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Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights by Elisabeth De Fontenay
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.27A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, Elisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida's uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal... -
Trixy: A Novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 9780810140431
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.89Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten American author and women's rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911). The book decries the then-common practice of... -
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and... -
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality by Joel Michael Reynolds
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.14A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and... -
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit'... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.62'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian'Will change the way you see the world' Daily... -
Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think by Andy Norman 9780063002999
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories? How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence? Why is our society so politically polarized?Astonishingly... -
Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think by Andrew Norman
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €19.62Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories? How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence? Why is our society so politically polarized?Astonishingly... -
The Precipice: 'A book that seems made for the present moment' New Yorker by Toby Ord
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? 'The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator ... -
How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World by Colin Beavan 9780062236715
Booksplease Price: €12.50"This is the book where self-help turns into helping the world-and then turns back into helping yourself find a better life. Fascinating and timely!"-Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on... -
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry by P. W. Singer 9780801474361
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €16.97Some have claimed that'War is too important to be left to the generals,'but P. W. Singer asks'What about the business executives?'Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries,... -
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry by P. W. Singer 9780801474361 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €5.92Some have claimed that'War is too important to be left to the generals,'but P. W. Singer asks'What about the business executives?'Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries,... -
Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries by Isa Leshko
Booksplease Price: €42.78There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet-a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been... -
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright 9781982111601
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and... -
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
Booksplease Price: €15.17From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and...