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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £8.99£6.08In this frank and damning expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve God... -
Selected Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780451531865
RRP: £7.99£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531865Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 267g -
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £8.99£5.91'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: £10.99£7.77One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on... -
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers 9780141992501
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as... -
Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems by Nicolas Michaud 9780812699197
£22.01In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants atop a swimming turtle, the sun goes around the world every day, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of... -
Why I Am so Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.One of 46 new books... -
The Greek Anthology: v. 2 by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£22.92A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called... -
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99£5.79Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional... -
Hundred: What You Learn in a Lifetime by Heike Faller
RRP: £20.00£14.69Do you want to know what life has in store? It's all here in this book. All the little things we learn in the course of our lives. A page a year, from nought to a hundred.5: You learn that boys and girls fall in love. Incredible!13: When will your... -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: £10.99£7.77It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic... -
Question Everything: A Stone Reader by Peter Catapano
RRP: £31.99£28.79When The Stone Reader (ISBN 978 1 63149 071 2)-a landmark collection of 133 essays from The New York Times' award-winning philosophy series-first published, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of... -
Philosophy for Gardeners: Ideas and paradoxes to ponder in the garden by Kate Collyns
RRP: £14.00£8.93Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow, deciding what will make a 'good' garden, wondering at the... -
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 9780571346431
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £16.99£12.28Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins... -
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
RRP: £7.99£5.79'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good'The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes,... -
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits by Raven Smith
RRP: £8.99£6.02'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.' ST STYLE MAGAZINE 'Irresistibly readable' DOLLY ALDERTON 'You'll laugh. You'll cry.' LENA DUNHAM ... -
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
RRP: £19.99£14.28This is an account of the essential aspects of the new physics for those with little or no knowledge of mathematics or science. It describes current theories of quantum mechanics, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity and other... -
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live by Daniel Klein 9781780749327
RRP: £10.99£7.38"Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it." The words of Reinhold Niebuhr provide the title and set the tone for what is a wryly humorous look at some of the great philosophical pronouncements on the most important question we can face. ... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Witty and learned ... Hershovitz intertwines parenting and philosophy, recounting his spirited arguments with his kids about infinity, morality, and the existence of God' Jordan Ellenberg, author of ShapeA funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: £9.99£7.11These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in... -
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
RRP: £19.99£13.33The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by... -
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £18.99£17.65Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of... -
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 9781784875572
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another... -
Confessions of a Sinner by Saint Augustine
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay 9781399716017
RRP: £9.99£6.48'Punchy and compassionate' OBSERVERA collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships.In "We Kin" he... -
Why I am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Essays In Love by Alain de Botton 9781035038589
RRP: £10.99£7.51'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in BlackA unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there... -
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze 9780872862180
RRP: £9.99£6.75Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form,... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: £14.99£10.95One 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 apply scientific methods of observation to a study of... -
Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: £7.99£5.79Widely 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, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin 9780674013551
RRP: £28.95£22.84Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of... -
Parmenides by Plato 9780872203280
RRP: £16.99£13.81"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticulously through the arguments, avoids perverseness, and still manages to make sense of the dialogue as a... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: £13.99£11.55Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was... -
Milk: Through a Glass Darkly by Peter Blegvad 9781910010365
RRP: £10.00£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010365Author Peter BlegvadFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz 9780241448793
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Witty and learned ... Hershovitz intertwines parenting and philosophy, recounting his spirited arguments with his kids about infinity, morality, and the existence of God' Jordan Ellenberg, author of ShapeA funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and... -
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a... -
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
RRP: £5.99£4.46In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literature of his day. In this uncompromising literary... -
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: £7.99£5.79Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea... -
The Virtue Of Selfishness (Centennial Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: £9.99£6.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451163936Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 176mm * 106mm *...