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Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.80**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for... -
The Cause of Hitler's Germany by Leonard Peikoff 9780142181478
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181478Author Leonard PeikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *... -
On Freedom Timothy Snyder 9781847928061
Booksplease Price: £13.27**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Visionary ... buy or borrow this book, read it, take it to heart' OBSERVER'Everyone who cares about freedom should read this book' ANNE APPLEBAUM'Passionate, intimate, compelling - a clarion call' PHILIPPE SANDSA... -
The Spirit of Hope Byung-Chul Han 9781509565191
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.02A 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,... -
Philosophy for Life: And other dangerous situations by Jules Evans
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray 9780008492847
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 9780141988511
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99The #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) - now in paperback.How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty?Jordan Peterson has helped millions of... -
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.63"There are at least two kinds of games," states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. "One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the... -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn 9781526605191
Booksplease Price: £13.89A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' THE TIMES 'A... -
The Communist Manifesto (Collins Classics) Karl Marx 9780008619978
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.88HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Published in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel's pamphlet The Communist Manifesto is a landmark text in socialist and Marxist... -
Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone 9780192846969
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a typical, systematic philosopher. Despite her short life,... -
Citizens by Jon Alexander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.40MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ 'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times 'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate 'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' - Ece... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism John Gray 9780141999432
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'Britain's best philosopher - he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order' Telegraph, Books of the YearEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary ... -
Eroticism by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he... -
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.80From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityWhy should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why... -
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505912Author Eric HofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 148gDimensions(mm)... -
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World Christine Rosen 9781847922083
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.62The Extinction of Experience explores the way a broad range of technologies, from the microwave to the sophisticated computer simulator, now influence our everyday choices—what we eat, how we educate our children, how we get to and from work, and how we... -
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story by Charlie Mackesy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.70The companion book to the BAFTA and Oscar winning animated short film.A journey, in search of home...This beautifully made hardback celebrates the work of over 100 animators across two years of production - with Charlie's distinctive illustrations... -
The Journey by James Norbury
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.61Take them on a journey this Christmas with the wise and heartfelt words of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon'James has a way to speak to your soul. This book is nothing short of comforting and heartwarming' VEX KING'While the drawings have the charm of... -
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99An odyssey into life's challenging philosophical questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions.One of the most influential books written in... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.42The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.64SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99DEBUTED AT NO.1 ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTNO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMALAre you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our... -
How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking by Viv Groskop
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95A powerful book about what happens when women find their voice.INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION AND BONUS CHAPTER ON 'HOW TO OWN THE ZOOM''The ultimate guide to public speaking. Inspirational.' Mary Portas'I recommend Viv Groskop's How to Own the Room to... -
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Lyndsey Stonebridge 9781529933406
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLyndsey Stonebridge FBA is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of We Are Free to Change the World:... -
Focusing: How to Gain Direct Access to Your Body's Knowledge (25th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Bestseller Revised and Updated) Eugene T Gendlin 9781844132201
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'Focusing' is a technique first developed 25 years ago by American psychologist and philosopher Eugene Gendlin. Hugely influential, it offers six specific steps you can take to open up your inner world of deeper feelings and intuition - and shows you... -
The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) Naomi Wolf 9781784870416
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOREvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on... -
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our... -
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROne of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of LifeAlain de Botton presents a one-stop shop for solving the... -
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperbackIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.43A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
On Violence by Hannah Arendt 9780241631645
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.01From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a... -
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto 9781035012800
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.75Need a rental person who does nothing?Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.77This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
How To Be A Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living Massimo Pigliucci 9781846045073
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37A philosophy still relevant in the modern world, Pigliucci, one of the top philosophers on Twitter and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Newsweek, Washington and Huffington Posts, shows how you can apply stoicism to your everyday life and make... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton 9780241970058 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £17.10THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between... -
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth Kohei Saito 9781399612999
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62'Simply indispensible' SLAVOJ ZIZEK'Necessary and energising' JOHN VAILLANT, author of FIRE WEATHER THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT INSPIRED A GENERATION OF ACTIVISTSIn SLOW DOWN, award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito shows us how nothing but... -
How To Be an Antiracist: THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Ibram X. Kendi 9781529111828
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. *THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER - NOW REVISED AND UPDATED*In HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world's most influential scholars on racism, demolishes the idea of a...