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The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing
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Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
Author: Cher Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and...
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton
Author: Stanley Corngold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States....
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
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Reason, Action and Morality
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No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
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The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell
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Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Practical wisdom for everyday life: embrace perseverance, strength and happiness with stoic philosophy
Author: Donald Robertson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure...
The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to life
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The Great Philosophers: Turing
Author: Andrew Hodges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing. Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable...
Deep Pockets: Snooker and the Meaning of Life
Author: Brendan Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A brilliant book . . . brilliantly written. You really do need to read it' Adrian Chiles 'Mixing the sacred and...
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
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Author: Toby Ord Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all...
The Open Society and its Enemies: Volume I: The Spell of Plato
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Gods Callgirl
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Readings/Writings
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished And Selected Writings
Author: Robert M Pirsig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,...
This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean
Author: Alain Stephen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An informative and accessible guide to all of the great philosophers' best-known theories, explained through their most famous quotes. We may...
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Author: Scott Turow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide
Author: Patrick Curry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400...
The Popes: A History
Author: Viscount John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 An irresistible account of some of history's most illustrious - and iniquitous - figures, from one of...
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Author: Anthony Gottlieb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to...
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History
Author: Paolo Zellini Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The...
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
Author: Donald D. Hoffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A ground-breaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two Do we see the...
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...
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 The definitive one-volume history of Christianity by one of the world's leading historians of religion Christianity, one of the...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though...
The Book of All Books
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher A man named Saul...
The Apocryphal Gospels
Author: Simon Gathercole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and...
Seneca: A Life
Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Author: Jordan B. Peterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE GLOBAL NON-FICTION PHENOMENON OF 2018 - now in paperback Jordan Peterson has become one of the world's...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Author: Robert M. Pirsig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'A brilliant and original book... Everybody should read it' Guardian An odyssey into life's challenging philosophical questions during...
The Decay of Lying
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive...
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
Author: David Brooks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 When did we stop connecting with other people? David Brooks argues that we can only solve our crisis of...
Tao Te Ching
Author: Lao Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...
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...
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
Author: Roman Krznaric Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 One of Britain's most popular public philosophers introduces the six ways we can drastically change the way we think...
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...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Author: Dr John Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation- how it came to be written, how its contents were...
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...
Confessions
Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Penguin Classics relaunch The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years...
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...
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...
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...