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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...
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...
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...
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...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
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....
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 Joyous Science
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best 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...
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition
Author: Robert Pirsig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'A brilliant and original book... Everybody should read it' Guardian Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in...
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings
Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Dramatic, compelling and comprehensive - the great cycle of Norse myths retold for the modern reader. The extraordinary Scandinavian...
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...
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus
Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for...
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...
Human, All Too Human
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through...
The Book of Master Mo
Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...
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 Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)
Author: Dr Geza Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the...
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 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...
A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...
Ethics
Author: Benedict de Spinoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the...
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
Author: A. Spearing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle...
The Talmud: A Selection
Author: Norman Solomon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in...
Roots of Yoga
Author: James Mallinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first collection of its kind- a compendium of source texts on yoga, translated, introduced and edited by two...
Dialogues and Letters
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks...
Essays and Aphorisms
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by...
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Author: Friedrich Schiller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Schiller's famous treatise on art, politics and society 'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all...
Spiritual Verses
Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical?...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...
The Social Contract
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words...
The Dhammapada
Author: Valerie Roebuck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A new translation by Valerie Roebuck of this seminal work of Buddhist literature One of the best-known and best-loved...
The Enneads
Author: John Dillon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that...
The Laws
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...