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How To Be a Stoic

How To Be a Stoic

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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...
Meditations

Meditations

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Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...
The History of Philosophy

The History of Philosophy

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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...
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

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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 Consolations of Philosophy

The Consolations of Philosophy

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Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its...
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

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Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for...
On the Genealogy of Morals

On the Genealogy of Morals

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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

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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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

Ethics

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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...
The Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita

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Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...
Selected Writings

Selected Writings

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Author: Thomas Aquinas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984

Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984

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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...
Treatise on Toleration

Treatise on Toleration

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Author: Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious belief, Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration was written...
The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata

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Author: John D. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody...
On Living and Dying Well

On Living and Dying Well

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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...
A History of Judaism

A History of Judaism

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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...
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition

The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live

Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live

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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...
Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Pure Reason

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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...
The Lost Art of Scripture

The Lost Art of Scripture

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Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 An urgent review of the use and abuse of holy texts in today's world - and a call for...
Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

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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...
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

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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...
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

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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...
A History of God

A History of God

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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 Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism

The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism

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Author: Alan Unterman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical tradition. 'The...
The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying

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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...
Buddhist Scriptures

Buddhist Scriptures

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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....
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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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',...
City of God

City of God

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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...
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.

God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.

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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...
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon: The beautifully illustrated Sunday Times bestseller about friendship and hope

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon: The beautifully illustrated Sunday Times bestseller about friendship and hope

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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...
The Celestial Hunter

The Celestial Hunter

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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...
Selected Writings

Selected Writings

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Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...
Early Greek Philosophy

Early Greek Philosophy

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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

Discourse on Method and the Meditations

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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 Nicomachean Ethics

The Nicomachean Ethics

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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...
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

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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 Book of Master Mo

The Book of Master Mo

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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...
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness

The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness

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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...
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

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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...
Mythologies

Mythologies

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Author: Roland Barthes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Beautiful reissue of this unique classic collection, featuring a newly translated essay not included in previous collections 'Barthes' purpose...
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian

The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian

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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

Republic

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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

How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest

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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

A Short History of Decay

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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 Book of Chuang Tzu

The Book of Chuang Tzu

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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...
A Confession and Other Religious Writings

A Confession and Other Religious Writings

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...