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Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New translation for Penguin Classics Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in...
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...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
The Koran
Author: Mr N J Dawood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Koran, in a masterful, fully revised translation The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit...
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...
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 Bad Christian's Manifesto: Reinventing God (and other modest proposals)
Author: Dave Tomlinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Dave Tomlinson's book How to Be a Bad Christian was written for all those who want God without the...
The Golden Ass
Author: Apuleius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This bawdy novel from Ancient Rome is given new significance by renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer. Peter Singer has breathed...
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
Author: Daniel Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the acclaimed author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college...
How To Practise: The Way to a Meaningful Life
Author: Dalai Lama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic inspirational work on how to live a meaningful life from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 'The Dalai...
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: Classic Editions
Author: Dr Deepak Chopra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The worldwide bestseller that reveals the alternative to growing old and the key to lasting health. 'The poet-prophet...
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The essential guide to surviving modern life - a crash course in emotional maturity from the bestselling author...
The Foucault Reader
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An introduction to the work of Michel Foucault, including detailed excerpts from all of his major works The Foucault...
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...
The Myth of Sisyphus
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The Myth of Sisyphus is one of the most profound philosophical statements written this century. It is a discussion...
Committed Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful...
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From the author of multi-million bestseller, The God Delusion, an exciting, accessible argument for atheism, written for...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
Author: Priya Satia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British...
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...
Being Human: How to become the person you were meant to be
Author: Steve Chalke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Your life is precious - a precious gift. It is sacred; every moment of it. The opportunity to live...
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...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram...
Utilitarianism and Other Essays
Author: Jeremy Bentham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of...
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...
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...
100 Favorite Bible Verses
Author: Thomas Nelson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the life-changing the power of Scripture. 100 of the best-loved Bible verses bring encouragement, direction, insight, and hope for your...
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...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the...
Crimes of the Father
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. A timely, courageous and powerful novel about...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our...
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Is there still anything to live for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love and caring for one's...
Discourse on Method and the Meditations
Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method...
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...
The Republic
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for...
The History of Philosophy
Author: A. C. Grayling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions The story...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it...
I Am Right, You Are Wrong
Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In overturning conventional wisdom, Edward de Bono will help you to become a better thinker and decision maker....
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...
The News: A User's Manual
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The...
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...
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...
The God Delusion: 10th Anniversary Edition
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The international bestselling broadside that has taken the world by storm The God Delusion caused a sensation...
A Short History of Decay
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers A Short History of Decay (1949)...
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...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal...
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...