.13In this major new work, Bourdieu pushes the critique of scholastic reason to a point which most questionings leave untouched.About the AuthorPierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the College de France.Book InformationISBN 9780745620558Author... -
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami
RRP: £25.00£19.18In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of... -
The Scorpion's Head by Hilde Vandermeeren 9781782277484
RRP: £9.99£6.90Shortly after a fractious weekend away with her family, Gaelle wakes up injured in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Her seven-year-old son is in a coma in another hospital - and the police suspect her of attempting to murder him. With no memory of what... -
Treated Like Animals: Improving the Lives of the Creatures We Own, Eat and Use by Alick Simmons
RRP: £19.99£16.68You don't have to be an animal rights activist to take an interest in how we treat other creatures. All of us, with few exceptions, use animals in some way: for food, research, recreation and companionship. In Britain we eat around a billion chickens... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219458
RRP: £49.99£44.97In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: £22.00£18.03On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who... -
Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind by Marjorie Hines Woollacott 9781538110195
RRP: £25.00£22.14Book Award of the Parapsychological Association, 2017 Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2017 (Spiritual) First Place, Nautilus Book Awards 2017 (Science, Cosmology and Expanding Consciousness) First Place, International Excellence Mind, Body... -
Ennead: Bk. 5 by Plotinus
RRP: £24.95£23.76Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded... -
The Philosophy of Hope: Beatitude in Spinoza Alexander Douglas (University of St Andrews, UK) 9781138594197
RRP: £36.99£32.78Can philosophy be a source of hope? Today it is common to believe that the answer is no - that providing hope, if it is possible at all, belongs either to the predictive sciences or to religion.In this exciting and stimulating book, however, Alexander... -
Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World Is More Than Human by Erik Jampa Andersson
RRP: £12.99£7.94'Unseen Beings is a magnificent, passionate, brilliantly written manifesto for our urgent reimagining of our relationship with every aspect of the creation... indispensable reading for anyone who longs for a just and balanced human future. Buy it and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy by Jed W. Atkins
RRP: £24.99£21.18Cicero is one of the most important and influential thinkers within the history of Western philosophy. For the last thirty years, his reputation as a philosopher has once again been on the rise after close to a century of very low esteem. This Companion... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
RRP: £18.99£15.35A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity... -
On Virtue Ethics by Rosalind Hursthouse 9780199247998
RRP: £39.99£38.14Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late twentieth-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse, who has made notable contributions to this development, now presents a full exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian... -
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by John Gribbin 9780812967883
RRP: £20.00£14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967883Author John GribbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley 9780415610247
RRP: £16.99£15.22With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract;... -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
Generation Left Keir Milburn 9781509532247
RRP: £9.99£9.19Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people across the globe are embracing left-wing ideas and supporting figures such as Corbyn and Sanders. Where has this 'Generation Left' come from? How can it change... -
The Art of Disappearing: The Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy Ajahn Brahm 9780861716685
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861716685Author Ajahn BrahmFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System by Alicia Juarrero 9780262600477
£44.29What is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral and legal consequences rest on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior. However, "action... -
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: A Summary Study of Srila Vyasadeva's Srimad Bhagavatam, 10th Canto by S. Prabhupada Bhaktivedanta 9781602930070
£16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602930070Author A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Krishna Books IncorporatedPublisher Krishna Books... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.76Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Psych2Go Presents: The Psychology of People by Psych2go
RRP: £15.99£11.04Easy-to-Understand Human Psychology with Psych2Go!Finally understand why you do things differently from the rest! Psych2go created this guide to connect the history of human psychology with practical mental health therapy tools to help you thrive in your... -
Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese: Volume 8 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534369Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm -
Stoic Lessons: Musonius Rufus' Complete Works by Chuck Chakrapani
RRP: £14.95£12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920219447Author Chuck ChakrapaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Stoic Gym PublicationsPublisher Stoic Gym PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World Laurence Scott 9780099591894
RRP: £8.99£6.65SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE JERWOOD PRIZEONE OF WIRED's NON-FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADEWe spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human... -
Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency by Lea Ypi 9780198798668
£42.75Why should states matter and how do relations between fellow-citizens affect what is owed to distant strangers? How, if at all, can demanding egalitarian principles inform political action in the real world? This book proposes a novel solution through... -
The Science and Philosophy of Martial Arts: Exploring the Connections Between the Cognitive, Physical, and Spiritual Aspects of Martial Arts by Alex W. Tong
RRP: £23.00£16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623176655Author Alex W. TongFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time by Krishna Dharma
RRP: £30.00£20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839200Author Krishna DharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 984Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group -
The Compass of Zen Stephen Mitchell 9781570623295
RRP: £32.00£20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570623295Author Stephen MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics: An Analysis and Annotated Translation by Shams C. Inati
RRP: £55.00£42.91Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the... -
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin
£33.78Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin... -
Awakening To The Tao by Liu I-ming 9781590303443
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590303443Author Liu I-mingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Why I am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell 9780671203238
RRP: £19.99£15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671203238Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318g -
Utilitarianism: For and Against by J. J. C. Smart 9780521098229
RRP: £19.99£14.93Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate a...