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The Prose Edda
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 First time in Penguin Classics for Scandinavia's best known work of literature and the principal source for knowledge about...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984
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...
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Tough times don't last. Tough people do. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and...
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...
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now
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...
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo
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
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
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
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...
Judas and Jesus: Two Faces of a Single Revelation
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...
Lighting the Path: The Dalai Lama teaches on wisdom and compassion
Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this accessible and important follow up to The Art of Happiness His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us how...
Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
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
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
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
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...
Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
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...
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Author: Graeme Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A timely and essential rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants Based on Graeme Wood's unprecedented...
A Saint a Day: 365 True Stories of Faith and Heroism
Author: Meredith Hinds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Teach your child to walk in faith, act justly, and lead with kindness and humility with this 365-day devotional for kids....
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
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
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 Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)
Author: Simon Schama, CBE Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Unforgettable...a delicious cacophony of conversations and clamorous arguments echoing across history' Daily Telegraph The landmark history of a...
City of God
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...
A History of God
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
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
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...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
Zen Masters of Japan: The Second Step East
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 Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
Author: Jonathan Phillips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The riveting and definitive biography of the Islamic world's most famous military hero 'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One...
The Book of Chuang Tzu
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...
The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels
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
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
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
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...
The Usborne Children's Bible
Author: Heather Amery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 This is a new miniature edition of the Children's Bible, which will be treasured and enjoyed by children and adults of...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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
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
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
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 Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
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
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
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
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
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
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...
The Dharma of the Princess Bride: What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us about Buddhism and Relationships
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Author: Ethan Nichtern Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism--through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
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...
An Emotion Of Great Delight
Author: Tahereh Mafi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 From bestselling author of the Shatter Me series and the National Book Award-nominated A Very Large Expanse of Sea,...
The Book of Master Mo
Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...