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Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor...

Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 With his trademark warmth and humour, His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us how to find happiness despite the challenges...

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...

Author: Jonathan Lichtenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son....

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Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can...

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...

Author: Shannon Bream Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The women of the Bible lived timeless stories-by examining them, we can understand what...

Author: Selina O'Grady Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Christianity is tolerant, Islam is not. Islam is an inherently violent, ossified religion which can never come to terms with the...

Author: N. t. Wright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Today's leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and acclaimed author N. T. Wright returns with a collection of pastoral...

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...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael...

Author: Martin Hagglund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'It is always lucid, and is at its heart remarkably simple. You could extract its essence and offer it...

Author: Catherine McCormack Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to...

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...

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...

Author: Naagaarjuna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 334 This is not a standard translation of "Mulamadhyamakakarika." Translator Nishijima Roshi believes that the original translation from Chinese into Sanskrit...

Author: Hal Elrod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Following on from where the extraordinary international bestseller The Miracle Morning left off, The Miracle Equation shares the secret to unlocking...

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...

Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from...

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 254 These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself...

Author: Brad S Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very...

Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No...

Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...

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...

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...

Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...

Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for...

Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...

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...

Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most...

Author: Hellfried Krusche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Yoga philosophy and Freud's revolutionary approach to psychology could not have been developed in more different times, places, or...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the...

Author: Daniel Jutte (Jutte) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed...

Author: John D. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody...

Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories...

Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New translation for Penguin Classics Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in...

Author: Hugh Mackay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 How can you be sure you're doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong?...

Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...

Author: John Rapley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A comprehensive examination of the continually changing world of money, economic theory, and how we got things so wrong...

Author: Thomas Aquinas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied...

Author: Margaret Starbird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Magdalene's Lost Legacy, author Margaret Starbird decodes the symbolic numbers embedded in the original Greek phrases of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...