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"The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right for an...

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power...

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the corridors of power during a major crisis or after a ministerial reshuffle? How do new government ministers get to grips with their portfolios and priorities? Who guides and supports them? And...

Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice climbers to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938058493Author Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-HaqqaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Institute for Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (Isca)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951252Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the...

'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker 'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so...

Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant, to Seneca, the philosopher of temperance who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692710609Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams) 372g

At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own? Drawing on personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951062002Author Jeff DivineFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Twin Flames UniversePublisher Twin Flames UniverseWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

What does it mean to do public policy ethics today? How should philosophers engage with ethical issues in policy-making when policy decisions are circumscribed by political and pragmatic concerns? How do ethical issues in public policy differ between...

An accessible and engaging journey through the philosophical themes and concepts of Ted Lasso Ted Lasso and Philosophy explores the hidden depths beneath the vibrant veneer of AppleTV's breakout, award-winning sitcom. Blending philosophical...

In this book, Christine Tappolet offers readers a thorough, wide-ranging, and highly accessible introduction to the philosophy of emotions. It covers recent interdisciplinary debates on the nature of emotions as well as standard theories of emotions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195168907Author GraylingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams)...

You think, therefore you are. Get a straightforward rundown on philosophy from the ancient world to today If you've ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of crime and punishment, you're an amateur philosopher...

We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things - a constantly expanding...

Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behaviour and freedom of individuals. This raises important questions about how these institutions ought to function, and the extent to which...

'I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experienced... There is never anything out here but my shadow, that no one treads on any more'When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848701902Author Ulfrid NeumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 3120g

'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'...

Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being...

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories-such as religion, science, and art-has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques,...

Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant's vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together. This is the first volume of narrative autoethnographic work in which invited contributing authors were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645498073Author Philipp MainlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Irukandji PressPublisher Irukandji Media Pty LtdWeight(grams) 360g

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a...

Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of...

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age -- liberal, socialist and conservative. "Individuals have rights," Nozick writes in his opening sentence,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640323070Author George MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903083253Author Phillip RothfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Clinamen Press LtdPublisher Clinamen Press Ltd

"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy...

Let one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offer you a radical, positive approach to living in today's world. With moving anecdotes and practical tools to apply in your own life, this is an engaging guide to Buddhism for Buddhists and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908867353Author A F CrowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Footsteps PressPublisher Footsteps PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The downsides of monogamy are felt by most people engaged in long-term relationships, including restrictions on self-discovery, limits on friendship, sexual boredom, and a circumscribed understanding of intimacy. Yet, a "happily ever after" monogamy is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486217628Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 694Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2023 A New York Times 'Critics' Pick' Book of 2023 'A real achievement' New Statesman 'Beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and profundity, exuberance and rigour, of Oxford analytic...

One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of modern philosophy of religion, and is infamous for his arguments for the existence of God. In this...

A philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed...