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One of C. S. Lewis' works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of Lewis' conversion, it...

From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing.Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war...

Investigating the trail of philosophical leads in HBO's chilling True Detective series, an elite team of philosophers examine far-reaching riddles including human pessimism, Rust's anti-natalism, the problem of evil, and the 'flat circle'. The first book...

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music.By implication it sets up a theory of all the arts; the...

Liberalism is under attack. From the rise of nationalism and populism to the decline of trust in institutions, liberals are facing unprecedented challenges. But what does it mean to be a liberal in the 21st Century? And how can we defend the values that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999638412Author Peter KingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 844Imprint Catafalque PressPublisher Catafalque PressWeight(grams) 1107gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954872004Author Rizwan VirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Bayview Labs, LLCPublisher Bayview Labs, LLCWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, and exploring all of the most important branches of thought including philosophy of science, philosophy of religion and feminist philosophy in a uniquely visual way, this book is the...

The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of dialectics.About the AuthorTheodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788269126631Author Howdie MickoskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Howard MickoskiPublisher Howard MickoskiWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A unique anthology of essays exploring the philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run. It features writings from some of America's leading philosophers, including Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taliaferro, and J.P. Moreland. A...

Traditional humanistic education has been under assault for many years. In this, his final book, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism - one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten - is still possible. Proposing an...

Everyone can run. Whether it is a jog around the park on a Sunday morning, or lining up with 40,000 other people at the start of the London Marathon, all it requires is a pair of trainers and the open road. But where does that road lead and why do we run...

Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek...

This book is one of the most important recent books on Hegel, a philosopher who has had a crucial impact on the shape of continental philosophy. Published here in English for the first time, it includes a substantial preface by Jacques Derrida in which...

Embrace tranquil simplicity, rustic elegance, and imperfect beauty. Diane Durston's meditation on the Japanese philosophy of wabi sabi will inspire you to focus on the blessings hiding in your daily life. Celebrating the way things are rather than how...

Throughout history Taoists have promoted the development and restoration of the Three Treasures-- body, breath, and spirit--through the gentle practice of qigong. At the center of the qigong practice are the Eight Brocades, a series of postures that...

Take a magic carpet ride through Disney's wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring stories Philosophy begins in wonder, and there's no question that Disney's immersive worlds and...

'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone - should read this book' EDWARD ENNINFUL'An extraordinary book - an...

A step by step, passage by passage analysis of the complete Republic. White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the important interconnections among its elements, and the coherent and carefully developed train of though which motivates its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441338365Author Kahlil GibranFormat HardbackImprint Peter Pauper Press Inc.Publisher Peter Pauper Press Inc.Weight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche contains two works, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) and The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), originally published separately, then republished together in the 1886 edition of Nietzsche's works. They...

Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre,...

Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an “anarchist.” It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578084459Author Will AlexanderFormat PaperbackImprint Oyster Moon PressPublisher Oyster Moon PressWeight(grams) 231g

The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but...

Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another dramatic confrontation with the local Rottweiler, Anthony McGowan realises it's high time he and Monty had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402334Author G.E.M. AnscombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche’s relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately and comprehensively within the field of architectural...

Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543644Author Colin AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Like Alain de Botton crossed with Charlie Brooker, Foley succeeds in educating and enlightening us in this wry take on the existential dilemmas of modern life. 'Fascinating . . . the quest for happiness and how we are getting it all wrong' Jeremy Vine,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544849Author Greg RestallFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947701083Author Christine WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Queen of Peace MediaPublisher Queen of Peace MediaWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845990763Author Bhaktivedanta A.C. Swami PrabhupadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Intermex Publishing LtdPublisher Intermex Publishing Ltd

In this classic text on ageing wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's King Lear, and T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding, as well as devoting attention to suffering.In...

G. E. M. Anscombe's Intention is a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. The work has been enormously influential despite being a dense and largely misunderstood text. It is a standard reference point for anyone engaging with philosophy of action and...

There are few scientists of the twentieth century whose life's work has created more excitement and controversy than that of physicist David Bohm (1917-1992). For the first time in a single volume, The Essential David Bohm offers a comprehensive overview...