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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy,...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....
Starting with Rousseau
Author: James Delaney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This is a new introduction to Rousseau, guiding the student through the key concepts of his work by examining...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History
Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
30-Second Religion: The 50 most thought-provoking religious beliefs, each explained in half a minute
Author: Russell Re Manning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Whether you wish to understand the key differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, to glimpse the many gods of...
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus
Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for...
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...
Jesus Calling, Pink Leathersoft, with Scripture references: Enjoying Peace in His Presence
Author: Sarah Young Format: Leather / fine binding Number of Pages: 400 Experience a deeper relationship with Jesus as you savor the presence of the One who understands you perfectly...
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...
The Myth of Sisyphus
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The Myth of Sisyphus is one of the most profound philosophical statements written this century. It is a discussion...
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...
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...
NKJV, Ancient-Modern Bible, Leathersoft, Brown, Comfort Print: One faith. Handed down. For all the saints.
Author: Thomas Nelson Format: Leather / fine binding Number of Pages: 1696 Many things have changed in the last two-thousand years. The good news of Jesus Christ isn't one of...
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...
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 Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book
Author: Simon Loveday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable...
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...
Russian Thinkers
Author: Isaiah Berlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the...
The Art of Rhetoric
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an...
The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father
Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A simple peasant seeks spiritual fulfilment in this apparently artless tale of popular piety. 'Here, see my belongings- a...
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...
The Talmud: A Selection
Author: Norman Solomon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...
The Dhammapada
Author: Valerie Roebuck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A new translation by Valerie Roebuck of this seminal work of Buddhist literature One of the best-known and best-loved...
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...
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 The definitive one-volume history of Christianity by one of the world's leading historians of religion Christianity, one of the...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest...
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...
A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty...
Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus
Author: Thomas Habinek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero...
Ka
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures. In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into...
Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife in Tibet, Sikkin and Bhu
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Author: Margaret D. Williams
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 240
Memoirs portraying life in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan in the 1930s.
The Joyous Science
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The...
Essays and Aphorisms
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by...
Spiritual Verses
Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical?...
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The essential guide to surviving modern life - a crash course in emotional maturity from the bestselling author...
Utilitarianism and Other Essays
Author: Jeremy Bentham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of...
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...
Life in His Presence: A Jesus Calling Guided Journal
Author: Sarah Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Sarah Young's Jesus Calling has drawn millions of people around the world closer to Jesus. Now Life in His Presence calls...
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...
Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
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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...
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of...
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...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Author: Georg Hegel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about...
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
Author: Alan Ryan (Princeton University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to...
Crimes of the Father
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. A timely, courageous and powerful novel about...