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Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
The Sunday Times bestseller that exploded the God debate All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. And in this wise and life-affirming book, non-believer Alain...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and
'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of...
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts
Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to...
The Art of Travel
Top Ten bestseller in hardback, and over 60,000 sold in hardback and trade paperback Few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling- taking off for somewhere...
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...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which informed Foucault's...
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews...
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...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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,...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self
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...
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...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
'Ree, one of Britain's best-known living philosophers ... has delivered an impressive reimagining of what a history of philosophy ought to be' (Prospect) This fresh and brilliant history of how...
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how...
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,...
Be Useful: Seven tools for life
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof *Featuring new bonus material Arnold Schwarzenegger's 77 Lessons...
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things that Matter - A Fully
A revised edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, featuring 37 new essays. A fully updated and expanded edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, including 37 new essays. Free speech and...
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: Classic Editions
The worldwide bestseller that reveals the alternative to growing old and the key to lasting health. 'The poet-prophet of alternative medicine' Time The worldwide bestseller that offers an alternative to...
The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values
One of the most widely recognised personal development classics in the world Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results...
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of...
Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living
Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live...
Make Your Bed: Feel grounded and think positive in 10 simple steps
The revolutionary new title that will empower readers to change themselves, and the world, for the better starting with the simple task of making the bed. Admiral William H. McRaven...
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
The highly anticipated follow up to Simon Sinek's global bestseller Start with Why Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work. This is not a...
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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...
Utopia
New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of...
The History of Philosophy
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...
I Am Right, You Are Wrong
The book that shows us how to become better decision makers and think in less confrontational and antagonistic ways - now a Penguin Life title Most of our everyday decision-making...
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...
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose Until the End of Time is Brian...
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
\"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...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind What is human consciousness and how is it possible?...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless...
The Prince
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,...
Beyond Good and Evil
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...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
This collection captures the essence of a remarkable woman, one of the foremost thinkers of our century Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a...
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
The Guardian's Michael Sandel spearheads a pre-election campaign to inject ethical debate into politics Considering the role of justice in our society and our lives, Michael Sandel reveals how an...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
A passionately argued work on the philosophy of aesthetics No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects...
The Blood of Others
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality 'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread,...
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...
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
Is there still anything to live for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love and caring for one's own family? 'Is there still anything to live for? Is anything...
Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition
An inquiry into a very modern art form - photography. Barthes personal investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of critical theory of the twentieth century. Barthes...
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your
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....
Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
A new collection of essays from the world's most influential political thinker In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes...
Because We Say So
Essays on American hegemony from the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism For over fifty years, one fact has dominated global politics- the United States can respond to any...
The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything
Ancient philosophy for modern life from Harvard's most popular professor - a Sunday Times Top 10 and International Bestseller The first book of its kind, The Path offers a profound...
Aristotle: Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today? There is in Athens a rather plain...
The Trouble With Being Born
Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it...