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  • I Know I Should Exercise, But...
    'The most insightful guide to getting moving I've ever read.' Kelly McGonigal, author of The Joy of Movement Break down the common everyday mental blocks to moving your body, and turn your mind from an adversary into an ally in the quest to feel better in your body. "I know I should move my body more, but... I'm on my...
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  • Ignorance and Bliss
    Aristotle claimed that 'all human beings want to know'. Yet we also want not to know. Centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow preposterous prophets; irrational rumours trigger fanatical acts; and magical thinking crowds out common sense and expertise. Where does this will to ignorance originate, and how does it shape our lives today? Acclaimed essayist and historian of...
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  • How to Change Your Body
    How to Change Your Body includes a comprehensive body-trusting toolkit and the MAIA Scale, which stands for Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness. The book provides an overview of various attentional strategies, respiratory work, Reiki, sensory awareness, and other somatic practices. It features rigorous interviews with researchers from around the world. A compelling personal narrative is woven throughout, with reflections on...
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  • Hello Gorgeous
    Hello Gorgeous is a powerful collection of straight-talking advice and striking images to keep you motivated every day. Flip with ease through this empowering and gorgeously designed book—featuring the stunning artwork of The Oliver Gal Artist Co.—to find inspirational quotes and stories from outstanding women whenever you need a cheerleader by your side. You just got promoted and you're doubting...
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  • Healing the Five Wounds of the Heart
    In this groundbreaking book, medical doctor and energy healer Dr. Marie Mbouni shows us how to identify the five wounds of the heart, recover from the trauma they create, and live a full, wholehearted life. Marie Mbouni grew up in Cameroon, Africa, and always felt a calling to be a healer. "My journey," writes Marie, "began with Western medicine, and...
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  • Happiness and Survival
    The message of Happiness and Survival is simple: for the survival of our species and personal happiness, everybody needs to go to a psychotherapist. Bob Gebelein shares his journey through the lies of the past to a new civilization, where he can view the academic establishment with some perspective. His solution for human survival is being blocked by an academic...
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  • Frontline Midwife
    ‘Extraordinary, profoundly moving, all-consuming . . . I haven't stopped thinking about Frontline Midwife since I finished reading it’ Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks 'The heart-wrenching tale of one midwife’s quest to help others – and make peace with herself'Leah Hazard, author of Hard Pushed ‘Brutally powerful . . . Totally absorbing’ Independent This is a story of...
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  • Forest Bathing
    Reap the mental and physical benefits of forest bathing with this essential toolkit, complete with 50 beautifully designed nature-connection exercise cards and a 64-page guidebook. This kit provides an uplifting, screen-free introduction to Forest Bathing with simple and easy-to-follow exercise prompts beautifully and accessibly presented on individual cards. In the accompanying book, explore the origins, science, and benefits of this...
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  • Foolosophy? Think Again, Sophie
    We all philosophize at times. What do we do when we philosophize? We think in a rather concentrated, deep sort of way. In so doing, we do not call ourselves philosophers; it would be rather pretentious of us if we did. Philosophers are those—generally in university departments of philosophy—who think, and ask questions, about what reality is made of, what...
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  • First Aid for Broken Hearts Tarot
    First Aid for Broken Hearts Tarot is a useful tool and consolation for those grappling with the shattered fragments of a broken heart and seeking immediate respite and healing. Being heartbroken is a perplexing experience, often leaving us with limited mental and intellectual resources to navigate the grief. Much like reaching for a first aid kit to address physical wounds...
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  • Find Your Mantra Journal
    Find Your Mantra Journal is a beautifully designed tool to help you transform your life through the power of positive affirmations. Mantras—positive phrases repeated during meditation to ignite optimism in daily life—are tools to help you construct your perfect "mind palace" and share your light with the people you cherish. Having a personal mantra can put you in the right...
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  • Find Your Mantra
    Be mindful and present in your daily life with these 180 uplifting messages, organised by theme. Founder of MantraBand Aysel Gunar provides an inspiring introduction on the importance of positive, meaningful mantras in your life. Whether your focus is peace, love, happiness, strength, or your journey—you'll find the perfect mantra for every day of your life. Some of the positive...
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  • Find Your Calm
    Beautiful, inspirational, and practical, Find Your Calm shows you how to recognize your negative mental patterns and reprogram your thinking to live your best life. Let Johanna Bassols, a recognized thought leader, guide you on this journey to transform your mind through exercises designed to free your life of clutter and bring calm, balance, peace, and focus, reaffirming your truest...
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  • Financial Sorcery
    Financial Sorcery has so much in it that I've never seen in any book on the subject of money and magick, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to change their relationship with money and have it serve them, instead of the other way around. - Mat Auryn, bestselling author, Psychic Witch Financial Sorcery will give you step-by-step...
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  • Fight Cancer Undated Planner
    For caregivers and patients, the Fight Cancer Planner is the perfect medical log and organiser to remind you that this battle is yours to win! Cancer is tough, but you are tougher! Between the endless doctors' appointments, the countless medications, and the general exhaustion of day-to-day life, fighting cancer can sometimes feel like fighting the entire world. Whether you're in...
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  • Existential Psychotherapy
    Existential Psychotherapy has been practiced and continues to be practiced in many forms and situations throughout the world. However, until now, it has lacked a coherent structure, an analysis of its tenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whose Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such a service to that discipline since 1970, provides existential psychotherapy...
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  • Everything Is Made Out of Magic Sticker Book
    Following up on the successful Everything Is Wild and Free puzzle and stationery set comes a new group of paper products from Flow and the artist Valesca van Waveren. Taking as its inspiration a quote from Francis Hodgson Burnett, and translating it into stunning images that capture the magic we find in nature, particularly on a starlit night, Everything Is...
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  • Ethics, Life and Institutions
    General complaints about moral decay, however frequent and even justified they may be, are of little use. This book does not complain; it acts. Jan Sokol’s Ethics, Life and Institutions applies our ever improving knowledge in various fields to questions of morality in an effort to enhance our ability to discern different moral phenomena and to discuss them more precisely....
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  • Eros
    We all think we know what love is. We know it from the songs, romantic comedies, and stories that we have been told since childhood. But what if love is not what we have been taught to believe? How can we transcend the idea of love that has been instilled in us, and how can we overcome the habits of...
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  • Emotional Inheritance
    Galit Atlas deftly shows why the hurts and stuckness that can plague us can be faced and, yes, dissolved. Contemporary psychoanalysis at its best. - Susie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue Past family trauma can keep us unconsciously connected to the past. It shapes our lives in ways we don't always recognise, and can keep us from...
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  • Elemental Spells
    Harness the diverse energies of the four elements with these simple, efficient spells and rituals. With rituals, recipes, and intentions to ask for magical assistance, forty-four individual spell cards are divided into the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water. They feature planets, gods and goddesses, chakras, animal spirits, crystals, moon energies, and manifestations to aid you in your daily...
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  • Edible Economics
    Economic thinking—about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more—in its most digestible form. For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy—like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines...
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  • Dream, Believe, Achieve
    This small but mighty book of encouraging quotes and uplifting affirmations is here to help you face any challenge life throws your way. If you can dream it, you can do it. Like seeds becoming mighty trees, your motivation and inspiration need to be nurtured. The right words at the right time can make a world of difference. This collection...
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  • Discovering the Scientist Within
    Discovering the Scientist Within is unique in the way it teaches students about research methods using a case study approach. Each chapter presents students with a single study described from start to finish. Chapters start by asking students to consider a scenario and then walk them through the steps of the study: formulating a research question, performing a literature review,...
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  • Developing Person Through Childhood
    Examine childhood and adolescent development and gain a stronger understanding of this maturing area of study through the cross-cultural, real-life examples and research presented in Developing Person Through Childhood.
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  • Desire and Fate
    At a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieff's essays offer a bracing antidote. The writings collected in Desire and Fate cover topics as diverse as censorship in contemporary publishing, the cultural ubiquity of the notion of trauma, and the future of democracy on a global level....
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  • Dark Shadow, Golden Shadow
    Dark Shadow, Golden Shadow provides the tools and guidance necessary to embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing, with the added benefit of using magickal tools as a way to gently explore the depths of our psyches, both challenging (the dark) and positive (the golden). Shannon Knight's approach to shadow work is deeply rooted in secular, therapeutic, and psychological...
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  • Creatrix Awakened Journal
    Creatrix Awakened Journal is a one-of-a-kind journalling experience, featuring prompts, activations, prayers, and practices from sixteen fierce feminine leaders. This multiauthor journal offers a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, guiding readers to embody their leadership, embrace their sovereignty, and connect with the rising frequencies of the New Earth. The Creatrix Awakened Journal is an empowering, multidimensional journey designed to accompany...
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  • Creating Capabilities
    If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world's billions of individuals are really managing? In this powerful critique, Martha Nussbaum argues that...
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  • Cosmic Wealth Codes Journal
    The Cosmic Wealth Codes Journal is your guide to realising wealth as your divine birthright. Drawing on collaboration with Artemis and Arrow, it unlocks the wealth frequencies within oneself. With reflective prompts, affirmations, card spreads, and celestial art, it's a portal to self-discovery and alignment with cosmic abundance. The Cosmic Wealth Codes Journal serves as a vessel for your cosmic...
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  • Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Coronavirus
    Microchips, government-replaced bird drones, QAnon and vaccine tracers: these are just a few of the most common conspiracies we have heard over and over again throughout most of 2020-2021's news cycles. There are common categories of conspiracy theories, variants of which pop up repeatedly, and new and outrageous theories that seemingly appear overnight. While most of them are easily debunked,...
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  • Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
    Birth of a Psychedelic Culture shines a bright light on the exploratory culture of the time and experiments undertaken by Professors Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), and then-graduate student, Ralph Metzner. Based on a series of recent (2003 to 2005) conversations between the survivors of that distinguished trio, Metzner and Alpert, facilitated by psychiatrist and writer Gary Bravo, the...
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  • Better Call Saul and Philosophy
    Better Call Saul and Philosophy: I Think Therefore I Scam is a collection of twenty-three essays exploring the philosophical themes in the hit television show Better Call Saul, a prequel to the TV show Breaking Bad. The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul, with thirteen episodes, began airing in April 2022. The central character is Jimmy McGill, whom...
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  • A World after Liberalism
    A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century “Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times “One of the best books I’ve read this year. . . . Its importance at this...
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  • Awakening Creativity
    Have you ever told yourself, 'I'm just not creative'? Or perhaps you're an artist who once burned with passion, only to watch that flame flicker and fade. Too often, we learn that creativity must justify itself, measured by praise, practicality, or perfection. A dismissive teacher, a sceptical loved one, or the weight of self-doubt can slowly turn art into a...
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  • A Theory of Justice
    John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free...
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  • Apothecary for the Afflicted
    Apothecary for the Afflicted is a unique and transformative tool disguised as a book. The pages are filled with rich and potent shadow-work practices to uncover the authentic self while healing invisible wounds. Throughout the book, the reader encounters hauntingly beautiful imagery blended with the symbolism of fairy tales. The shadow speaks symbolically because it is beneath our conscious awareness....
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  • A Philosopher's take on economics
    Everyone wants to be happy... don’t they? Everyone seeks fulfilment in life... don’t they? Unfortunately, this is not the common state in life today, and much is due to the human failing of greed. This book offers a solution. Science explains and understands the world of matter, and philosophy explains and understands the world of spirit. Economics is the meeting...
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  • An Introduction to Brain and Behavior
    In this unique inquiry-based introduction to behavioural neuroscience, each chapter focuses on a central question (e.g., "How Does the Nervous System Function?"). The authors emphasise a distinctive clinical perspective, with examples showing students what happens when common neuronal processes malfunction. The new edition of An Introduction to Brain and Behavior continues the tradition of incorporating the latest research into the...
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  • Angelic Realms Oracle
    Embark on a celestial journey with the Angelic Realms Oracle. This powerful tool connects you with divine energy and angelic guides, offering activating affirmations and messages from higher realms. Discover your inner earth angel and form a beautiful connection with your angel team. Let its energy heal and empower you. Float on a cloud with your celestial guides by your...
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  • A More Beautiful Question
    To get the best answer—in business, in life—you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that this ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy—and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even...
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  • Aligned and Unstoppable
    Inspirational and relatable guide that helps build self-belief, release comparison and give confidence to embrace our unique creativity in business and life. In Aligned & Unstoppable, you'll discover how to nurture, expand and maintain a creative life and path that's deeply aligned to who you are, staying anchored and grounded in your truth, all while building a beautiful, sustainable life...
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  • 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life for Caregivers, Activists and Helping Professionals
    A practical guide to self-care and community care, written for helpers—the caregivers, activists, community leaders, mental health and medical professionals who are the first to help others, but the last to seek help themselves. As an activist, community organiser and social worker, Farzana Doctor has preached self-care to hundreds of people struggling with burnout and exhaustion. But for years she...
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  • 3 Minute Positivity Journal
    Good vibes in 3 minutes or less! This self-help book and journal all in one helps you train your mind for greater happiness in just minutes a day. With all the time we spend on our digital devices, it's important to also have a practice of physically writing out our thoughts, feelings, intentions, reflections, goals, and wins. This 60-day best-selling...
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  • 3 Minute Happiness Journal
    From the author of the hugely popular 3 Minute Positivity Journal, an all-new journal with more prompts, affirmations, and ways to boost your mood in just minutes a day. Kristen Butler created her original, hugely popular 3 Minute Positivity Journal to share the tools, mindset strategies, and habits that helped her go from depressed and broke—literally broken—to happy, thriving, and...
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  • 2025 Love Notes from Chippy Boxed Calendar
    Fill your year with love and kindness with heartfelt notes from Chippy the Dog! Start your day with lots of love from a little dog! This 2025 boxed calendar is packed with messages of love and encouragement from internet sensation Chippy the Dog. Sweet, funny, and heartfelt, this collection stands out from other sweet comic and love note calendar products,...
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  • 2025 Everyday Calm Planner
    Reset, refresh, and live better with this 2025 self-care organiser! Reset, refresh, and live better with this 2025 self-care organiser! Calm mind, calm life. Simple, inspiring, and practical, this weekly self-love planner will invite tranquillity and positivity into your life on your path to daily wellness. Full of stress relief techniques, thoughtful tips, and simple meditations, each page of this...
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  • The Power in Surrender
    Find the power to be your authentic self in Christ and take hold of the life you have been longing for. Are you tired of "just making it" day after day? Learn how to give voice to your changing needs and acknowledge your growth. The Power in Surrender teaches you to refuse the burden of bearing it all alone, allowing...
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  • The Healing Power of Cats
    In these nine life-fulfilling lessons, learn how your cat can bring you peace, comfort and a unique happiness. A home without a cat is just a house, as they say. There is something special about our feline friends – the comfort they bring, their intuition, their famously comedic side – that contributes to a household’s average happiness index. In fact,...
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    Radical Kindness
    In this essential guide and tie-in to the PBS special The Power of Radical Kindness, the renowned creator of Blue’s Clues and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and protégée of Fred Rogers explores the importance of kindness and how it can change your life. Angela C. Santomero believes in the radical power of kindness—on her shows and in her life. Inspired by...
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  • It Starts with You
    The secret to happiness is closer than you think…
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  • How to Read Minds
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    How to Read Minds
    'A beautifully observed exploration of what it really means to understand another person' EMMA REED TURRELL 'Sharp, funny and brilliant – a book that needed to be written' DR CAMILLA PANG What is true empathy? The classic stereotype of autistic people is that they can’t empathise, that they’re highly intellectual but find it difficult to connect. As an autistic psychotherapist...
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  • Birds, Sex and Beauty
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    Birds, Sex and Beauty
    In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory. 'FASCINATING' The Times ‘Matt Ridley is one of our finest science writers … A treat for bird lovers and evolutionary biologists alike’ Richard Dawkins Animals rarely treat sex as...
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  • Your Hidden Genius
    It’s time to discover your hidden genius—and embrace your life’s work. “If happiness, success, and fulfillment are your intended destinations in life (and who doesn’t want those) Your Hidden Genius is your express-lane ticket.” —Adam Taggart, entrepreneur; president and cofounder, Peak Prosperity; and author of Finding Your Way to Your Authentic Career Featuring access to the innovative YouScience aptitude assessment,...
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  • You Are Home Affirmation Cards
    This collection of 64 beautifully illustrated affirmation cards from artist Tarn Ellis is a love letter to the soul, inspiring and empowering women of all ages to blossom into their full potential. You Are Home Affirmation Cards empower you to believe in your innate magic, to manifest your dreams, and above all, to bloom. The beautiful, dreamlike illustrations and words...
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  • Would You Kill the Fat Man?
    A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he will topple onto...
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  • Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
    "Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science." Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory...
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  • Why Liberalism Works
    An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world "Beginning with the simple but fertile idea that people should not push other people around, Deirdre McCloskey presents an elegant defence of 'true liberalism' as opposed to its well-meaning rivals on the left and the right. Erudite, but marvellously accessible and written...
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  • When the Sun Bursts
    When the Sun Bursts by Christopher Bollas is a compelling work where a leading psychoanalyst shares his experiences working with schizophrenic patients, demonstrating the effectiveness of talk therapy as a treatment. Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanisation. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher...
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  • What Would Ozzy Do?
    Be inspired by the affirmations, wit and wisdom of Rock & Roll royalty. For Ozzy Osbourne fans around the world. Go back to the beginning with the perfect gift for Ozzy and Black Sabbath fans 'Looking back on my life, I don't know how I got here... I've lived a hell of a life' - Ozzy Godfather of heavy metal,...
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  • What We Owe to Each Other
    How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In What We Owe to Each Other, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to...
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  • What is Art?
    Both critics and admirers of Tolstoy's great novel were shocked by the savage iconoclasm of his What is Art? when it appeared in 1898. How was it that this great artist could condemn the works of Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven and even his own Anna Karenina as 'false art'? Today's reader still has to grapple with that paradox. The essay still...
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  • Welcome
    Welcome: Patterns of the Moral Life proposes a transformative concept that places the act of welcoming at the core of ethical living and human flourishing. This radical approach asserts that welcome is not merely a virtue or an act of kindness, but the foundational practice from which all other ethical behaviours arise. Through this lens, welcome becomes the primary orientation...
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  • Undisciplined
    Undisciplined is an odyssey into possibility. Challenging us to break free from limiting strictures and structures, it encourages readers to envision just futures and reflect on the inner transformation required to become the custodians of those worlds. In a profound and heartfelt offering, Melz Owusu delves into the stifling impact of the education system on imagination. They probe alternative, deeply...
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  • Time, Duration and Eternity in Spinoza
    Jaquet offers a detailed analysis of time, duration, and eternity in Spinoza's works, as well as how these themes relate to each other through the entirety of his corpus. With Spinoza, she asks how it is possible for human beings, as finite modes of existence, to share in God's eternity, as well as how human existence relates to the eternity...
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  • Thought Experiments
    Jonathon Keats' work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities—from the absurd to the profound....
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  • The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy
    The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy is a collection of original, internationally diverse essays that provides unsurpassed breadth and depth of coverage of the subject. The most comprehensive art therapy book in the field, it explores a wide range of themes. It is a unique collection featuring current and innovative clinical, theoretical, and research approaches in the field. Cutting-edge in...
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  • The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy
    Enlightenment from the South Park gang faster than you can say, "Screw you guys, I'm going home"! The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah! presents a compilation of serious philosophical reflections on the twisted insights voiced by characters in TV’s most irreverent animated series. Offers readers a philosophically smart and candid approach to one of television’s most subversive...
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  • The Surprising Purpose of Anger
    You can feel it when it hits you. Your face flushes and your vision narrows. Your heartbeat increases as judgmental thoughts flood your mind. Your anger has been triggered, and you are about to say or do something that will likely make it worse. You have an alternative. By practising the Non-violent Communication (NVC) process you can use that anger...
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  • The Subversive Simone Weil
    Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycée students and organized union workers, fought alongside anarchists during the Spanish Civil War and...
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  • The Silent Crossing
    A haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on materials from across many cultures, Pascal Quignard makes an effort to establish shared human values as the breeding ground for a modern Enlightenment. Considering atheism as a spiritual liberation, suicide as a free act,...
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  • The Questions of Milinda
    A Greek king and a Buddhist monk engage in a transformational philosophical dialogue. The legendary conversation between the Greek King Milinda, traditionally identified as Menander, and the Buddhist monk Nagasena is believed to have taken place after Alexander's campaign in India. The earliest versions of this dialogue originate from the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, known as Greater Gandhara,...
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  • The Price of Our Values
    The economic case for self-interest at the outer limits of being morally good. Modern life is an exercise in discomfort. In the face of endless injustice, how much selfishness is permissible? How do we square suffering elsewhere with our hope to thrive at home? How does one strive for the greater good while guarding one's personal interests? The Price of...
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  • The Porch
    Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we’ve entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one place teach us about the world and ourselves? What do we—and the things we’ve built—mean in...
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  • The Paradox of Passion
    The Paradox of Passion: How Rewards Covertly Control Motivation challenges conventional wisdom about motivation. It reveals why legacy research findings are often misinterpreted and overgeneralised, leading to unrealistic beliefs about the self and others. These beliefs foster ineffective strategy use, impeding optimal learning and performance. The book provides cross-disciplinary evidence emphasising the essential role of rewards as a biological and...
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  • Theology and the Scientific Imagination
    Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others...
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  • The Moral Foundations of Politics
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward...
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  • The Missing Peace
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    Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sense and nonsense collide. Written in an...
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    Learn how to use the power of your breath to gain clarity, peace and better health with this beginner's guide to the ancient practice of breathwork. If you're looking for ways to boost your overall health and well-being, and tools that can bring you instant calm, then breathwork is the answer. Breathwork combines meditation and mindfulness with the ancient traditions...
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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.