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Catastrophe Ethics: How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad by Travis Rieder 9780715655320
RRP: $25.80$17.52Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avoid... -
The Chain: The gripping, unique, must-read thriller of the year by Adrian McKinty
RRP: $11.60$6.73THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR CHILD BACK IS TO KIDNAP ANOTHER CHILD'A blazing, full-tilt thriller that entirely justifies the hype' GUARDIAN'A heart-stopping roller coaster' DAILY MAIL* * * * *YOUR PHONE RINGS.A STRANGER HAS KIDNAPPED YOUR CHILD.TO FREE THEM... -
Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic by Seneca
RRP: $15.47$8.93DISCOVER THE ENDURING LEGACY OF ANCIENT STOICISM Since Roman antiquity, Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters have been one of the greatest expressions of Stoic philosophy. In a highly accessible and timeless way, Seneca reveals the importance of cultivating... -
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623176242Author Vanessa Machado De OliveiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love by Janet W. Hardy
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399579660Author Janet W. HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) by Ed Winters
RRP: $21.92$15.84An empowering and deeply informative book - MobyChallenge their beliefs; change the worldIf you are a vegan, you'll know all too well how provocative it can be - you never know when you'll be challenged or how. But being able to face down and rebut... -
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual by Ward Farnsworth
RRP: $27.08$18.82"Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn't just a book to read-it's a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation... -
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook by Ward Farnsworth
RRP: $27.08$18.31A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life's... -
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $25.79$18.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642602Author Marcus AureliusFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: $18.05$14.18Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in... -
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
RRP: $21.92$14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133148Author Thomas LigottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
RRP: $20.63$12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609801949Author Stephen LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)... -
Meditations: The Philosophy Classic by Marcus Aurelius 9780857088468
RRP: $15.47$10.32A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he... -
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
RRP: $12.89$8.64THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to... -
Determined: Life Without Free Will by Robert M Sapolsky 9781847925534
RRP: $32.25$23.25One of the world's greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and challenges us to rethink the notions of choice, identity, responsibility, justice, morality and how we live together... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9780199213610
RRP: $10.31$7.65'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.89$9.17'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and... -
Letters from a Stoic (Collins Classics) by Lucius Seneca
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
RRP: $25.80$18.43'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times'Britain's best philosopher' The TelegraphEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new... -
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
RRP: $19.34$14.47One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius 9780008425029
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
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... -
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
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... -
The Precipice: 'A book that seems made for the present moment' New Yorker by Toby Ord
RRP: $16.76$11.33What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? 'The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator 'Ord's analysis of the science is exemplary . . ... -
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
RRP: $16.76$11.73'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York TimesWhy can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to... -
Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness by Epictetus
RRP: $12.89$8.57"An immense dose of Epictetus would do us all a great deal of good, and I am grateful (beyond irony) to Tom Wolfe for reviving Epictetus" - Harold Bloom. So what makes the writings of this former slave so powerful today? Epictetus observed that although... -
The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion (Collins Classics) by Epictetus 9780008619916
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery... -
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns 9780241578193
RRP: $32.25$23.25'The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth' Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment ... Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn't just about saving the poorest from... -
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill
RRP: $14.18$10.02WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and... -
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... -
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
RRP: $23.21$16.71How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant,... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $16.76$12.24In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as... -
Lying by Sam Harris 9781940051000
RRP: $15.47$10.32As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and... -
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
RRP: $14.18$10.02Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists - agree on one point: science has... -
Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James 9781857886108
RRP: $14.18$9.55'A wonderful book. If you come across it, you must read it.' - John CleeseWhat does it mean for someone to be an a**hole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $14.18$10.02This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they... -
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
RRP: $10.31$7.47How can Stoicism inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives?In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons in Stoicism, philosopher John Sellars weaves together the key ideas of the three... -
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $19.34$12.64How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in... -
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $16.76$11.73'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!'One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed through the beliefs of his age. These writings, which did much to establish his reputation as a philosopher, offer some of his most... -
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $11.60$8.00THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez'Seriously important' Bill Bryson'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' GuardianRacist pseudoscience may be on the rise,...