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Crystal Horizon: Everest: The first Solo Ascent by Reinhold Messner
RRP: $21.92$20.27Messner describes with clarity and passion his journey through Tibet. He identifies with legendary mountaineers who have been before him - Mallory, Irvine and Wilson come to life as he makes his ascent to the roof of the world.About the AuthorAn Italian... -
Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon by Rozena Maart
RRP: $28.37$21.45Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of... -
The Dao of Civilization: a Letter to China by Freya Mathews 9781839984853
RRP: $27.08$25.98The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. Starting with the deep philosophical flaw at the core of modernity, namely that the cosmos is devoid of ends of its own, it posits,... -
Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump by Joseph S. Nye 9780190935962
RRP: $30.30$20.47Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of... -
Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory Alice Crary (The New School, New York, NY) 9781509549689
RRP: $20.63$19.10Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans too. In the wake of global pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction,... -
The Nicomachean Ethics: Vol 19 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19$30.17Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347);... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: $33.53$29.19Written by one of the most important founding figures of Western philosophy, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics represents a critical point in the study of ethics which has influenced the direction of modern philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's... -
Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care by Joan C. Tronto
RRP: $56.75$49.59In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their... -
Sailing Just for Fun: High Adventure on a Small Budget by A. C. Stock
RRP: $15.47$11.51High adventure on a small budget - this is Charles Stock's philosophy as he cruises his midget 16 -foot gaff-rigged sailing cruiser Shoal Waters on the Thames Estuary, having logged 68,000 miles since 1963. No engine, no electronics. The art of pottering... -
The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution by Edward Dutton
RRP: $19.29$18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360753Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 13mm -
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $21.92$15.84**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**How do we talk to our children about racism?How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid... -
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept by Brent Nongbri
RRP: $25.79$21.89For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and... -
Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg by Paul Vallely
RRP: $38.70$28.32'This is the definitive book on philanthropy - its history, contradictions and future' - John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics 'Good books lay out the lie of the land. Important books change it. This book is... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: $18.05$15.26Includes 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... -
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780199297221 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$5.43'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of... -
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780199297221
RRP: $12.89$9.17'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics by Tom Angier 9781108435611
RRP: $34.82$27.01Natural law ethics centres on the idea that ethical norms derive from human nature. The field has seen a remarkable revival since the millennium, with new work in Aristotelian metaphysics complementing innovative applied work in bioethics, economics and... -
Interspecies Ethics by Cynthia Willett 9780231167772
RRP: $36.12$28.12Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging... -
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A fun, fascinating, and original book that will challenge you to become a better version of yourself'Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveWhat does it take to be truly happy? Should we pursue fame and fortune or the respect of our friends and family? How can... -
The Ending of Time: Where Philosophy and Physics Meet by Jiddu Krishnamurti
RRP: $23.21$15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062360977Author Jiddu KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Spinoza's Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Beth Lord
RRP: $21.92$20.34Everything you need to know about Spinoza's Ethics in one volume. The Ethics presents a complete metaphysical, epistemological and ethical world-view that is immensely inspiring. However, it is also an extremely difficult text to read. This book takes... -
Utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
RRP: $41.27$39.13The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive... -
Martin Buber's Dialogue: Discovering Who We Really Are by Kenneth Paul Kramer 9781532665752
RRP: $25.80$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532665752Author Kenneth Paul KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Killing in War by Jeff McMahan 9780199603572
RRP: $27.08$21.49Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that... -
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy by Lee McIntyre 9780262546300
RRP: $18.05$10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546300Author Lee McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: $12.89$9.17'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Supreme Understanding 9780981617008
RRP: $32.19$22.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981617008Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Supreme Design PublishingPublisher Supreme Design PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality by James Davison Hunter
RRP: $21.92$21.49Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to... -
In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling by Emmanuel Yartekwei Lartey
RRP: $29.66$28.33The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and re-examined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: $14.18$10.02Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of... -
Joint Commitment: How We Make the Social World by Margaret Gilbert 9780190251956
RRP: $70.95$44.36In this wide-ranging collection of essays, distinguished philosopher Margaret Gilbert investigates the structure of our social world. People often speak of what we do, think, and feel, and of our values, conventions, and laws. Asking what we mean by such... -
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $23.16$18.83"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... -
Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming by Mark Dooley 9781472526151
RRP: $51.60$50.76Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming is Mark Dooley's attempt to offer an alternative to 'Cyberia'. It is a book about home, memory and identity. At a time when people are rapidly disengaging from those forms of life which once bound them together,... -
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael Gill
RRP: $45.15$35.78An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $25.80$20.50Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo by Plato
RRP: $32.19$30.17The fundamental tetralogy on Socrates' final days.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family circa... -
Modlib-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
$22.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601753Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Ray Hilborn 9780199798148
RRP: $14.18$10.28Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems. Many have voiced their concerns about marine... -
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: $25.80$20.50Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing... -
Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future: Hope for Animals, Food Security, and the Environment by Ira van Eelen 9781590566978
RRP: $24.50$17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566978Author Ira van EelenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US