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Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. Austin
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €14.53If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two... -
Hirst-isms by Damien Hirst
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.90A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien HirstHirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated artist... -
Dyskolos by Menandros 9788772898759
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €8.09Menander was born in Athens in 342 BC and drowned in Piraeus in c. 290 BC. He wrote more than 100 comedies, but with regards to his character studies, he can be regarded as an heir to the tragedian... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 by Diogenes Laertius
Booksplease Price: €30.37Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean... -
Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature by John Bellamy Foster 9781583670125
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.99Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental... -
Walking With Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles by Gary Hayden
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.14"If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright." So said Danish writer Soren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk... -
The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome by Annette L. Giesecke
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €17.03As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's center lay two walled cities, one at war and... -
Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece by Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Anaxagoras, Antisthenes, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Bias of Pri Citium 9786185048716
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.54His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep and painful awareness of the dark abyss that it... -
Keep It Together: philosophy for everyday emergencies by Marie Robert
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Twelve great thinkers guide you calmly through life's difficult times, and help you to keep it together, even when everything seems to be falling apart. Whether you are dealing with an unexpected... -
De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780674992009
Booksplease Price: €30.82Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures by Ben Gazur 9781789297089
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.40Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series.From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced... -
Notes on the Art of Life Haim Shapira 9781786787736
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Notes on the Art of Life is Haim Shapira's version of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book - a discursive and intensely personal collection of thoughts on life; a tribute to the importance of the here and now;... -
The Big Lebowski and Philosophy: Keeping Your Mind Limber with Abiding Wisdom by William Irwin
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €18.38Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and... -
Through a Sparkling Glass: An A-Z of the Wonderland of Wine by Andrea Frost 9781742705316
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €15.17Through a Sparkling Glass will both educate and entertain you on the wonder and joy of wine and its place in our lives and culture. From the importance of ageing (wine and people) to Champagne cork... -
A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food Ben Gazur 9781837052332
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.72British food has an unsavoury global reputation, but the folklore which made it what it is can be traced back millennia. Folklorist Ben Gazur guides you through the dark alleys of British history to... -
50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books by Tom Butler Butler Bowdon
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in... -
The Rebel by Albert Camus 9780141182018
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €7.92A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus... -
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08THE 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... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius 9780141396903
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical... -
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius 9780872205871
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €17.16Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our... -
The Swedish Art of Ageing Well: Life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you by Margareta Magnusson
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61A WATERSTONES BEST HOME & LIFESTYLE BOOK OF 2023----------This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings. Wear stripes. Eat chocolate... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: €19.79Booksplease Price: €18.73Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Tyrants by Ben Gazur 9781789298444
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.51Explore the tyrants who have shaped the course of history. All power corrupts, but absolute power can turn people into absolute monsters. The true stories behind the men and women who led tyrannies... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson
RRP: €16.19Booksplease Price: €12.91Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the... -
Dante's Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Dante Alighieri 9781419776755
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.09Acclaimed animators Paul and Gaetan Brizzi adapt Dante's literary classic Inferno in the sweeping, dramatic style that brought The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Fantasia 2000 to life In this powerful... -
Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush by Steve Boggan
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.29Have you ever imagined giving up your day job and heading for the hills in search of gold? Journalist Steve Boggan decided to do just that when the price of the precious metal scaled dizzying heights...