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Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...

Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...

Author: Miyamoto Musashi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121Ð180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...

Author: Aristotle Format: Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384Ð322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was a critical skill...

Author: Roel Sterckx Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 481A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy -- and how they help us understand China todayIn Ways of Heaven, leading...

Author: Karl Marx, Friedrech Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working...

Author: Susan Brind Morrow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Buried in the Egyptian desert some four thousand years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest...

Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be...

Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Meditations is considered the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy.

Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages:

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of ConfuciusÕs sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together...

The best available English translation.... [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.' , American Political Science Review

Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...

Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 "If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting." Daily Mail "This charming book weaves hedgehogs into...

'A brilliant and original book... Everybody should read it' Guardian Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant...

Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history -...

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An...

The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin...

Author: Niall Kishtainy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds...

'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...

This collection captures the essence of a remarkable woman, one of the foremost thinkers of our century Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a...

Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince is the Bible of realpolitik,...

Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the individual impose...

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws...

The legendary author of Behave shows that free will can not exist and explores the radical and disturbing implications What if free will is an illusion? In Determined one of...

The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By...

We all face questions on an almost daily basis related to truth and post-truth, particularly in the political sphere, terrorism, globalization, immigration and asylum, social responsibility, media and social-media ethics,...

Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflicts inherent in life between living aesthetically, and living morally In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man...

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and...

The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the...

A beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life's throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a. 'your inclusive AF feminist book club' Through...

'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These...

The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times) Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets...

Highly acclaimed writer and philosopher Alain de Botton turns his attention to interior design and architecture In The Architecture of Happiness, bestselling author Alain de Botton explores one of our...

The paperback edition of the liberating Sunday Times bestseller is set to enhance readers' lives even further with extra content on how we can all spend our four thousand weeks....

A simple peasant seeks spiritual fulfilment in this apparently artless tale of popular piety 'Here, see my belongings- a bag of dry crusts on my back and the Holy Bible...

A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century....

The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an...

Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels...

'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why...

Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate...

'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone -...

A revised edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, featuring 37 new essays. A fully updated and expanded edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, including 37 new essays. Free speech and...

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