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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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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

Author: Sebastian JungerFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 180g, 176 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and...

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...

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 -...

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...

'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...

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...

Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul...

"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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....

The essential guide to surviving modern life - a crash course in emotional maturity from the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy This is a book about everything you...

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...

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...

'H ow rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between...

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Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and Alice...

'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 UK'S BEST SELLING ADULT NON-FICTION BOOK OF ALL TIME. The book that inspired the BAFTA and Oscar-award-winning short animated film available on BBC and Apple+. A book for all...

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 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...

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....

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...

'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 -...

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,...

Acclaimed poet and translator Aaron Poochigian's vibrant new translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations captures and accentuates an aspect of the best-selling work of classical antiquity that other English translations have,...

Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes,...

The beloved multidisciplinary classic on the spaces we inhabit and the dreams and memories that fill them A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in...

The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern...

One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a lively new translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and wrong is a human thing' What does it mean to...

Spinoza's greatest philosophical work. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture...

A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that's no reason to turn your...

The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings...