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Treatise on Toleration
Author: Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious belief, Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration was written...
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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Author: Matthew B Crawford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence,...
God Is Stranger: Foreword by Justin Welby
Author: Krish Kandiah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 What happens when God turns up? 'Has God become as familiar and forgettable as a fridge magnet? That's the...
A Brief History of Christianity
Author: Bamber Gascoigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and women who shaped it. It is a...
Right and Wrong: How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices and build a better society
Author: Hugh Mackay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 How can you be sure you're doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong?...
The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
Author: Maria Michela Sassi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 An acclaimed study of the diverse origins of ancient Greek philosophyIn this acclaimed book, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual...
The Analects
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...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars Aesthetics offers a...
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...
Utopia
Author: Thomas More Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In...
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live
Author: John Sellars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful lives What aspects...
A History of Judaism
Author: Martin Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the...
The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
Author: Julian Baggini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving-or even discussing-divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement,...
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now
Author: James M. Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment...
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain
Author: Stanislas Dehaene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An illuminating dive into the latest science of how we learn - and how we do it better than...
Early Greek Philosophy
Author: Jonathan Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and...
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Tough times don't last. Tough people do. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and...
On Living and Dying Well
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek In the...
The Communist Manifesto
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...
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex...
Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. And in this wise and life-affirming...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
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...
Judas and Jesus: Two Faces of a Single Revelation
Author: Jean-Yves Leloup Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A radical reinterpretation of the relationship of Judas and Jesus * Reexamines the role and the purpose the key...
Lives: Buddha
Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Buddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha revolutionised the religious ideas of...
City of God
Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of...
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what...
The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism
Author: Alan Unterman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical tradition. 'The...
The Imagination Muscle
Author: Albert Read Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON...
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo
Author: Kenan Malik (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by...
The Lost Art of Scripture
Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 An urgent review of the use and abuse of holy texts in today's world - and a call for...
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon: The beautifully illustrated Sunday Times bestseller about friendship and hope
Author: James Norbury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The charming, illustrated story of two friends, who travel through the seasons sharing the lessons they learn on their way; the...
A History of God
Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The bestselling and seminal work from one of our foremost commentators on religion. The idea of a single devine...
Feminine Mysteries in the Bible: The Soul Teachings of the Daughters of the Goddess
Author: Ruth Rusca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 An exploration of the repressed, esoteric feminine mysteries in the Bible through the lives of four women, all archetypes...
Zen Masters of Japan: The Second Step East
Author: Richard Bryan McDaniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread...
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
Forbidden Love
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Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything)
Author: Jordan Erica Webber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS? If you could upload all of your memories into...
The Trouble With Being Born
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not...
Buddhist Scriptures
Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
The Celestial Hunter
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...
In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II
Author: Pope St John Paul II Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever...
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a lively new translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and...
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Author: Chuang Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure...
The First Love Story
Author: Bruce Feiler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four...