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What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies 9780141993720
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25'Brilliant. You won't find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together' Bill BrysonCelebrated physicist and global bestselling... -
Autobiography by John Robson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand... -
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism by Andrew Copson
RRP: $270.80Booksplease Price: $242.03The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism presents an edited collection of essays that explore the nature of Humanism as an approach to life, and a philosophical analysis of the key humanist... -
Carrington: An Honourable Man by Christopher Lee
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.61"One of the country's greatest post-war statesmen" Sir John MajorLord Carrington was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary when the Argentinians invaded the Falklands in 1982. Absent in Israel on the... -
Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first... -
A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World Thomas Crump 9781845298975
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never been seen before... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. GraylingNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.30THE 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... -
What I Believe: Humanist ideas and philosophies to live by Andrew Copson 9780349438429
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $20.24Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and... -
Rousseau's Dog: A Tale of Two Philosophers by David Edmonds
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run. He was fleeing intolerance, persecution, and enemies who proclaimed him a madman,... -
Big Questions From Little People . . . Answered By Some Very Big People by Gemma Elwin Harris
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Why is the sea salty?How far away is space?Why can't I tickle myself?Why can't we live forever?Children ask the most interesting and challenging questions. But how are we supposed to answer them..... -
The Little Book Of Philosophy by Andre Comte-Sponville
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the... -
W.V.O.Quine Alex Orenstein 9781902683317
RRP: $77.68Booksplease Price: $70.83The most influential philosopher in the analytic tradition of his time, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) changed the way we think about language and its relation to the world. His rejection of the... -
The Philosophy Foundation: The Philosophy Shop (Paperback) Ideas, activities and questions toget people, young and old, thinking philosophically by Peter Worley 9781781352649
Booksplease Price: $42.44Edited by Peter Worley with chapters by: Harry Adamson, Peter Adamson, Alfred Archer, Saray Ayala, Grant Bartley, David Birch, Peter Cave, Miriam Cohen Christofidis, Philip Cowell, James Davy, Andrew... -
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart 9780300125078
Booksplease Price: $73.96Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive philosopher known as the 'atheist Jew', Baruch de Spinoza. Yet the wildly... -
W.V.O.Quine by Alex Orenstein 9781902683300
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $192.26The most influential philosopher in the analytic tradition of his time, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) changed the way we think about language and its relation to the world. His rejection of the... -
Games: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation by David Blagden 9781108447324
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $38.20The essays from prominent public intellectuals collected in this volume reflect an array of perspectives on the spectrum of conflict, competition, and cooperation, as well as a wealth of expertise on... -
Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers by Christopher R. Browning 9780521774901
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $42.86Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi... -
Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers by Christopher R. Browning 9780521772990
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi... -
Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities... -
Power and Greed: A Short History of the World by Philippe Gigantes 9781841196893
Booksplease Price: $34.04This lively and fascinating book by a professor of history deals with human greed and power and how these determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a hair-raising journey through time,... -
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question by Jeremy Vine
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us, to Caitlin Moran on the joy of Friday... -
Moralia: v. 1 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: $52.88Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Examined Lives: Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche by Prof. James Miller 9781786072672
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $44.04Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a... -
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.43Europe - and the question of whether to stay in or leave - has dominated British politics for the last three years. Yet how much do you really know about the Continent?From the Ice Age to the Cold... -
America in Retreat: The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19 by Michael Pembroke
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.05The story of how America turned its back on the world... In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with the founding of the UN, a new era of... -
The Mystery of Things Prof A.C. Grayling 9780753820193
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top philosopher.'Human genius has done much, and promises much,... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes Anthony Gottlieb 9780300180473
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.66The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century According to the philosopher... -
Ethics: A Beginner's Guide Peter Cave 9781780745763
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95Should we aim to maximize happiness? Are there characteristics that we should foster within ourselves? Why is it important to act morally? From the ancient Greeks to Sartre, from utilitarianism to... -
The Ideological Brain: How Rigid Beliefs Harm Our Minds & Bodies – And Why It Matters by Leor Zmigrod 9781405975148
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54'Fascinating, insightful, lucidly and entertainingly written' A. C. GRAYLING, author of The History of Philosophy'Extraordinary, eye-opening, startlingly original' CASS R. SUNSTEIN, co-author of... -
The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination Adam Zeman 9781526609748
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'Fascinating, absorbing and educative' A. C. Grayling'Highly original and beautifully written' Dominic LawsonA compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific... -
Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy Paul Chilton 9781108744027
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $46.35Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make sense of the phenomenon of Brexit without... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?In eleven sparkling... -
Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy Paul Chilton 9781108840811
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $135.95Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make sense of the phenomenon of Brexit without... -
The Philosophy Foundation Provocations: Philosophy for Secondary School by David Birch
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.54David Birch's Provocations: Philosophy for secondary school will help teachers to present ideas and stimulate discussions which both accommodate and engage adolescent appetites. Foreword by A. C... -
The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman 9780062897947
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.29Discover the universe's last unknowns-here are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of... -
Reporting the Universe by E. L. Doctorow 9780674016286
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $56.32"The writer," according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported." And what... -
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with... -
What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $23.08A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex... -
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch 9780140172324
Booksplease Price: $42.65This guide to morals is the culmination of the author's lifetime of work in philosophy. The author is concerned with the humanistic part of the history of philosophy, Plato to structuralism, and how...