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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 Politics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Last Days of Socrates
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedro 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone- whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...
The Upanishads
Author: Juan Mascaro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets,...
The Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In The Metaphysics, Aristotle laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. Aristotle was always passionately...
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?...
Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make...
The Classical School: The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives
Author: Callum Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Williams has chosen an engaging cast of characters; his collection is full of well-lived lives and grisly endings ......
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...
A Prayer for Every Occasion
Author: Carrie Marrs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Are you ever at a loss for words during prayer God encourages us to approach Him with confidence, yet often we...
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...
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...
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...
The Conference of the Birds
Author: Farid Attar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all...
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...
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...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio
Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through...
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...
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 Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Author: Mariana Mazzucato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Value of Everything will reignite a long-needed debate about the kind of world we really want to live...
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...
Ka
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures. In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into...
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...
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
Author: Jonathan Aldred Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A scathing examination of how, by making market efficiency our moral standard, we've come to believe that bad is...
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
Author: John Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?' Drawing...
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our...
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...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest...
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 Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
Author: Niall Kishtainy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds...
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two
Author: Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 372 Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for...
A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty...
The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book
Author: Simon Loveday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable...
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...
Utopia
Author: Thomas More Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful...
Seven Types of Atheism
Author: John Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by...
Islam: The Essentials
Author: Tariq Ramadan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert. The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly...
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
Author: Anthony Gottlieb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The definitive introduction to early Western philosophy, now fully revised and updated. Already a classic, this landmark account of...
The Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all...