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  • The Fire Is upon Us
    "A great read." - Whoopi Goldberg, The View How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divide. On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement,...
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  • The Expanding Blaze
    A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical...
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  • The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook
    This witty and practical guide to Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting is no ordinary workbook. The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook not only takes the reader well beyond the basic ground rule of deliberate creation as laid out in Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, but does so in a uniquely entertaining manner. This is a workbook...
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  • The End of Ageing
    What if you could live not just longer, but healthier—and possibly forever? In his groundbreaking exploration of biotechnology, ethics, and the philosophy of very long lives, Thomas Ramge takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the possibilities and consequences of radical life extension. Drawing on cutting-edge research in molecular biology, genetics, and AI-driven medicine, The End of Ageing examines how...
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  • The Cradle of Humanity
    A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history—with...
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  • The Complete Treatises
    An expanded version of the translator's Anselm: The Basic Writings, The Complete Treatises incorporates new translations of works omitted from that volume (most notably, De grammatico) in addition to selected letters and prayers of philosophical interest. The only such collection translated by a single hand and rendered with attention to terminological consistency across the treatises, it is the ideal choice...
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  • The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II
    The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings. It features accurate and readable translations based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work. The centerpiece of this second volume is Spinoza's Theological-Political...
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  • Stoic Secrets
    A complete, beautifully crafted guide to ancient Stoicism and its living legacy, bridging classical wisdom with modern life lessons from philosophers, entrepreneurs, and creators. This comprehensive collector's edition presents the full landscape of Stoic philosophy across six thoughtfully curated sections: Exploring Stoicism, The Stoic Mindset, Stoicism 101, Wisdom from the Stoics, Stoicism in a Nutshell, and Famous Faces on the...
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  • Shamanic Soul Retrieval
    Using ancient healing techniques to restore purpose, joy, and fulfilment in life Teaches practical methods to heal from trauma and realise a balanced sense of self to overcome emotional, mental, and physical ailments. Gives practical techniques based on Core Shamanism, which finds its roots in the Indigenous traditions of the world such as the Australian Aborigines and the American First...
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  • Posthuman Feminism
    In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the struggle: these are very feminist times. But how do these and other movements relate to the contemporary posthuman condition? In this important new book, Rosi Braidotti examines the implications of the posthuman turn for feminist theory and...
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  • Philosophy of Physics
    This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Philosophy of Physics by Tim Maudlin presents a broad historical overview examining Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of space and time and traces how Galileo's conceptions...
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  • Philosophy before the Greeks
    There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what came before the Greeks was "before philosophy." In Philosophy before the Greeks, Marc Van De Mieroop, an acclaimed historian...
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  • Peaking
    We're sitting around a wood stove as she tells these stories. There's a gale force wind outside, forest heaving. Another woman in the group ran the New York marathon a few years ago. 'I wouldn't do Peaks,' she says. 'It's beyond a marathon, more like an ultra-marathon. You'll be on the bike all day, maybe eleven hours.' She'd run the...
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  • On Freedom
    From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—today. In this pathbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn't nearly enough. To be free, we must also be able to navigate life. People often need something like...
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  • Metamorphoses
    We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Metamorphoses by Emanuele Coccia argues...
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  • Kant Machine
    Rethinking the philosophy of Immanuel Kant in the age of artificial intelligence. What could be called an intelligent machine? Are machines capable of being moral? Does an algorithm for perpetual peace exist? In this groundbreaking new work, Yuk Hui considers how current debates on artificial intelligence echo historical philosophical discussions about the workings of the mind, with the philosophy of...
    By Yuk Hui
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  • Insatiable
    Insatiable exposes the damaging effects of greed in both public and private life, showing how the actions of a socially irresponsible 'greedocracy' are systematically undermining our democratic institutions. Ranging across politics, economic theory, the financial world, healthcare, the food industry, sport, religion and the creative arts, it demonstrates how deeply embedded the greed imperative is in human psychology. It suggests...
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  • Imagination and Invention
    A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon's fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources—from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty—Imagination and Invention...
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  • Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
    Husserl's Ideas is one of the most important works of twentieth-century philosophy, offering a detailed introduction to the phenomenological method, including the reduction, and outlining the overall scope of phenomenological philosophy. Husserl's explorations of the a priori structures of intentionality, consciousness, perceptual experience, evidence and rationality continue to challenge contemporary philosophy of mind. Dan Dahlstrom's accurate and faithful translation, written...
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  • Heretics!
    An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought. This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority—sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death—to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world. With masterful storytelling and...
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  • From Temperament to Character
    No attempt to practice Virtuous Leadership can succeed without a basic understanding of temperament and character, which, together, constitute human personality. The Virtuous Leadership approach to temperament affirms the legitimate diversity of our physiological and psychological makeup, and proposes that temperament, rightly understood, undergirds the efforts of all persons to flourish and achieve excellence. It recognizes that temperament does not...
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  • Foucault / Blanchot
    In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other's work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. The two texts present reflections on writing, language, and representation which question the status of the...
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  • Finding Inner Courage
    In this truly inspiring book, Mark Nepo offers us all an invitation to stand by the courage of our convictions in challenging times. Through the stories of ordinary people, political activists, artists, writers, and spiritual teachers from a variety of traditions, Mark Nepo shows how we too can discover our own inner courage. Finding Inner Courage is divided into three...
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  • Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
    Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Søren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism and have come to define his contribution to philosophy. Lowrie's translation, first published in 1941 and later revised, was the first in English, and...
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  • Eros the Bittersweet
    Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favourite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists,...
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  • David Lean
    David Lean's extraordinary films work philosophically through the modern reproductive and transportive technologies of sight and sound: through trains, planes, ships, and automobiles, from one perspective, and through the modern technology of the radio and gramophone, from another. Lean’s musical motifs are known worldwide: Lara’s theme in Zhivago; the Colonel Bogey March in Kwai; Estella’s motif in Great Expectations; Rosy’s...
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  • Classicism and Other Phobias
    A provocative case for why immortalising Greek and Roman culture as "classical" marginalises and devalues Black life Greek and Roman antiquity has been enshrined in disciplines and curricula at all levels of education, perpetuating what the historian of political thought J.G.A. Pocock has called "a conceptual dictatorship on the rest of the planet." Classicism and Other Phobias shows how the...
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  • Chinese Cosmopolitanism
    A provocative defence of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism, Shuchen Xiang argues that the Chinese cultural tradition was, from its formative beginnings and throughout its...
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  • Big Book of Crosswords 11
    A bumper collection of 300 quick crossword puzzles to test your word knowledge and have you reaching for the thesaurus. The puzzles are in a standard 13x13 grid size. How quickly can you solve these? You will find the solutions easily at the back of the book. Big Book of Crosswords 11 will keep your mind sharp and improve your...
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  • Begin Again, and Again, and Again
    A luminous illustrated meditation on transformation as practice—for anyone learning to live with life's cycles of breaking open and rebuilding. Illustrator and author Alessandra Olanow knows that life never unfolds as you think it will. After divorce, her mother's death, and the quiet unraveling of a carefully built life, she found herself awake at 3 a.m. with questions that wouldn't...
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  • Autism in Heels
    The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realise, that face is wearing lipstick. Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, Jennifer exposes...
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  • A Third University Is Possible
    A Third University Is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of California. Central to la paperson's discussion is...
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  • A Short History of German Philosophy
    The story of German philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hösle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science, from the Middle Ages to today. A Short History of German Philosophy addresses the...
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  • Ancient Greek Holidays
    Ancient Greek Holidays is a remarkable book that explores the ancient seasons and religious observance practices of the ancient Greeks. Mab Borden's meticulous research paints a vivid picture of the interconnectedness between mankind and the Gods. This book is invaluable for those interested in the religious traditions of ancient Greece. Ancient Greek Holidays is an immersive book delving deeply into...
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  • A Cure for Chaos
    From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightful graphic version of the stories and teachings of the important Chinese philosopher Mencius. C. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his graphic editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. In A Cure for Chaos, he uses his virtuosic artistic...
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  • 2027 Instant Happy Notes Boxed Calendar
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    Boost your bliss all year with this bestselling inspirational desk calendar! Get your daily dose of instant joy with this unique, full-colour boxed calendar! Inspire 365 days of happiness with hundreds of new reasons to smile and creative ways to spread cheer. Packed with fun illustrations, motivational quotes, simple suggestions, and mindful affirmations, this 2027 boxed calendar is the perfect...
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  • 2027 Everyday Calm Boxed Calendar
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    Inspire calm bliss with 365 reminders to relax, reflect, and reset! Embrace everyday calm with this inspirational daily desk calendar and reflect, refresh, and relax this year! Easy, practical, and inspiring, this day-by-day mindfulness calendar will invite tranquility and positivity into your life and help you find your path to daily wellness. Brimming with 365 days of stress-relieving techniques, simple...
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  • 15-Minute Gentle Yoga
    Fit exercise into your busy life with quick, gentle yoga programmes. Give this book 15 minutes of your day and let yoga reduce tension and give you a toned, more supple body. Do you wish you could practise yoga more often but can't find the time? This book is the answer—these four 15-minute programmes for beginners offer the flexibility and...
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  • 100 Ways to Motivate Others, Third Edition
    "Steve Chandler's coaching has had a tremendous impact in my life. He was vital to my personal transformation from a man of ideas and dreams to a person of action and reality." -Radames Soto, former managing director, The Wall Street Journal The world of leadership has changed dramatically since 100 Ways to Motivate Others was written. Now, Chandler and Richardson...
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  • The Fifth Season
    As the years go by, the question for each of us becomes more and more real: What does it mean to age? Despite the limitations that come as the body wears down, Mark Nepo believes that there are many gifts to inhabit by aging. So much is gained and so much is shed along the way. As Mark began to...
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  • The Fear Opportunity
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    Increase your confidence, feel less anxious and get more out of life by taking small steps outside your comfort zone. In The Fear Opportunity, Olympic Gold medallist Victoria Pendleton shows just how much you stand to gain by reframing your relationship with fear. This clear and practical book sets out how doing small, everyday things that scare you is the...
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  • I Hope So
    In uncertain times, hope isn't just a feeling—it's a powerful, science-backed tool for resilience and transformation. In I Hope So, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, award-winning author of Stress Wisely and Calm Within the Storm, shows readers how to use the power of neuroscience to access a well of hope that already exists within. An acclaimed behavioural psychologist and resiliency expert, Dr....
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  • How To Try Again
    The personal development book for people that don't have time for personal development. Bailed on your routine? Struggling to build a habit? Tired of feeling stuck? Let's start with the good news: despite what your brain might tell you, you are not a failure. You are a human who has failed at something. Life is messy, unexpected, and can surprise...
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  • Dance of Oneness
    Most of us live in our heads and miss out on experiencing our bodies as a portal to the present moment and true happiness. In this guide, Banafsheh Sayyad offers a transformative healing path to reconnect with yourself as a being of love, ground your spirituality in your body, and embrace ease, joy, and freedom. This work isn't about professional...
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  • Women, Resistance and Revolution
    In this classic text, Sheila Rowbotham explores four centuries of feminist struggle and revolutionary politics. She shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. First published in 1972, Women, Resistance and Revolution is a major statement of second-wave feminism on the imperative for revolution within the revolution. It is also a rich...
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  • To Exist as a Problem
    In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?” In this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialised as a problem. Zalloua argues that today’s anti-Blackness is not a...
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  • Manifest Like a Motherf*cker
    Manifest your intentions to create your best life with this no-BS guide of insight-revealing worksheets and inspiring writing exercises. The power of manifestation and positive intention-setting has been proven time and again—your thoughts become your actions and your actions become your destiny. Manifest Like a Motherf*cker is the perfect beginner-friendly way to start turning your dreams into reality today. This...
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  • Let's (Not) Talk About (Transgender) Sex
    For decades, trans studies and queer theory have treated the trans body as a theoretical construct – a site for identity, dysphoria, and gender politics – leaving erotic realities largely unexamined. Desire, pleasure, and real sex have been pushed to the margins, rendered almost unspeakable. This book challenges that silence. It asks why sexuality – once a privileged site of...
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  • Justice and Islamic Law
    What do you do when divine law and the justice demanded by your conscience clash? Muslims have wrestled with this problem since the earliest caliphates. The mazalim courts, dating back to the eighth century, were the answer: courts where any subject could appeal directly to an Islamic ruler regarding any matter of justice. Mazalim courts, which were not bound by...
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    (Designing) Beyond the Modern
    (Designing) Beyond the Modern is the second volume in a trilogy by Eduardo Staszowski and Virginia Tassinari, following Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (2020). This book is a provocation: how can we begin to move beyond the modern when so much of how we think and make remains entangled in its logic? Among the forces that have both...
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  • Be Confident
    Be Confident in 100 Days Confidence is an inside job, and the root of everyone's confidence issues lies in the mind. This book has been designed to help you deal with all the manifestations of low self-esteem within one hundred days, which means that you could have a brand-new life in three months' time. Imagine that! You could spend the...
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  • A Theory of Happiness
    Over 50,000 copies sold What does real happiness look like? How can we find true purpose, meaning and connection in our finite time on Earth? 105-year-old Professor Kim reveals key aspects of ancient Korean philosophy and shares stories from over a century of living to help us live better. Showing us how to lean into the world with more softness,...
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  • You and Your Profile
    More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we are perceived by a broader public. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our self-presentation accordingly. Profile-based identity is evident everywhere from pop culture to politics, marketing to morality. But all too often critics...
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  • Wisdom of the Stoics Boxed Set (Deluxe Hardbound Edition), The
    Stoic teachings for personal growth and fulfilment. The Wisdom of the Stoics Boxed Set includes Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and How to Live- The Enchiridion and Discourses by Epictetus. These works encapsulate Stoic philosophy, offering timeless wisdom on leading a virtuous and fulfilling life. Seneca provides practical advice on resilience, Marcus Aurelius offers reflections...
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  • Wild Thought
    Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Lévi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned from linguistics and from sociology and ethnology, Lévi-Strauss elaborated his theory of structural unity in culture and became the preeminent representative of structural anthropology. La Pensée...
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  • Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree
    'My favourite book of the year' - Kate Humble, Radio Times 'This is a book for literary connoisseurs, fact-lovers and environmentalists. In short, it is a book about trees and people, for everyone.' - BBC Countryfile 'Eclectic, brilliant and beautifully written, David Haskell reboots our aromatic memory reminding us of how our lives are intertwined with the wonder of trees....
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  • Thinking With—Jean-Luc Nancy
    A multifaceted engagement with the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy. This book continues the passionate conversation that Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was engaged in throughout his life with philosophers and artists from all over the world. The contributors take up Nancy’s philosophical question of truth as a praxis of a “with”—understanding truth without any given measure or comparison as an articulation of...
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  • The Yoga of Time Travel
    Time travel is not just science fiction; it may actually be possible. Wolf draws on yoga and quantum physics to show that time is a flexible projection of mind. Cheating time, he says, is an ancient metaphysical idea from the Vedas having to do with moving through meditation to a place where time stands still. When reading The Yoga of...
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  • The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
    Benjamin's famous Work of Art essay sets out his boldest thoughts on media and on culture in general—in their most realised form—while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay, the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This...
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  • The Tacit Dimension
    “I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,” writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. The Tacit Dimension argues that tacit knowledge—tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments—is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. Back in print for a...
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  • The Responsibility Of Intellectuals
    In one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals' relative privilege imbues them with greater responsibility—one that was to be the guiding principle of his intellectual life. "Chomsky is a global phenomenon... He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet." - The New York Times Book Review...
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  • The Mindful Microdosing Journal
    The first microdosing guidebook and journal by an award-winning mindfulness author and teacher that supports the entire process of preparation, actively microdosing, and integration through the lens of mindfulness. This book is for those who have never microdosed and seasoned microdosers alike; for those microdosing on their own and those microdosing with a microdosing coach. It can be used by...
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  • The Little Book of Zen
    Updated, revised, with a new cover, new trim size, and illustrations throughout, the national bestseller The Little Zen Companion, with 516,000 copies in print, is repackaged for a new generation of seekers as The Little Book of Zen. A perfect gift and book of discovery, its maverick spirit celebrates ideas drawn from Zen Buddhism that have tremendous currency today: mindfulness,...
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  • The Last Utopia
    Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to centre stage and asks what it reveals about...
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  • The Conscious Creative
    An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul. It can be difficult to live according to our values in a complicated world. At a time when capitalism seems most unforgiving but the need for paying work remains high, it is important to learn how we can...
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  • The Best of Friedrich Nietzsche
    A bold invitation to question everything we believe about truth, morality, and human potential, this deluxe hardbound edition brings together two revolutionary works that shaped modern thought and continue to inspire every reader who dares to think freely. The Best of Friedrich Nietzsche unites two of the philosopher's most transformative works: Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. In...
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  • Synchronicity
    "If you are looking for answers to the profound enigma of the meaning and nature of meaningful coincidences in your own life, answers that bring psychological insight and spiritual understanding, then you have come to the right place. Professor Surprise has given us the finest book of its kind." - Allan Combs, coauthor Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth...
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  • Such Stuff as Dreams
    Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers. Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselves. Informed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can...
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  • Strangers to Ourselves
    Know thyself, a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Welcome to our Philosophy & Psychology section, where profound questions meet insightful answers. If you’re curious about the nature of existence, the workings of the mind, or the foundations of human behavior, this collection offers a wide range of books to deepen your understanding.

Discover classic works from great philosophers, contemporary explorations of ethics, logic, and metaphysics, and engaging texts that bridge philosophy with modern psychology. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical underpinnings of human thought or the psychological theories that explain why we think, feel, and act the way we do, there’s something here for every inquiring mind.

From thought-provoking essays and groundbreaking studies to accessible introductions and comprehensive guides, our Philosophy & Psychology books invite you to explore new ideas and perspectives. Dive in and start your journey of self-discovery and reflection today.