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Wicked by Gregory Maguire 9780755331604
RRP: $14.18$9.55An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and... -
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
RRP: $29.66$26.12Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he... -
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
RRP: $12.89$8.64'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.89$9.17The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous... -
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
RRP: $12.89$9.17'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 philosopher in the English language. His arguments in... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
RRP: $10.31$7.47In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence... -
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $16.76$11.73'A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment ... will reorient our reading of Foucault's major works' Didier EribonThe Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and... -
A Model for a Better Future by Kim Alexis 9780785268574
RRP: $14.18$12.37Supermodel, spokeswoman, athlete, and mom Kim Alexis shares her story and the convictions she's developed.Book InformationISBN 9780785268574Author Kim AlexisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781853264610 [USED COPY]
$9.60Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics... -
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 9781853264610
RRP: $6.44$4.46Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics... -
21st-Century Statecraft: Reconciling Power, Justice and Meta-Geopolitical Interests by Nayef Al-Rodhan 9780718895754
RRP: $40.31$39.62From civilisational frontier risks associated with new challenges like disruptive technologies, to the shifting nature of great-power conflicts and subversion, the 21stcentury requires a new approach to statecraft. In 21st-Century Statecraft, Professor... -
The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle by Myisha Cherry
RRP: $23.85$20.54When it comes to injustice, especially racial injustice, rage isn't just an acceptable response-it's crucial in order to fuel the fight for change. Anger has a bad reputation. Many people think that it is counterproductive, distracting, and... -
The Oxherd Boy: Parables of Love, Compassion, and Community by Regina Linke 9780593580547
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593580547Author Regina LinkeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: $37.35$29.54"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that... -
Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays by Hans Maes 9780198744085
$50.62Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any... -
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
RRP: $23.21$14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611802320Author Chogyam TrungpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James W. Douglass 9781570757556
$31.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570757556Author James W. DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
The Puzzle of Ethics by Peter Vardy 9780006281443
RRP: $16.76$11.73A guide to the complex subject of ethics explained in clear and entertaining language. This new edition is fully revised and updated. This popular introduction to the subject of ethics poses vital contemporary questions and explores the... -
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: $25.80$18.43'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Year'Carlo Rovelli's imaginative rigour, his lively humour and his beautiful writing are inspiring' Erica WagnerOne of... -
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: $11.60$8.32Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad... -
An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: $14.18$10.02Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity... -
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life by Thomas Nagel 9780197681671
RRP: $25.79$22.10This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death, the holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin... -
Ethical Theory: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments Daniel Muñoz 9781032335162
RRP: $32.24$28.13In this new kind of introduction to ethical theory, Daniel Muñoz and Sarah Stroud present 50 of the field’s most exciting puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Over the course of 11 chapters, the authors cover a huge variety of topics, starting... -
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo 9781590309858
RRP: $27.09$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309858Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant 9780199552467
RRP: $18.05$12.58'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity... -
As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence by Nigel Shadbolt 9780300268294
RRP: $25.80$21.90A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software... -
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $11.60$8.32Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: $25.80$18.95The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing... -
Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law by Elizabeth Brake 9780199774135
RRP: $50.94$37.24Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what moral significance does it have? This book examines its morally salient features - promise, commitment, care, and contract - with surprising results. In Part One,... -
The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics by Gilbert Harman 9780195021431
RRP: $100.61$58.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195021431Author Gilbert HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 311g -
Catharine Trotter Cockburn by Ruth Boeker 9781009048682
RRP: $21.93$18.99This Element offers the first detailed study of Catharine Trotter Cockburn's philosophy and covers her contributions to philosophical debates in epistemology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of religion. It not only examines Cockburn's view... -
Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature by Miles Richardson
RRP: $25.80$19.66How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural world, revolutions in farming, science and industry have seen the human bond with nature eroded with the... -
The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability by Stephen Darwall
RRP: $34.77$27.62Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this question in a compelling manner-along with the moral skepticism and ethical confusion that ensue-result, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure to appreciate the... -
The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers by Ariel Guersenzvaig 9781538179918
RRP: $38.70$34.42What ends should designers pursue? To what extent should they care about the societal and environmental impact of their work? And why should they care at all? Given the key influence design has on the way people live their lives, designing is fraught... -
The People Of The Lie by M. Scott Peck
RRP: $14.18$10.02A gripping book from the bestselling author of hugely popular self-help book, The Road Less Travelled. Leading psychiatrist and self-help pioneer Dr M.Scott Peck reveals his encounters with evil, during sessions with patients of his psychiatric therapy. ... -
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $10.31$7.47'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good... -
What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values by Smith 9780684872575
RRP: $16.76$15.65Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780684872575Author SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong by David Edmonds 9780691165639
RRP: $16.76$12.53A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing... -
Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
RRP: $30.95$26.88To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of...