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The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Lucid, compelling, enlightening "Marcolongo is today's Montaigne."-Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."-The... -
The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.84Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does... -
Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95'Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, author of Joy Luck Club'A generous book and a beguiling read'... -
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation by Paul Ricoeur 9781316508206
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The Rediscovery of Meaning, and Other Essays by Owen Barfield 9780956942333
Booksplease Price: $23.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956942333Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by Trevor Cox
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained' The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?If you've ever felt... -
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.09Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so,... -
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition Saul A. Kripke 9780631135210
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $32.53In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.About the AuthorBorn in Bay Shore, New York, the son of a... -
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky 9780231175968
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.56Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist... -
Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics by Chris Knight
Booksplease Price: $22.79A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar... -
The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality by Joseph Raz
Booksplease Price: $65.31This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. Raz begins by presenting an analysis... -
Dream Life: A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique by Donald Meltzer 9781912567126
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567126Author Donald MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $21.30Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the... -
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works by David Crystal
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we... -
Cratylus by Plato 9780872204164
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.58"It is. . . remarkable that Reeve's is the first new English translation since Fowler's Loeb edition of 1926. Fortunately, Reeve has done an excellent job. His version is not slavishly literal but is... -
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy by Professor of Philosophy Bret W Davis 9780197650585
Booksplease Price: $53.08Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books,... -
The A-Z of Positive Thinking: A new vocabulary to change your life by Neil James Tuson
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.33It's fun: try playing with positive words when writing to friends and colleagues; enhance your CV with words which jump off the page and inspire confidence; above stimulate good energy in your life... -
Words And Rules Prof Steven Pinker 9780753810255
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.How does language work? How do children learn their... -
200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy Anja Steinbauer 9781786276940
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two... -
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou 9781844672240
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Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938 - 1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies by Volker Munz 9781119166337
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Animal Languages: The secret conversations of the living world by Eva Meijer
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95'A rich compendium of incidents, anecdotes and studies illustrating the linguistic abilities of animals . . . a rewarding book' Sunday TimesDolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork... -
Jam Tomorrow?: Why time really matters in economics by Charles Crowson 9781915635624
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.40Over 100 years ago, Einstein changed the way we understood time from being a fixed measurement to a relative one which, rather than being 'correct' as it had been before, was now 'proper' to the body... -
Discourse and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch 9780521426053
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The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books"The Monist essays are included... -
Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating by Bonaventure Soh Beje Ndikung 9781915609083
Booksplease Price: $16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609083Author Bonaventure Soh Beje NdikungFormat PaperbackPage Count 6 -
Poetic Diction by Owen Barfield
Booksplease Price: $30.19Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader... -
Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs (Third Edition) by David H Petraeus
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $22.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986238604Author David H PetraeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint
Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Philosophy by Gary Cox 9781350066588
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.58Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This...
The Good Citizen's Alphabet by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55`E: Erroneous: Capable of being proved true'; `J: Jolly: The downfall of our enemies'; `M: Mystery: What I understand and you don't' . . . Enter the delightful, satirical world of the Good Citizen,...
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition by George Lakoff
Booksplease Price: $34.80When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic...
Hyphen by Dr. Pardis Mahdavi
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the...
The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages by Shoshana Felman
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love...
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained by Colin McGinn
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529822Author Colin McGinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint <
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.15Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist...
In the Beginning was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust by Harry Redner 9780520303140
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $40.36Now that the collective death of mankind has become a possibility, no other thought can remain unimpaired. Harry Redner traces historically the onset of this acute state of Nihilism from what might...
Logos: The First and Last Theory of Everything Stella Skopelitou 9781917704779
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Logos: The First & Last Theory of Everything�is a philosophical work arguing that language (Logos) is not merely a medium but also the foundation of reality itself. This book will take readers on a...
The Human Voice by Giorgio Agamben 9781803095417
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.84An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped history, politics, and thought. What does it mean to have a voice-and how does it...
The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language Rein Raud 9781793646606
Booksplease Price: $104.14The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language argues that the practice of philosophizing is significantly influenced by linguistic structures. Against the...
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes: Explaining the Universe with the Alphabet Andrea Moro 9780262554015
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262554015Author Andrea MoroFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint