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The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

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Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...
The Analects

The Analects

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Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of ConfuciusÕs sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together...
The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece

The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece

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Author: Maria Michela Sassi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 An acclaimed study of the diverse origins of ancient Greek philosophyIn this acclaimed book, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual...
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

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Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...
The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

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Author: Karl Marx, Friedrech Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working...
Utopia

Utopia

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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...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984

Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984

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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...
The Imagination Muscle

The Imagination Muscle

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Author: Albert Read Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON...
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

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Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex...
The Popes: A History

The Popes: A History

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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...
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now

A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now

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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...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

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Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo

From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo

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Author: Kenan Malik (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by...
The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

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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,...
A History of Judaism

A History of Judaism

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Author: Martin Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the...
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live

Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live

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Author: John Sellars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful lives What aspects...
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain

How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain

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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...
Judas and Jesus: Two Faces of a Single Revelation

Judas and Jesus: Two Faces of a Single Revelation

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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...
Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

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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...
Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Pure Reason

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Author: Immanuel Kant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique...
On Living and Dying Well

On Living and Dying Well

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Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek In the...
Early Greek Philosophy

Early Greek Philosophy

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Author: Jonathan Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and...
City of God

City of God

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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...
Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal

Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal

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Author: Jefferson Bethke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the Western notion of the nuclear family...
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.

God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.

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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...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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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...
A History of God

A History of God

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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 Rig Veda

The Rig Veda

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Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

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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 Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying

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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...
Zen Masters of Japan: The Second Step East

Zen Masters of Japan: The Second Step East

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Author: Richard Bryan McDaniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread...
The Book of Chuang Tzu

The Book of Chuang Tzu

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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...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples

Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples

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Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...
The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels

The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels

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Author: Philip Jenkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus' death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects,...
Buddhist Scriptures

Buddhist Scriptures

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Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

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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 Chinese Zodiac: A seriously silly guide

The Chinese Zodiac: A seriously silly guide

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Author: Anita Mangan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In this time of self-awareness and self-interest, The Chinese Zodiac takes an alternative and hilarious look at all 12 signs of...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

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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 Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

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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 Celestial Hunter

The Celestial Hunter

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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Author: John Romer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 A collection of funerary texts - spells, prayers and incantations - to enable the dead to overcome obstacles and...
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for...
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

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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...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

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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...
Confessions

Confessions

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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...
The Nicomachean Ethics

The Nicomachean Ethics

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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...
The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born

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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...