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The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence by Baltasar Gracian
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54A unique collection of advice for life, Baltasar Gracian's The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence is a philosophical gem, and perhaps the first 'self-help' book ever written. This Penguin Classics... -
Aníbal Quijano: Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power by Aníbal Quijano 9781478030324
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $42.22The Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano is widely considered to be a foundational figure of the decolonial perspective grounded in three basic concepts: coloniality, coloniality of power, and the... -
Identity Politics and Tribalism: The New Culture Wars by Nikos Sotirakopoulos
RRP: $28.41Booksplease Price: $26.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360623Author Nikos SotirakopoulosFormat PaperbackImprint -
Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for The End of The World as We Know It Dr Ginie Servant-Miklos 9781350400481
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $41.29Climate change, biodiversity collapse, pandemics, wars, resource shortages, inflation, socio-economic inequality... after decades of progress and prosperity, the world has hit the limits to growth... -
Philosophy For Dummies Tom Morris 9781119875673
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.10You think, therefore you are. Get a straightforward rundown on philosophy from the ancient world to today If you've ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of... -
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and... -
The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution by Edward Dutton
RRP: $28.41Booksplease Price: $26.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360753Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville 9780140445411
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration... -
Why We Think the Things We Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $10.74Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing... -
The Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.19This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder... -
The Spirit of Hope Byung-Chul Han 9781509565191
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.14A 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... -
How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audienceCan jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was... -
War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception by Paul Virilio
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $22.78Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing"About the AuthorPaul Virilio... -
Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world by Karen Armstrong 9781529114799
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.97'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to... -
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson 9781909470965
RRP: $33.25Booksplease Price: $27.08This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the... -
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $36.10Booksplease Price: $22.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104810Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $25.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511830Author Jason StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: $29.43Booksplease Price: $28.86The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,... -
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott 9780691161037
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.88James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
RRP: $49.38Booksplease Price: $47.10The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,... -
America by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.17From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-"a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"-Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun... -
The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $36.71In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing... -
On Love and Loneliness by J. Krishnamurti 9780062510136
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062510136Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
The Right to Have Rights by Stephanie Degooyer 9781784787554
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.39Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can... -
Designing in Dark Times by Virginia Tassinari 9781350070257
Booksplease Price: $34.69The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her... -
On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End by Ben Ware 9781788739993
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.80On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching... -
The Parasite by Michel Serres 9780816648818
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $23.85Influential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres's arguments is that by being... -
Ideology: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Freeden
Booksplease Price: $19.48Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies... -
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.38'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... -
The Dark: Selected Writings of Brendan Hughes by Brendan Hughes 9781088131664
Booksplease Price: $22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088131664Author Brendan HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint -
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
Booksplease Price: $39.35After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but... -
Life Worth Living: A guide to what matters most by Miroslav Volf
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the... -
Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to... -
Assemblage Theory Manuel DeLanda 9781474413633
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $36.27Manuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept... -
A Hut at the Edge of the Village by John Moriarty 9781843518006
Booksplease Price: $26.60There is a radical agency in John Moriarty's work that we as readers don't always spot. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear... -
Is Your Work Worth It?: How to Think About Meaningful Work by Christopher Michaelson 9781541703407
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.02A critical examination of the complex and revealing questions we must ask ourselves about our work and the value it brings to ourselves and others.According to recent studies, barely a third of... -
Boredom: A Lively History by Peter Toohey
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $18.98A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $46.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.32It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking...