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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 History of Philosophy
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...
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask
Author: Peter Jones (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
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...
The Republic
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...
On the Genealogy of Morals
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...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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...
Ethics
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...
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...
Right and Wrong: How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices and build a better society
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?...
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...
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...
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...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
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...
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',...
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...
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...
Discourse on Method and the Meditations
Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method...
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...
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 Politics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian
Author: Diogenes of Sinope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in...
Republic
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe 'We set about founding the best city we could,...
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Is there still anything to live for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love and caring for one's...
A Short History of Decay
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers A Short History of Decay (1949)...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our...
Dialogues and Letters
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks...
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...
The Coffin Confessor
Author: William Edgar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the...
The Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all...
Islam: The Essentials
Author: Tariq Ramadan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert. The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio
Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through...
Beyond Happiness: How to find lasting meaning and joy in all that you have
Author: Anthony Seldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 As Britain's best-known headmaster, Sir Anthony famously introduced happiness, or well-being, lessons at his school, Wellington College. In 2011,...
Pensees
Author: Blaise Pascal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...
Personal Writings
Author: Ignatius Of Loyola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and...
The News: A User's Manual
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The...
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...
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From the author of multi-million bestseller, The God Delusion, an exciting, accessible argument for atheism, written for...
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...
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...