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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald Robertson
RRP: £14.99£11.39How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian - taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day - through to his reign... -
The Agony of Eros: Volume 1 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: £13.99£7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533379Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm -
The Little Book of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Key Thinkers and Theories You Need to Know by Rachel Poulton
RRP: £6.99£5.00If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Philosophy is a quest for wisdom and knowledge; philosophia in Ancient Greek literally means "love... -
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
RRP: £27.00£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846352Author Ryan HolidayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm *... -
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought by Paul Kleinman
RRP: £12.99£8.18Discover 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 would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring... -
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9780241638668
RRP: £19.99£14.35Get to grips with the concepts that shaped the way we think about ethics, politics, and our place in the universe. Explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories of key philosophers in a clear and simple way, The Philosophy Book is the perfect... -
The Essential Mozi: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings by Mo Zi
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world' The Mozi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical,... -
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns 9780195324877
RRP: £25.49£19.44Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days... -
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger 9780241537374
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday TimesThe year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris... -
This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean by Alain Stephen
RRP: £7.99£5.60An informative and accessible guide to all of the great philosophers' best-known theories, explained through their most famous quotes.We may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche, but what did they believe? What were their famous... -
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Philip Goff 9781846046018
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Suddenly the universe appears in a new and much more revealing perspective. A splendid introduction to this fascinating idea' Philip PullmanFrom a leading philosopher of mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of... -
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen 9781640320130
RRP: £4.99£4.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320130Author James AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton 9780520290747
RRP: £16.99£14.65In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £25.00£14.66Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, The Spectator, Prospect, Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times, TLS, New York Times, and Washington Post. 'This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be... -
Postsecularism: The Hidden Challenge to Extremism by Mike King 9780227172476
RRP: £31.25£30.17Spirituality in the post-9/11 world is a complex topic. The detente between secular culture and religious faith that characterised the 20th century, the mutual ignorance pact, has been shattered. From the rise of Islamic extremism to the American... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave
RRP: £16.99£13.09In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99£10.15One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to... -
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide by Samir Chopra 9780691210674
RRP: £22.00£17.20How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it's an essential part of being humanToday, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But... -
Critical Realism: Basics and Beyond by Hubert Buch-Hansen 9781352010657
£28.38Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realism This new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic... -
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: £12.99£9.09AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living... -
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848315150
RRP: £8.99£6.70Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy?Known as the first modern theologian, SorenKierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish 'golden age'. A philosopher,poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and theimportance of... -
How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566144Author Massimo PigliucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £25.00£22.19'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of... -
The Thought of Death and the Memory of War by Marc Crepon 9780816680061
RRP: £19.99£17.54War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars-or more precisely the memories of war-of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim's death as well as the end of... -
Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet by Roger Scruton
RRP: £14.99£9.80The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. In Green Philosophy,... -
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine
RRP: £12.99£9.26Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired but this is not the case. William B. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a... -
A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger by Michael Friedman 9780812694253
RRP: £17.99£12.30Beginning with a confrontation in 1929 in Switzerland, Michael Friedman examines how the work of three pivotal philosophers evolved and intertwined over several years, ultimately giving rise to two very different schools of thought - analytic philosophy... -
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life by Epictetus 9780691177717
RRP: £14.99£11.38A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism-translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can... -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: £19.00£11.44A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of... -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a... -
Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: £16.99£15.07Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of... -
Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics Mathura Umachandran 9781032120119
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white... -
Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order by Mark Sedgwick
RRP: £25.00£18.02The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, present and futureTraditionalism is founded on ancient teachings that, its followers argue, have been handed down from... -
The Scope of Philosophy by John Young 9780852447338
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852447338Author John YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 483g -
The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny by Dylan Trigg 9780821420393
RRP: £27.99£24.54From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts... -
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton
RRP: £46.00£37.08In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical... -
The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences by Brian Epstein 9780190871758
RRP: £30.49£22.37We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are... -
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories by Mathilda Della Torre
RRP: £14.99£10.64'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219458
RRP: £49.99£44.97In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780199535712
RRP: £4.99£3.80The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were aged...