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On Risk Mark Kingwell 9781771963923
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it? As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic,... -
Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space by Mark Kingwell
Booksplease Price: £31.52There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and... -
Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface Mark Kingwell 9780228028000
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in... -
A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism by Mark Kingwell 9780271027739
Booksplease Price: £32.96This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political... -
Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism by Mark Kingwell 9780228014348
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankenstein's monster to the evil overlord... -
Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations Mark Kingwell 9781771966412
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism."Question authority," the popular 1960s slogan commanded. "Think for yourself." But what started as a... -
Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams by Mark Kingwell 9780300126129
Booksplease Price: £28.58A new perspective on a beloved cultural icon, its place in our history, and its meaning in the American imagination This elegantly written appreciation of the Empire State Building opens up the... -
LA+ Imagination by Tatum Hands 9781940743363
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Paradisiacal, utopian, dystopian, heterotopian - islands hold an especially enigmatic and beguiling place in our imagination. Issue 07 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ IMAGINATION... -
Best Canadian Essays 2026 by Brian Bethune 9781771966740
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26“A superb collection of national thinkers, crackling with insight on the issues of the age.”—ChatelaineSelected and introduced by Brian Bethune, Best Canadian Essays 2026 provides a unique... -
In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy by Andrew D. Irvine 9780802038951
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £59.73Mark Kingwell, John Ralston Saul, Jan Zwicky, Thomas Hurka, Will Kymlicka, Graeme Hunter, Paul and Patricia Churchland, Michel Seymour, Arthur Schafer, Charles Taylor-the list of Canadian... -
LA+ Sense Karen M'Closkey 9781961856301
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.40Ever more technologies are being created to sense our environment, and much is being learned about how animals and plants sense theirs. We often think of these tools as extending our capacity for... -
Toronto, No Mean City by Eric Arthur 9781487516543
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty... -
Toronto, No Mean City: Third Edition, Revised by Eric Arthur 9780802065872
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty... -
Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought April Carter (University of Queensland) 9780745619200
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Liberal Democracy and its Critics examines the contribution of eleven contemporary political social theorists to understanding democracy today. The theorists are prominent in political and... -
KAWS: FAMILY by Julian Cox 9781636811093
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.29A lavishly illustrated tour of the methods, process and sources behind the iconic pop artworks of KAWS American artist KAWS is one of the most famous living contemporary artists today. Renowned... -
Catholics and Millennialism: A Theo-Linguistic Guide by Warren A. Kappeler III 9781433129643
RRP: £90.40Booksplease Price: £79.85Philosophers of religion such as Mark Kingwell regard millenarian dreams as humanity's most powerful hopes for transformation, transcendence, apocalypse, and utopia. In Catholics and Millennialism: A... -
The Art of Science by Borris Castel 9781442600980
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The result of an unusual collaboration between a physicist with a strong interest in the histories of art and science, and a philosopher with a broad knowledge of science as a human activity, The Art... -
LA+ Vitality by UPENN Landscape Architecture 9781943532650
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.10Vitality is liveliness, to be alive. To be alive is to have the ability to harvest energy for movement, growth, and self-replication. But without health, vitality is just mechanistic. In this issue... -
Best Canadian Essays 2021 by Bruce Whiteman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. "The exceptional essay,"... -
Once upon a Time in the West: Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination by Jan Zwicky
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the West's most... -
Once upon a Time in the West: Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination by Jan Zwicky 9780228017080
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the West's most... -
Matthew Pillsbury: City Stages by 9781597112376
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.03Matthew Pillsbury: City Stages offers a paean to the craft and visionary potential of large- format, black-and-white photography as well as to the vibrancy of the cultural landscape at a transitional... -
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud 9781551119946
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.98Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud's most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of... -
Choose Your Bearing: Edouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics by Benjamin P. Davis 9781399522434
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.05What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back... -
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton 9780300212334
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.91New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come by How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism?... -
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson 9780231168595
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship... -
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson 9780231168588
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £59.48A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship... -
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs by Max Page 9781932364958
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the influence of the author on cities and planning is that... -
Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty by Modris Eksteins
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.45In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through... -
The Vehement Passions by Philip Fisher 9780691115726
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our... -
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep Jonathan Crary 9781804298404
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.2424/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through... -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £22.93"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right... -
A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern 9780691127682
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing... -
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.62Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human... -
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 9780674027466
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.49Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said,... -
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £30.30"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when...