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The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini 9781788361118
RRP: $31.40$30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361118Author Neema ParviniFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 2100mm * 135mm * 13mm -
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
RRP: $31.48$23.00THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you... -
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson 9780241407622
RRP: $52.50$37.84A #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellerThe long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the worldIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an... -
The Essential Keynes by John Maynard Keynes
RRP: $27.28$19.09Edited with an introduction by ROBERT SKIDELSKY'Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance'John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of the... -
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $31.48$20.85How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in... -
Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights by Kimberley Brownlee 9780198871194
RRP: $184.80$167.58Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781529083477
RRP: $23.08$15.77Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history.Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics... -
Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780691258690
RRP: $29.38$25.79A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for changeMany contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging... -
The Republic: The Influential Classic Plato 9780857083135
RRP: $25.18$16.80The newest deluxe edition in the bestselling Capstone Classics Series This ancient classic has had a make-over. In recent years these Capstone Classic deluxe editions have caught the book buying public's imagination. The volumes of international... -
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: $23.08$16.32From 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... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: $31.48$23.00In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to... -
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE 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... -
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy by Prof Fabienne Peter 9780198872382
RRP: $126.00$113.67Political decisions have the potential to greatly impact our lives. Think of decisions in relation to abortion or climate change, for example. This makes political legitimacy an important normative concern. But what makes political decisions legitimate?... -
Anti-Oedipus Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781780936611
RRP: $52.48$47.06The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and... -
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving by Gavin Francis 9781800819252
RRP: $16.78$12.16'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin 'Utterly compelling' Henry Marsh 'Wonderful ... A heartbreaking chronicle of the NHS's near-demise, and a call to action' Leah Hazard 'A reminder of what is important, what we hold dear, and... -
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER) by Jenny Odell 9781529924619
RRP: $23.08$16.32**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that 'time is money.' . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' EsquireWe're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us... -
How To Be A Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living Massimo Pigliucci 9781846045073
RRP: $35.68$25.79A 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 Essential Mozi: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings by Mo Zi
RRP: $27.28$19.09'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,... -
On Violence by Hannah Arendt 9780241631645
RRP: $16.78$12.16From 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... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781857150865 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$13.57Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women's emancipation in the context of the ever-widening urge for human rights and individual freedom that followed in the wake of these two... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781857150865
RRP: $27.28$19.09Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women's emancipation in the context of the ever-widening urge for human rights and individual freedom that followed in the wake of these two... -
All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard 9780241543238
RRP: $27.28$19.09A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: $20.98$14.93'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language... -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: $60.80$48.09"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that... -
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
RRP: $23.08$16.32In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem. We think of empathy - the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves - as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But while it inspires care and protection in personal... -
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Douglas Kellner 9780415289771
RRP: $35.68$31.96One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an... -
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice Anastasia Berg 9780861549481
RRP: $42.00$30.01Having children is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren’t making it at all. Across the developed world, fewer and fewer people are becoming parents, and many see themselves as never doing so. We seek... -
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: $27.28$19.09'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 Power of Words by Simone Weil
RRP: $16.78$12.16'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good'The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes,... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: $42.00$30.85The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing... -
Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $20.98$14.93Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.Once we were drivers on the open road.Today we are more often in the back seat... -
Identity Politics and Tribalism: The New Culture Wars by Nikos Sotirakopoulos
RRP: $31.40$30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360623Author Nikos SotirakopoulosFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm *... -
Expanding World, The - Towards a Politics of Microspection Michael Cronin 9781780990774
RRP: $20.98$18.04Are we really living in a shrinking world? Is it true that diversity is on the decline everywhere? Are we condemned to live on a planet without difference or hope? The Expanding World challenges the basic notion of a shrinking world in current debates... -
The Big No by Kennan Ferguson
RRP: $41.98$36.83What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no What does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better world, to not come up with a plan? To just say "no"? Against the ubiquitous demands for positive solutions,... -
Freedom and Equality: Essays on Liberalism and Feminism by Clare Chambers 9780192897909
RRP: $168.00$153.43Should the state recognise gender? Can a liberal state discourage traditional family structures? Is women's sport compatible with equality of opportunity? Should feminists defend women's freedom to choose cosmetic surgery? Is genital cutting always... -
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' Herald One of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The... -
The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School by Raymond Geuss 9780521284226
RRP: $33.58$24.65Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from the natural sciences as essentially 'reflective': the knowledge it provides guides us towards... -
Beyond Bourdieu Will Atkinson (University of Bristol, UK) 9781509507498
RRP: $31.48$28.52Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of... -
Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by David Miller
RRP: $18.88$13.55This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the... -
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: $31.48$23.00A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to...