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Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt: A Philosophical Dialogue
Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who...
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Author: Kathryn Schulz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that...
The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics
Author: Boris Starling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and...
The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics
Author: Boris Starling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've...
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
Author: David M. Pena-Guzman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming. Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What...
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Author: Sebastian JungerFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 180g, 176 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and...
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 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...
Rocks Of Ages
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Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
Author: Pope Francis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 In this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we...
Right and Wrong
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Take Back Your Life: A 40-Day Interactive Journey to Thinking Right So You Can Live Right
Author: Levi Lusko Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Every person has a mission and a God-given potential to impact the world, whether they recognize it or not. But the...
A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics: From Plato to Winnie the Pooh
Author: James M. Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out...
The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism - A Quest for Purpose in the Modern World
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What Would Gen-Z Do?: Everything You Don't Know About Gen-Z but Should
Author: John Schlimm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When interacting with Gen-Zers, whether you be their parent, teacher, coach, relative, neighbor, or anything in between, the generational divide can...
On Purpose
Author: Michael Ruse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present Can we live...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous...
The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety
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Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Benjamin J. Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment...
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Author: Amanda Montell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology...
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...
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
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Author: Larissa MacFarquhar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people...
Net Abide Journal
Author: Taylor University Center for Scripture Engagement Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Do you yearn for life-giving, intimate communion with God The Abide Bible Journals are designed to...
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...
Man is the Measure
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Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom,...
Friendship & Other Essays
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Number of Pages: 144
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most well-known American nature writers, essayists and poets.
Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West
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The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
Author: Baltasar Gracian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin Classics Written...
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
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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...
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....
Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
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Author: Jean-Paul Sartrebinding: SoftbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1988Condition: book: Very good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Yellowed, markings: No markingsIn 'Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr', Jean-Paul Sartre explores the life...
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought
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Author: Sanford Schwartzbinding: SoftbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1988Condition: book: Very good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the interplay between modernist poets Ezra Pound and...
The Life of the Mind (Two-Volume Set)
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Author: Hannah Arendtbinding: HardbackPublished: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, NY, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThe Life of the Mind is a profound exploration of thought itself,...
The I Ching: The Sacred Books of China
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Author: James Leggebinding: SoftbackPublished: Dover Publications Inc., 1963Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsThe I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest...
I Ching or Book of Changes
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Author: C.G. Jungbinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge, 1975 reprintCondition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThe I Ching, or Book of Changes, is a classic of Chinese divination...
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...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...
Wolfish: The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for...
The Imagination Muscle
'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone -...
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER READ OF 2024'Enthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON'A must-read.' - STEPHEN FRY'Spectacular. Changed my perspective on the whole living world.' - CHRIS VAN...
States of Mind: Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness - An
The meaning of consciousness, the mechanics of the mind and otherworldly transition or disrupted states - such as trance, sleep-walking, amnesia and locked-in syndrome - are perennially fascinating issues. The...
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do NextWhat part of your beautiful self were you taught to...
On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd
'Axel Linden is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer'Endearing and liberating.' Idler Magazine'A sublime little book.' Cotswold Life_______Why do we keep...
Wolfish: The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 FOR FINANCIAL TIMES, TIME, VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUMPUS, BUSTLE, READER'S DIGEST and moreBoth vilified and venerated, wolves abound through cultural folklore and literature....
Keep It Together: philosophy for everyday emergencies
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Twelve great thinkers guide you calmly through life's difficult times, and help you to keep it together, even when everything seems to be falling apart. Whether you are dealing with...
The Great Philosophers: Descartes
'The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.' Descartes 'It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing...