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The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
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,...
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 Great Mystery: Science, God and the Human Quest for Meaning
Author: Alister McGrath, DPhil, DD Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 There is currently huge interest in the question of human nature and identity, and what the human...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
Author: Alan Ryan (Princeton University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to...
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die
Author: Steven Nadler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions. In...
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Author: Benjamin Storey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History
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...
30-Second Religion: The 50 most thought-provoking religious beliefs, each explained in half a minute
Author: Russell Re Manning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Whether you wish to understand the key differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, to glimpse the many gods of...
Doomsday Cults: A Fatal Attraction
Author: Jonathan Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 For hundreds of years seers and prophets have used the Bible's Book of Revelations to whip up hysteria and...
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
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Author: Larissa MacFarquhar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people...
Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna'S Mulamadhyamakakarika
Author: Naagaarjuna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 334 This is not a standard translation of "Mulamadhyamakakarika." Translator Nishijima Roshi believes that the original translation from Chinese into Sanskrit...
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...
Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife in Tibet, Sikkin and Bhu
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Author: Margaret D. Williams
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Number of Pages: 240
Memoirs portraying life in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan in the 1930s.
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,...
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free
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...
Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Benjamin J. Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment...
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century
Author: Niheer Dasandi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards Only four countries around the...
The Dawning Moon of the Mind
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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...
Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays
Author: Colin McGinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Pithy, direct, and bold- essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.In Philosophical...
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay
Author: John Cottingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters...
Inconsistencies: Volume 7
Author: Marcus Steinweg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality.Those who...
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...
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...