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The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)
Author: W.G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric...
The Case for God: What religion really means
Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An essential book for our times- a thoughtful, cultured response to Richard Dawkins There is widespread confusion about the...
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Author: Christopher de Bellaigue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A revelatory history that uncovers the modern foundations of the Islamic world. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE...
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
Author: Sarah Bakewell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist How to get...
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...
Silence: In the Age of Noise
Author: Erling Kagge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the world....
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Author: Sarah Bakewell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 From the bestselling author of How to Live, an enthralling and original new book about a group of young...
The Practice
Author: Seth Godin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 For any artist, entrepreneur, or visionary who feels stuck, Seth Godin has a simple answer- commit to the practice....
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...
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Clare Carlisle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Engrossing ... Carlisle has pulled off the feat of writing a truly Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard' (Julian Baggini, Financial...
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 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...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...
The Art of Flight
Author: Fredrik Sjoeberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
Hinduism: with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen
Author: K. M. Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Hinduism provides an invaluable introduction to its schools of thought and the very different ways in which it...
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...
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...
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue?...
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...
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...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future...
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Michael Sandel's Justice- What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel 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 The third and...
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...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Author: Jordan B. Peterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE GLOBAL NON-FICTION PHENOMENON OF 2018 - now in paperback Jordan Peterson has become one of the world's...
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon: The beautifully illustrated Sunday Times bestseller about friendship and hope
Author: James Norbury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The charming, illustrated story of two friends, who travel through the seasons sharing the lessons they learn on their way; the...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness
Author: John Sellars Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Epicureanism offers the perfect cure for our anxious age. What can it teach us about the art of happiness? What do...
How To Be a Stoic
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...
The Decay of Lying
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive...
Praise of Folly
Author: Desiderius Erasmus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval...
Discourses and Selected Writings
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...
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...
Tao Te Ching
Author: Lao Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that...
The Koran
Author: Mr N J Dawood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Koran, in a masterful, fully revised translation The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit...
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...
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...
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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...
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
Author: Daniel Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the acclaimed author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college...
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...
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: Classic Editions
Author: Dr Deepak Chopra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The worldwide bestseller that reveals the alternative to growing old and the key to lasting health. 'The poet-prophet...