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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...
The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The most poignant and heartwarming memoir of the year'
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Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 "If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting." Daily Mail "This charming book weaves hedgehogs into...
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving
Britain's health service is dying. Gavin Francis shows us why we should fight for it. Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS....
The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The most poignant and heartwarming memoir of the year'
Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 "If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting." Daily Mail "This charming book weaves hedgehogs into...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
Author: Jeremy Vine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species. What makes us human? From...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
Author: Jeremy Vine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species. What makes us human? From...
Stilte: The Dutch Art of Quietude
Author: Mirjam van der Vegt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 We long for moments we can slow down and be still. Our days are often filled with too much...
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...
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...
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...
All In: How we build a country that works
'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows how...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
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...
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science
Author: Sissela Bok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Lying, a brilliant exploration of happiness set in the context of the world's great philosophers, leaders,...
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...
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One
Author: Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for...
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...
On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better
Author: Kirsty Sedgman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Manners, order and respect... these are all ideals we subscribe to. In opposedpositions, we ought to be able to 'agree to...
For the Good of the World: Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now
Author: A. C. Grayling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that...
The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World
Author: Fernanda Pirie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those...
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
Author: David Crystal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation...
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...
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 Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him'...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania?...
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...
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
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Author: Jacob McHangama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." --P.J. O'Rourke Hailed as...
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Author: Noga Arikha Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our...
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...
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
Author: Peter Ho Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies's achingly honest,...
Friendship & Other Essays
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 144
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most well-known American nature writers, essayists and poets.
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 God Delusion
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Author: Richard Dawkins
Format: Paperback
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The Book of Five Rings
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Author: Miyamoto Musashi
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 96
Considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.
The Communist Manifesto
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...
Meditations on First Philosophy & Other Metaphysical Writings
Author: Rene Descartes
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Meditations is considered the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy.
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Way of the Samurai
Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...
The Art of Rhetoric
Author: Aristotle Format: Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384Ð322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was a critical skill...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121Ð180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...
The Art of War
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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
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 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...
Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real
Author: Mariana Atencio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this much-needed book, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of...
Chasing Wisdom: The Lifelong Pursuit of Living Well
Author: Daniel Grothe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Teaching pastor at the influential New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Daniel Grothe explains the Bible's blueprint for becoming the...
Healthy Me, Healthy Us: Your Relationships Are Only as Strong as You Are
Author: Les Parrott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 #1 New York Times bestselling authors and renowned psychologists Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott share the single most import secret to...
The Jesus Bible Journal, Acts, NIV, Paperback, Comfort Print
Author: Passion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Encounter Jesus, Our Continued Mission, in the book of Acts. Chronicle your own journey of faith as you discover Jesus...
Becoming Enlightened
Author: Dalai Lama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From His Holiness the Dalai Lama, an inspiring guide to ending the cycle of suffering in our lives In...