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Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.26'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and... -
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the great American prose stylists of our time.' New York Times'Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter.' New York Review of BooksThe New York Trilogy is perhaps the most... -
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash,... -
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to... -
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections... -
The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters by Jeffrey J. Kripal
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Mindblowing' Michael PollanWhy do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that only science, mathematics and... -
Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (Aziloth Books) by P. D. Ouspensky 9781909735989
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909735989Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Against Method by Paul K. Feyerabend
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of... -
Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says in his introduction, "the ground is complicated, strewn with abandoned... -
The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything by Michael Blastland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.We humans are... -
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.96TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a... -
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to... -
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? ... -
Kant's 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgement': A Reader's Guide by Dr Fiona Hughes 9780826497680
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Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything by Alan Moore 9781907974281
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907974281Author Alan MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780140447477
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.64Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophyIn his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that... -
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality Federico Campagna (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350044029
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.59We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era... -
Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt,... -
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster 9780571232567
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and... -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the... -
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest... -
Confessions Of A Philosopher Bryan Magee 9780753804711
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56In this inspirational book Bryan Magee tells the story of his discovery of philosophy, and in doing so introduces the subject to his reader. Experiences of everyday life provide discussion of... -
Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language: The Legacy of the Philosophical Investigations by Thomas McNally 9781316647936
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston 9780691254081
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended... -
Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. Austin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.11If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two... -
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Daniel Klein
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.99The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening... -
The New York Trilogy: Faber Modern Classics by Paul Auster 9780571322800
Booksplease Price: £15.37The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of... -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists,... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes... -
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to... -
Classical Indian Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 5 by Peter Adamson
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.46Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant... -
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £28.39Epistemic Injustice explores the idea that there is a distinctively epistemic kind of injustice - injustice which consists in a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower... -
Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting by Bonnie Burstow 9781137503848
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The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.55Are we free, whether we know it or not? Or is our sense of freedom merely an illusion? Rudolf Steiner tackles this age-old problem in a new way. He shows that by taking account of our own activity of... -
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini 9781847082732
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different... -
Hinge Epistemology by Annalisa Coliva 9789004332379
RRP: £65.60Booksplease Price: £60.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.