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On Liberty and the Subjection of Women
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....
Beyond Happiness: How to find lasting meaning and joy in all that you have
Author: Anthony Seldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 As Britain's best-known headmaster, Sir Anthony famously introduced happiness, or well-being, lessons at his school, Wellington College. In 2011,...
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
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...
Deep Pockets: Snooker and the Meaning of Life
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...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
'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...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
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...
Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western
Although Chinese Marxism - primarily represented by Maoism -is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in...
The Foucault Reader
An introduction to the work of Michel Foucault, including detailed excerpts from all of his major works The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him'...
Status Anxiety
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Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life.' - David Epstein, bestselling author of Range 'Wonderful' - Chris Bosh,...
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Author: Amanda Montell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology...
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for
An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual' Observer In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the...
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
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Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the Times-bestselling author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college student studying philosophy, Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from...
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
From the bestselling author of How to Live, an enthralling and original new book about a group of young thinkers, the birth of existentialism and some of the biggest questions...
Ethics
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...
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and
'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan ' Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement ' Tom Holland 'Elegant and powerful, Pepera's magnificent book elevates our...
Committed Writings
A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role...
When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times
The million-copy bestselling monk returns with this essential book of Zen wisdom for modern living Modern life doesn't always go our way. Loss, rejection, uncertainty and loneliness are unavoidable parts...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Penguin Classics relaunch Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how...
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of Life A healthy mind knows how to hope, hanging on tenaciously to the reasons to keep going. A healthy mind...
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Author: Noga Arikha Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio
Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham...
Becoming Enlightened
Author: Dalai Lama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From His Holiness the Dalai Lama, an inspiring guide to ending the cycle of suffering in our lives In...
Russian Thinkers
This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming...
On the Origin of Species
The anniversary paperback edition of our new On the Origin of Species edited by Professor William Bynum This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William...
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future?
The 'most dangerous philosopher in the West' returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us,...
The Wisdom of Morrie
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Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives
Author: James P. Steyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Bound to spark a major national discussion, Which Side of History? offers a collection of over 30 bold...
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
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Permission to Rest
We all have the power to transform our lives from the inside out by simply slowing down. Resting is one of the most impactful practices we can adopt for self-compassion,...
Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and
What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his starting point, Norbert Sachser presents fascinating...
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
Author: Cher Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' Male entitlement takes many forms. To...
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 'ACCESSIBLE AND CONVINCING' - SALLY ROONEY Capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment. Therefore, argues award-winning Japanese philosopher...
Althusser, The Infinite Farewell
In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell-originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time-Emilio de Ipola contends that Althusser's oeuvre is divided between two fundamentally different and...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West
Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). In 1965, a seventy-year-old man-soon...
A Little History of Philosophy
A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so...
Protagoras and Meno
This edition includes a list of suggestions for further reading, a glossary of important philosophical words and phrases, notes Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras...
50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus...
The Happiness Hypothesis: Ten Ways to Find Happiness and Meaning in Life
An uplifting exploration of ancient wisdom for our modern lives and how it can make us happier Every culture hands wisdom down through generations. What doesn't kill you makes you...
The Art of Danish Living: How to Find Happiness In and Out of Work
A beautiful, research-backed guide with illustrations, photography and inspiration for how to live and work like the happiest people in the world It is well known that Denmark is one...
Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy for ever. He co-authored the infamous Principia Mathematica, the most difficult book ever written on the logic of mathematics. A pioneer in logical analysis, he...
The Metaphysics
Aristotle's probing look at the fundamental questions of philosophy The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of...
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
One of Britain's most popular public philosophers introduces the six ways we can drastically change the way we think in order to ensure a tomorrow- long-term thinking for a short...
Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide
The last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists,...