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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Author: Robert M. Pirsig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'A brilliant and original book... Everybody should read it' Guardian An odyssey into life's challenging philosophical questions during...
Mythologies
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 Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
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?...
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...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 254 These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself...
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...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
Meditations
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 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...
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,...
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...
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 Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
Author: Roman Krznaric Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 One of Britain's most popular public philosophers introduces the six ways we can drastically change the way we think...
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition
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...
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...
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...
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain
Author: Stanislas Dehaene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An illuminating dive into the latest science of how we learn - and how we do it better than...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Author: Dr John Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation- how it came to be written, how its contents were...
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...
The Foucault Reader
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An introduction to the work of Michel Foucault, including detailed excerpts from all of his major works The Foucault...
The Trouble With Being Born
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not...
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...
Committed Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful...
Confessions
Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Penguin Classics relaunch The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years...
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...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
Author: Priya Satia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram...
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...
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...
Unlocking the Bible
Author: David Pawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1376 A unique overview of both the Old and New Testaments, from a widely respected evangelical speaker and writer. Unlocking...
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...
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
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...
The Consolations of Philosophy
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...