After Jews
Critically interprets the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world after Jews. The basic idea of this book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world after Jews. The author achieves this by referring to the language of political theology,...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
You Must Change Your Life
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
You Are Amazing
100-piece Puzzle: This uplifting 100-piece jigsaw would make the perfect gift for anyone in need of a positive pick-me-up and who enjoys puzzle solving and imaginative thinking. Colourful Artwork: The puzzle features a bright, colourful and attractive design that's guaranteed to be enjoyed by anyone with a creative side. Screen-Free Fun: Jigsaw puzzles are a great screen-free activity which can...Jigsaw$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Writing Landscape
Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and time. Writing Landscape by Linda Cracknell is crafted by a writer of place and nature who believes in being alert, observing, and writing from the particulars of each experience. Engaging bodily with her writing, she is someone for whom getting mud on her boots, sleeping high up in the hills,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
What's Wrong with Democracy?
Fifth-century Athens is praised as the cradle of democracy and sometimes treated as a potential model for modern political theory or practice. In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the United States today, Loren J. Samons provides ample justification for our founding fathers' distrust of democracy, a form of government they scorned precisely because of...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Videotape
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the dynamics of the ‘80s and...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Vygotsky Reader
Until quite recently, Vygotsky's work was known only to a small circle of Western psychologists, but he has rapidly emerged as one of the major theorists of the twentieth century. This new volume aims to provide students and scholars alike with a lively introduction to Vygotsky's work based on authoritative translations of the original sources. The volume covers the various...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Universal Exception
Slavoj Žižek is one of the world’s foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high-profile thinkers of our time. The Universal Exception brings together some of Žižek’s most vivid writings on politics. Bringing together high theory, popular culture and passionate engagement with...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Unbuilt Bench
Psychological experts are omnipresent across public and private spheres. Nonetheless, psychology has always been dogged by questions about its authority and validity. Psychological research has yielded relatively few unambiguous successes, and the widely publicised "replication crisis" has called much of the published literature into question. How closely akin to other experimental sciences is psychology, and should its findings be assessed...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Three Dimensions of Freedom
We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ordinary voters feel helpless to effect change, resulting in outbreaks of populist anger, and traditional platforms for debate are losing their viability as readers source information online. In this short and vital polemic, progressive thinker and activist Billy Bragg...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The structure of modern cultural theory
What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to...Paperback$4699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Spirit of Revolution
In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both "the human" and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of mankind and "the human," and question how Man can presume to change the world by revolutionary action, particularly when Marx’s dreams seem to have...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Second Coming
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICK Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, The Second Coming examines the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe v. Wade, post-#MeToo America—and how the challenges they face are harbingers of what’s coming for the rest of us. As a college student, award-winning journalist Carter Sherman, along with several members of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Roving Shadows
A bold and adventurous work of literature that explores the relationship between reading, writing, sex, and death. The first book in Pascal Quignard's Last Kingdom series, The Roving Shadows can be read as a long meditation on reading and writing that strives to situate these otherwise innocuous activities in a profound relationship to sex and death. Writing and reading can,...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Power of Hope
World headlines and our personal struggles can leave us feeling weary and anxious. But life's questions and our emotions are not new to God. If you are feeling exhausted, worried, or lonely or are facing life's difficulties, The Power of Hope by Jack Countryman offers a beautiful reminder that the same God who comforted and blessed the people of the...Hardback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Politics of Aesthetics
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Philosophy of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Philosophy is part of The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy. The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author rejects the standard narratives of contemporary...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Theory of Form
A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigm’s negotiation of the “essence of art,” he takes Richter to pursue a...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Morality Handbook
Do we really need to be divided from those whose opinions are different from our own? And are there ways that we can overcome these differences and divisions? Exploring a variety of moral issues through engaging, real-life examples—including promise keeping, lying, adultery, favouring our friends and loved ones, harming innocent people for the good of the majority, the obligation to...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Mismeasure of Man
When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, ranking them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as evidenced by the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees that Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy....Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Lure of the Image
The Lure of the Image shows how camera movement, a long-neglected topic of study, challenges key assumptions underlying debates within cinema and media studies. Taking up the shifting intersection of point of view and camera position, Daniel Morgan draws on a range of theoretical arguments and detailed analyses across cinemas to reimagine the relation between spectator and camera—and between camera...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Investor's Quotient
Praise for the classic guide to gaining a psychological advantage in investment and trading: The Investor's Quotient is destined to go down in history as the ultimate book on investor psychology. It explains the psychology of a trader in clear and simple English and teaches highly effective methods designed to improve the bottom line. - Larry Williams, author of Long-Term...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Hum of the World
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit, and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form. The positive...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing
Letters have been here all along, quietly influencing countless people in profound ways. They encourage, they bring happiness, while to some they even provide the will to keep on living. Geulwoll is a Korean word for 'letter'. It is also the name of a small, unassuming letter shop, located on the third floor of a shabby building in the bustling...Hardback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Feeling Brain
After years of neglect by both mainstream biology and psychology, the study of emotions has emerged as a central topic of scientific inquiry in the vibrant new discipline of affective neuroscience. Elizabeth Johnston and Leah Olson trace how work in this rapidly expanding field speaks to fundamental questions about the nature of emotion: What is the function of emotions? What...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Evolution of Knowledge
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology. This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the...Hardback$10400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Ego Made Manifest
From Karl Marx to Wyndham Lewis, this book examines Max Stirner’s influence on the modern manifesto. Max Stirner has long proven to be an elusive figure at the fringes of 19th-century German idealism. He has been portrayed as the father of the philosophical dead end that was egoistic anarchism: a withered branch of an ineffectual movement, remembered largely because of...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Ego and His Own
The Ego and His Own, the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen, and Victor Serge, among many others, some of whom would vigorously deny any such influence in later years. Less reticent was Marcel Duchamp, who described Max Stirner as the philosopher most important to his work. Challenging the religious, philosophical, and...Paperback$9500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Devil
It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan or the Adversary (in Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has throughout the ages and across civilizations been a compelling and charismatic presence. For two thousand years the...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Corruption of Capitalism
When it was originally published in 2016, The Corruption of Capitalism introduced the concept of rentier capitalism, whereby a small, rich cadre controls access to property and profit without actually contributing to society. In this third edition of his bestselling polemic, celebrated labour economist Guy Standing brings his tale of corruption up to date to encompass debates around the pandemic...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists
The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists is a survey of contemporary social theory that focuses on the thinkers themselves. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 13 major theorists such as Elias, Baudrillard, Giddens, and Butler. Includes 13 original essays by leading scholars on major contemporary social...Paperback$11199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Adult Years
The Adult Years is a compelling look at adulthood as an opportunity for continual revitalisation, reorientation, and positive change. In this revised edition, Frederic Hudson updates and refines his vision, reflecting the extraordinary challenges we all face in today's fast-paced, ever-changing society. Whether you are eighteen or eighty-eight, this classic best-selling guide will inspire you to unlock the power of...Paperback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Social Democracy in the Making
Social Democracy in the Making is an expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists. The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism—a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Silence, Joy
In this day of mindless distraction, we're desperate for reasons to put down our phones and reconnect with our spiritual selves. In time for the 50th anniversary of Thomas Merton's death in 1968, Silence, Joy is an invitation to slow down, take a breath, make a space for silence, and open up to joy. Poet, monk, spiritual advisor, and social...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life was immediately hailed as "not your average self-help book" and demanded attention and praise right out of the gate. It is now considered one of the icons of the personal development movement. Now, Larry Winget is back with his signature caustic, no-nonsense, hilarious style, which earned him the titles "Pitbull of Personal...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Shiny Things
Shiny objects attract and fascinate us. While they used to derive their power from their rarity, today shininess is pervasive: its attraction is a foundation of consumer culture and it has attendant effects on our architecture, our conceptions of the body, and our production of spectacle. In Shiny Things, Leonard Diepeveen and Timothy van Laar examine the meanings and functions...Paperback$5599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth
A wide-ranging collection of essays from one of America's leading public intellectuals. In Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth, acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar Robert P. George tackles one of the most vexing issues dividing Americans today. He argues that the "Age of Faith" of the Medieval period and the "Age of Reason" of the European Enlightenments have been followed...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Secular Buddhism
An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor’s most probing and important work on secular Buddhism As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as hospitals,...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Running with the Pack
'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two—running and philosophising—are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life—from the...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Religio Duplex
In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West — that of religio duplex, or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture as divided between the popular and the elite. By...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Readings of the Gateless Barrier
The Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chinese Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228, it contains forty-eight Zen stories of spiritual awakening called "public cases" or gong'ans (known as kōans in Japanese and kongans in Korean). This book presents a...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Reading Capital
Establishing a rigorous programme of "symptomatic reading" that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx's structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break—the basis of a completely new science. Building on a series of Althusser's conceptual innovations that includes "overdetermination" and "social formation," Étienne Balibar explores the historical and structural...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Raising a Socially Successful Child
We all want our children to learn the social skills they need to thrive. Yet many kids are struggling to connect, often with no apparent reason why. With the steep rise in screen time and the social learning lost to Covid quarantines and school closures, many kids haven't had sufficient opportunity to learn all the rules of nonverbal behaviour. In...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Provocations
Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard's prodigious output: his famously cantankerous (yet wryly humorous) attacks on what he calls the "mediocre shell" of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, and his wise (and witty) sayings. Most significantly, it brings to a new generation a man whose writings pare away the fluff of modern spirituality to reveal the basics...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Power, Pleasure, and Profit
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Political Political Theory
Political institutions are the main subject of political theory—or they ought to be. Making the case with his trademark forcefulness and intellectual aplomb, Jeremy Waldron argues in favour of reorienting the theory of politics toward the institutions and institutional principles of modern democracy and the mechanisms through which democratic ideals are achieved. Too many political theorists are preoccupied with analysing...Hardback$8099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Phenomenology for Therapists
Phenomenology for Therapists provides an accessible, comprehensive exploration of phenomenological theory and research methods, geared specifically to the needs of therapists and other health care professionals. This book includes: An accessible exploration of an increasingly popular qualitative research methodology. Explanations of phenomenological concepts and how they apply to different stages of the research process and topics relevant to therapy practice....Paperback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
On Ethics and Economics
In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economics. He argues further that even predictive and descriptive economics can be helped by making more room for welfare-economic considerations in the explanation of behaviour.Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
On Democracy
Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing challenges democracy faces in the modern world. "Within the liberal democratic camp there is considerable controversy about exactly how to define democracy. Probably...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Objects Untimely
Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore, who defend radical positions in their respective fields. Against a current and pervasive conviction that reality consists of an unceasing flux – a view associated in philosophy with New Materialism – object-oriented...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Nietzsche and Architecture
Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsche’s relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire. It situates his philosophy more appropriately and comprehensively within the field of architectural studies, architectural history, and theory. Divided into two parts, the book first examines Nietzsche’s philosophy of architecture, exploring his notions of rhythm, ornament, style, and power. It then...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Mindful Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
A practising psychologist, one of the top popularisers of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), offers a fresh, welcome approach for treating mental health issues that speaks to our times. By blending mindfulness and spirituality with CBT, the book effectively helps overcome negative thinking, achieve deep healing, and truly attain lasting peace. Mental health professionals have numerous tools and techniques to help...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Metaphysics, Volume II
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE. He was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. Aristotle studied under Plato at Athens and taught there between 367 and 347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, where he married Pythias,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Mensa Brain Games Pack
The Mensa Brain Games Pack contains a range of different activities, including eight separate games, so you'll be able to enjoy it again and again, on your own or with your family and friends. With a range of fiendish questions to enthral puzzlers of every level of ability, this is a great purchase for anyone looking for a new challenge....Set$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Mathematics of the Transcendental
In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from set theory, and the "thinking of being". In doing so, he sets out the basic onto-logical requirements of his greater and transcendental logics as articulated in his magnum opus, Logics of Worlds. Previously...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Market Civilizations – Neoliberals East and South
A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South Where does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the Mont Pelerin Society has allowed for closer study of the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions. Yet even as this literature brought neoliberalism down to earth, it tended to reproduce a...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Mad Men and Philosophy
A look at the philosophical underpinnings of the hit TV show, Mad Men With its swirling cigarette smoke, martini lunches, skinny ties, and tight pencil skirts, Mad Men is unquestionably one of the most stylish, sexy, and irresistible shows on television. But the series becomes even more absorbing once you dig deeper into its portrayal of the changing social and...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical...Paperback$6900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Language, Madness, and Desire
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. Language, Madness, and Desire brings together previously unpublished...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Judgment and Decision-making
How do we make the judgments that inform our lives? Is there any way of consciously removing bias from the choices we make? What do our everyday personal decisions have in common with those made by groups, companies, and even nations? Judgment and Decision-making by Nancy S. Kim presents a multidisciplinary introduction to the dynamic field of judgment and decision-making....Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Joyful Recollections of Trauma
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKLIST AN AUDIE AWARD FINALIST “Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfect ingredients for a happy and funny life.”—Amy Poehler "It’s a hilarious essay collection about trauma. Yes, really."—People Magazine From award-winning actor and comedian...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Investigative Ethics
Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that arise for police detectives and other investigators in contemporary society. Explores ethical issues relating to investigative independence, rights of victims and suspects, use of informants, entrapment, privacy and surveillance, undercover operations, deception, and suspect interviewing. Represents the first monograph providing a detailed...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Introduction to Behavior
An up-to-date approach to behaviour analysis within the framework of evolutionary theory Introduction to Behavior is a contemporary textbook for students in behaviour analysis and other behaviourally-oriented disciplines. Dispensing with outdated models of behaviour and reinforcement, this book adopts a new conceptual framework for the understanding of behaviour, human and nonhuman. It will help students at all levels, particularly students...Paperback$9899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
How to Think - Tactical Thinking Puzzles
How do captains of industry and the greatest strategic minds come to the decisions they do? Learn how to think in ways that will help keep you one step ahead, while completing enjoyable brain-training puzzles. Debating skills, sound logical reasoning, and thinking outside the box are all examined, bringing you a new understanding of tactics, strategy, and decision-making. How to...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Hölderlin′s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843
Hölderlin’s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Alta L. Price, explores the profound questions surrounding existence through the lens of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. Agamben, one of Europe's revered philosophers, provides an insightful analysis of Hölderlin's life and work. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self?...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Ha! – A Christian Philosophy of Humor
This book almost didn't exist. I was about to write a serious, heavy book entitled How To Save Western Civilization, as a sequel to my book How To Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss. But writing it was not making me happy, and reading it was not going to make anybody else happy either. And then...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Finding Inner Safety
Finding Inner Safety Find safety, security and peace in the modern world. When we work hard, sometimes we put our mental health on the backburner. Stress, a lack of sleep and other factors can quickly lead to burnout. How can we balance our goals with a peaceful lifestyle? Replace stress, burnout and surviving with resilience, energy-optimisation and thriving. With expert...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Ethical Violence
Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of others. However, in some circumstances, violence itself can be regarded as ethical – for example, when it is used by...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Ethical Loneliness
Ethical Loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them redress by negating their testimony and thwarting their claims for justice. Jill Stauffer examines the...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written. The essays consider its reception, its engagement in the discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and Irish writers of the Romantic period, and its impact within our contemporary...Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Drawing Investigations
Using close visual analysis of drawings, artist interviews, critical analysis and exegesis, Drawing Investigations examines how artists use drawing as an investigative tool to reveal information that would otherwise remain unseen and unnoticed. How does drawing add shape to ideas? How does the artist accommodate to challenges and restraints of a particular environment? To what extent is a drawing complementary...Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Disagreement
Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion, and morality to sport, culture, and art. Unless you are delusional, you are aware that a great many of the people who disagree with you are just as smart and thoughtful as you are—in...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Dating Sucks, but You Don't
From renowned international dating coach comes a “smart, funny, classy, and practical” (Mike Sacks, editor at Vanity Fair) dating guide for men looking to gain confidence and find lasting love in the #MeToo era. Rejection. Ghosting. Not knowing how to talk to women. For many men, dating just sucks. But it doesn’t have to. There’s a simple yet powerful way...Paperback$5399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Cultural Appropriation and the Arts
Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural Appropriation and the Arts is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world. From the Parthenon Marbles remaining in London to white musicians like Bix Beiderbecke and Eric Clapton appropriating musical styles from African-American culture, these issues...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Cosmic Pessimism
“We're doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Correspondence 1930-1940
‘We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.’ So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin, published...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Cooperation
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, non-profits to mutual aid, countless examples prove that people working together can extend the ideals of participatory democracy and sustainability into every aspect of their lives....Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Conserving Active Matter
Considers the future of conservation and its connection to the human sciences. This volume brings together the findings from a five-year research project that seeks to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world. The project, “Cultures of Conservation,” was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and included events, seminars, and an artist-in-residence....Hardback$12399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Confronting Totalitarian Minds
Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that tumult. One of the last students of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, he was a philosophical inspiration to Václav Havel and other dissidents who confronted the Soviet regimes before 1989, as well...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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