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Friendship by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49AUTHORITATIVE 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'... -
Towards the Light by A. C. Grayling 9781472532145
Booksplease Price: $50.52In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for... -
Democracy and Its Crisis by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.54The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of... -
Among the Dead Cities by A. C. Grayling
Booksplease Price: $50.52Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations... -
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A. C. Grayling 9781441154361
Booksplease Price: $50.52This book discusses a subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible... -
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make... -
The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $13.88The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled... -
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A. C. Grayling 9781847061737
Booksplease Price: $110.51A subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style.A book on... -
Russell: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A.C. Grayling introduces both his technical... -
The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to life by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK.Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not... -
Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the Subject by A. C. Grayling 9780198752431
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.79This is the first volume of a two-volume introduction to and guide through philosophy. It is intended to orientate, assist, and stimulate the reader at every stage in the study of the subject. Eleven... -
The Good Book: A Secular Bible Professor A. C. Grayling 9781408871348
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.The Good Book, A. C. Grayling's best-selling secular bible, is now published in b-format paperback for the first time.About... -
What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06A.C. Grayling answers the most important question - How do we live a good life?One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out what we value - what principles we want to live by and... -
For The People: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy A. C. Grayling 9781836431442
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.53Around the world the foundations of democracy, freedom, civil liberties are being eroded - what can be done? Are we living through the end of the democratic moment? While democracy once seemed the... -
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.62There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the... -
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A C Grayling 9781620401927
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620401927Author A C GraylingFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher... -
Thinking of Answers: Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by A. C. Grayling 9781408809532
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Thought-provoking short essays by Britain's leading public philosopher that show us how to discover our own answers to life's challenges 'While most philosophy is written in abstruse and ponderous... -
Truth, Meaning and Realism: Essays in the Philosophy of Thought by A. C. Grayling 9781847061546
Booksplease Price: $56.32A.C. Grayling focuses on a series of central philosophical concerns in this excellent collection of essays, with each one contributing to the contemporary debates on these matters.A.C. Grayling is... -
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.64'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. ... -
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling 9780241993200
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.87'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher,... -
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times Professor A. C. Grayling 9781408864623
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier... -
Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God by A C Grayling 9780195177558
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $29.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195177558Author A C GraylingFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher... -
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling 9780861547258
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $20.83As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER ... -
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But... -
A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $27.28A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and... -
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind Professor A. C. Grayling 9781408870020
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from... -
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space A. C. Grayling 9780861549153
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER ... -
The Art of Always Being Right: The 38 Ways to Win an Argument by A C Grayling 9781783342310
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783342310Author A C GraylingFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gibson SquarePublisher Gibson... -
For the Good of the World: Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now A. C. Grayling 9780861542666
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.38'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. ... -
The Challenge of the Future: As We Rush into Tomorrow, What Should We Keep from Yesterday? A. C. Grayling 9781836433071
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.53In an era of instability, how do we build a better future? We live in a time of unprecedented technological change and uncertainty, from AI to transhumanism. Humankind is faced with the question... -
An Introduction to Philosophical Logic Anthony C. Grayling (Birkbeck College, Lonf=don and St. Anne's College, Oxford) 9780631199823
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $63.02An Introduction to Philosophical Logic has been a popular mainstay among students taking courses in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language since it was first published in 1982.About the... -
England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines by David Edgerton
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.69The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War MachineThe history of England and... -
The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25In The Godless Gospel, Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Jesus - and the Christian values he promotes - by focusing solely on his teachings in the Gospel. Stripping away the religious... -
Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant 9780099519768
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating from around 70 BC.Lying unnoticed for months amongst... -
Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind by Simon McCarthy-Jones 9780861544578
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.07For humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought. 'Excellent and beyond timely.' A. C. Grayling Scientific advances and new technologies... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.87'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence:... -
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter... -
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya 9781529156164
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022"Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but,... -
Autobiography by John Robson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07One 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...