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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: Martin Hagglund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'It is always lucid, and is at its heart remarkably simple. You could extract its essence and offer it...

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: 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: 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: 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...

'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES 'Courageous' OBSERVER 'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS 'There are few writers with Li's power' DOUGLAS STUART The best book...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...

'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...

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...

Perfect for readers of Women in Clothes , this beautifully designed philosophical guide to fashion explores art, literature, and film to uncover the hidden meaning of a well-chosen wardrobe. We...

'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...

The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions The story of philosophy is an epic tale- an exploration of the ideas, views...

The groundbreaking idea that some systems actually benefit from shocks, and how to expose ourselves to them - now in paperback In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and...

Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make...

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,...

Author: Margaret D. Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Memoirs portraying life in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan in the 1930s.

\"A great iconoclast. . . Taleb, a Wall Street trader turned essayist, is a thinker touched by genius\" Matthew Syed, author of Black Box Thinking Why should we never listen...

Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Julian Burnside Format: Paperback...

You didn't choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions-this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that your existence is fleeting, an inspired sense of...

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...

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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a foolproof guide to making the...

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...

As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew...

Author: Sissela Bok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Lying, a brilliant exploration of happiness set in the context of the world's great philosophers, leaders,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs- Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one Unfailingly wise and...

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do NextWhat part of your beautiful self were you taught to...

Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons,...

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...

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought:...

'Fiercely argued and timely' (New Yorker), this is a must-read for the #MeToo era from a rising star philosopher Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is...

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...

A ground-breaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive...

Author: Brendan Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A brilliant book . . . brilliantly written. You really do need to read it' Adrian Chiles 'Mixing the sacred and...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Simon Winchester Format: Hardback...