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The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
The author of How to Be a Stoic asks what might be philosophy's ultimate question: can we learn to be better people? Is good character something that can be taught?...
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying...
Stoic Foundations: The Cornerstone Works of Stoicism
Stoicism is a philosophy, a worldview, and a transformational practice. Throughout the centuries everyone from kings and presidents to Silicone Valley entrepreneurs have drawn inspiration and wisdom from Stoicism. The...
The Happiness Hypothesis: Ten Ways to Find Happiness and Meaning in Life
An uplifting exploration of ancient wisdom for our modern lives and how it can make us happier Every culture hands wisdom down through generations. What doesn't kill you makes you...
Event: Philosophy in Transit
Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophy What is really happening when something...
Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts explores the human quest for psychological security 'A revelatory classic' Maria Popova 'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak Chopra What we have...
The Way of Zen
A definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism from pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts 'The perfect guide for a course correction in life' Deepak Chopra If we open our eyes and see...
This is It: Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
Six revolutionary essays on spiritual experience from pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts 'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak Chopra The spiritual is not to be separated from...
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
A searching account of the ethics and aesthetics of the home- the place that is most important in determining human happiness A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these...
Animal Liberation Now
The landmark book that opened the world's eyes to the suffering of animals, fully rewritten and entirely updated Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of...
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Derren explores the history and philosophy of happiness and explains why everything is fine, more or less...! The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight....
The End of History and the Last Man
A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked...
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
A warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyle WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'ID ES The...
Love's Work
An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality Gillian...
On Violence
Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still...
And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world
Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, uses her trademark wit and expertise to equip readers with a positive roadmap for a kinder, brighter world and better mental health Bestselling author...
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of...
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
From the bestselling philosopher, a gripping history of science, thought, life on earth and the human mind - and what we might know in the future In very recent times...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story...
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy
'Weaves together the biographies and the developing thought of the four philosophers with great bravura and wit' (Sunday Telegraph) The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to...
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
This landmark scientific investigation by one of the world's leading psychologists reveals empathy to be our most dangerous emotion In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is...
The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life
Professor Lou Marinoff's first book drew on the wisdom of the great philosophers to solve our everyday problems, launching a movement that restored philosophy to what it once was: useful...
Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis
This text analyzes the conjunction between the environmental crisis, the globalization of capitalism and the disintegration of the culture of modernity. It explains the paradox of growing concern for the...
Foucault (Fontana Modern Masters)
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By attempting a highly original merger of philosophy and history, Michel Foucault set out to revitalize philosophical reflection through several provocative analyses of the Western past. At the time of...
So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions
From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more...
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the...
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal
'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review _________________________________________________________________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that...
Let's Talk About Hard Things: death, sex, money, and other difficult conversations
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Death. Sex. Money. Tricky subjects we're taught to avoid in polite conversation. Here, the host of a hit podcast reveals how to talk about difficult things, and why it might...
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide
Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? Empiricist philosophers accept a 'common-sense' view of the phenomena we observe and yet conclude...
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories
'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner 'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA...
Ren: The Ancient Chinese Art of Finding Peace and Fulfilment
A beautiful look at the Ancient Chinese philosophy of Ren and how it can help us with our hectic modern lives. The Chinese character for Ren ? combines the word...
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us about Finding Fulfillment
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Life and its meaning is a mystery almost impossible to solve, but what can the leading theories teach us about the search for purpose? For most of us, the major...
All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret
NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom' JOSEPH O'CONNOR For almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been crafting words in a bid to...
The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy
'A person who does not think about life is like a stranger mapless in a foreign land.' But in the twenty first century, what meaning can we give to our...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India
'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show us...
Why Marx Was Right
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On Ugliness
Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty and we often define the first in order to understand the...
Technology is Not the Problem
We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back...
Ethics for Life: Making Sense of the Morals of Everyday Living
We all face questions on an almost daily basis related to truth and post-truth, particularly in the political sphere, terrorism, globalization, immigration and asylum, social responsibility, media and social-media ethics,...
Strange, Familiar and Forgotten: Anatomy of Consciousness
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Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing A Guardian Book...
The Road Less Travelled: Classic Editions
The ten million copy New York Times bestselling personal development classic. 'Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.' A timeless classic in personal development,...
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil
A fascinating exploration of how, under certain circumstances, the human character can be transformed from good to evil, now in paperback In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected...
If You Should Fail: Why Success Eludes Us and Why It Doesn't Matter
To fail is human. Get used to it . . . Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If...
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order...
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as...