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I Ching or Book of Changes: Ancient Chinese wisdom to inspire and enlighten by Wilhelm Richard
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83Find inspiration from one of the most important books in the world's literature . . . __________ The I Ching is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it... -
Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle
RRP: $29.40Booksplease Price: $27.93One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord's justly acclaimed... -
A Thousand Plateaus Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781780935379
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $43.89A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical... -
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction by William M. Hamlin 9780190848774
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator,... -
Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.48The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably... -
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben 9780804732185
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.15The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of... -
The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion (Collins Classics) by Epictetus 9780008619916
RRP: $8.38Booksplease Price: $7.92HarperCollins 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... -
I and Thou by Martin Buber
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.78'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught... -
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23How 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... -
Plato: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.99This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his... -
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34: Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians by Athina Mitropoulos 9781350020993
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A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $41.27A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Tablet Best Book of the... -
Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century: a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This anthology spans the wide range of her thought, and... -
The Republic by Plato
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $15.02The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophyPlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9780199213610
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.11'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... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781857150551
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.55Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever... -
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control by Ryan Holiday 9780593191699
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $25.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593191699Author Ryan HolidayFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 9780140447804
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek... -
Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times by Brigid Delaney 9780349436296
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.43Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue, moderation and self-discipline, adapting this ancient knowledge to inspire practical advice for everyday life... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $48.74Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and... -
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.66First published in 1844, Soren Kierkegaard's concise treatise identified-long before Freud-anxiety as a profound human condition, portraying human existence largely as a constant struggle with our... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf 9781529392760
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads... -
Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68One of Kierkegaard's central writings, "Works of Love" is a profound and indispensable examination of the human heart. 'Deep within every man', Kierkegaard writes, 'there lies the dread of being... -
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.78The Sunday Times Bestseller'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry___Everyone says they... -
The Essential Jung: Selected Writings by Anthony Storr
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.08A sparkling and up-to-date new cover for one of Fontana Press's strongest-selling titles. 'Jung was on a giant scale...he was a master physician of the soul in his insights, a profound... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33: Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic Matthew Barr (Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, UK) 9781350021037
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.88This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas'... -
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media by John Durham Peters
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $37.07When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth:... -
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.48The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an... -
How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body by Matthew Beaumont 9781804290071
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.87You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait... -
Absence – On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by BC Han
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.39Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence... -
Plato: Complete Works by Plato
RRP: $140.68Booksplease Price: $101.07Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit'... -
The Politics by Aristotle
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.73In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras,... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.70'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker... -
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism Larry Siedentop 9780141009544
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70From Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society... -
Republic by Plato 9780872201361
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.28The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for... -
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought by Paul Kleinman
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions!Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato...