Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions
What is the position of art in contemporary culture, where it is threatened by an ever-greater diversity of media, discourses, practices, genres, and forms? Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions sets out to answer this question by exploring art and social agency, communication, the problem of Biennales and other major events, and the shadow of postcolonialism as it hangs over art...Hardback$18700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Bulletproof Vest
WIRED 2020 Book of the Year Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "Nothing's bulletproof," the salesman said. "The thing's only bullet resistant." The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on assignment. He was travelling into Mosul, Iraq,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
BIFF at Work
Hostile emails, letters, and conversations can drain inordinate amounts of time, emotional energy, and expense in the workplace. For over a dozen years, the BIFF method of communicating has helped thousands of people calm conflicts and create clear communication in response to misinformation, blame, and unnecessary anger in writing or in-person. This new book focuses exclusively on workplace conflicts—internal and...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
In this contemporary classic, Lewis Gordon presents his iconic, detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism explores bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, as a constant possibility of human existence. Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involves the construction...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Bacteria to AI
A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In Bacteria to AI, Hayles develops a new theory of mind—what she calls an...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
A Year of Good Things
Getting into freshly laundered sheets. A dog in the office for a day. Unexpected cake. Studies have suggested that happiness doesn't come from thinking about what might happen in the future, but by focusing on the small moments of delight we find in our daily lives. Cultivating these positive emotions makes us happier and more resilient, so writer Jason Ward...Hardback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics. This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush" wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Aristotle's Politics
One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle’s masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord’s justly acclaimed translation has served as the standard English edition. Widely regarded as the most faithful to both the original Greek and Aristotle’s distinctive style, it is also written in clear, contemporary English....Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Aristotle: Introductory Readings
Drawn from the translations and editorial aids of Irwin and Fine's Aristotle, Selections, this anthology will be most useful to instructors who must try to do justice to Aristotle in a semester-long ancient philosophy survey. It is also appropriate for a variety of introductory-level courses. This book provides accurate, readable, and integrated translations that allow the reader to follow Aristotle's...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art provides an accessible primer for art students or researchers new to phenomenology. This book introduces the study and application of performance art through phenomenology, inviting readers to explore contemporary performance art and activate their own practices. Using queer phenomenology to unpack the importance of a multiplicity of self/s, the book teaches readers...Hardback$21599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
A Little History of Psychology
A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attempted to answer these questions, seeking to understand human behaviour, feelings, and thoughts. But how to explore something so elusive? In...Hardback$6400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
After Savagery
Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of 'Western philosophy' and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonised. The death toll in Gaza continues to rise—a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism. What remains of the theories we use to understand our world? With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Companion to Epistemology, 2 Volume Set
A Companion to Epistemology, 2 Volume Set, 3rd Edition A Companion to Epistemology provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference for understanding the theory of knowledge. Edited by distinguished scholars, this expanded third edition explores classic questions about knowledge and justified belief alongside contemporary topics such as social and political epistemology, the ethics of belief, and the epistemology of perception. With contributions...Hardback$74099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
5-Minute Bedtime Stories
Twelve fairy tales by Maria Gvardeitseva based on the real stories of her friends For centuries, the breakup has been the prerogative of men. Today, about half of all marriages in Europe end in divorce and, significantly, 75 percent of divorce applications are filed by women. Perhaps that last statistic explains why women suffer more emotional hurt and find it...Hardback$9000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
You Are Magical
Embrace your brilliance with this treasure trove of energising quotes, sound advice and inspiring affirmations. There's no one more special than you. Nobody else has your unique blend of spellbinding talent, wit, passion and personality—all of the things that make you so magical. And it never hurts to be reminded of just how great you truly are. The powerful dose...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Writings on Art and Politics
To the philosopher Boris Groys, everything technology produces in the modern world ultimately falls into two categories – it's art, or it's garbage. Both are useless, defunctionalized objects that simply lie there. The difference between them comes when we immunise art from the destructive power of time to which we devoutly deliver our garbage. In this collection of essays and...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Why Therapy Works
That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does it matter that we understand how it works? In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved—especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn,...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Why I Love Barthes
The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published texts, their conversations— notably in the famous dialogue which gives its name to this work. Robbe-Grillet freely said he had very few true friends but, next to the publisher Jérôme Lindon, he always cited...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Why Dance Matters
A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers Mindy Aloff, a journalist, essayist, and dance critic, analyses dance as the ultimate expression of human energy and feeling. From her personal anecdotes, her engaging collection of stories about dance from around the world, to her...Hardback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
When Harry Became Sally
This provocative book exposes the intolerance of the transgender movement and explores the troubles that arise when scientific realities are open to interpretation through a political lens—and the dangers we all face when good-faith, fact-based disagreements are no longer tolerated. Can a boy be "trapped" in a girl's body? Can modern medicine 'reassign' sex? Is our sex 'assigned' to us...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"
Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self. On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel Kant’s 1784 text, What Is Enlightenment? Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral attitude consisting in the “art...Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
We Are Not Born Submissive
What role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, female submissiveness as a source of satisfaction. In philosophy, even less has been said on why women submit to men and the discussion has been equally contradictory—submission...Paperback$7300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Waste
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s also waste—or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Virtuous Hypocrisy
Speak your mind, always. Hypocrisy challenges this rule of authenticity, and for this very reason, hypocrisy is judged negatively, as intentional inconsistency between thoughts and words, between belief and behaviour. Does this make the hypocrite a silent saboteur of the moral order? A person who hides in the shadows and erodes the foundations of trust? Without trust, there is no...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Untangled
Though we are seemingly more connected to our world than ever before, many of us cannot ignore a nagging sense of loneliness and isolation. To keep this anxiety and discontentment at bay, we can search for connection through unhealthy distractions, believing these will bring us true nourishment. And yet, loneliness is on the rise, exacting detrimental effects on our mental,...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Ulysses and the Limits of Dante’s Humanism / Ulisse o dei limiti dell’umanesimo dantesco
In his description of Ulysses in Canto XXVI of the Inferno, Dante subjected the legendary Greek hero to a thoroughgoing revision. The Homeric Ulysses, after ten years of war and a further ten of fabulous adventures throughout the Mediterranean, returns home to Ithaca and resumes his position as son, father, husband, and king of the island. In contrast, Dante's Ulysses—and...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Trauma-Informed Yoga Affirmation Card Deck
Supportive and compassionate guidance for trauma survivors can be found in this beautiful deck of affirmation cards that acts as a companion to Zahabiyah A. Yamasaki's Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault. The deck also may be used on its own for relaxation and healing. Trauma-informed yoga practices are coupled with each affirmation to foster a holistic healing process...Cards$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Yumiverse Mindful Coloring Book
Colour your way to a peaceful mind, body, and soul with this uplifting colouring book that gives off all the good vibes. Acclaimed comic and artist Yumi Sakugawa expands her repertoire with this unique and uplifting collection, The Yumiverse Mindful Coloring Book. Peaceful figures engaged in mindful meditation, reposing rituals, and peaceful poses inspire her fans to do the same....Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition
You deserve respect. In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life....Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Struggle for a Decent Politics
A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era There was a time when liberalism was an ism like any other, but that time, writes Michael Walzer, is gone. Liberal now conveys not a specific ideology but a moral stance, so the word is best conceived not as a...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Stoic Challenge
Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately, this is not the case. Philosopher William B. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics—thinkers including Marcus Aurelius and Seneca—with modern psychological techniques such as anchoring and framing to develop a surprisingly simple strategy for dealing with life’s unpleasant...Hardback$5099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Proof
In a world awash in "fake news," where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the courtroom, the scientific laboratory, and the insights of philosophers to explore the nature of evidence and show how it is credibly established. In the age of fake news, trust and truth are hard to come...Hardback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Prince
At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli composed his masterpiece, The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli’s name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures...Paperback$1699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Platonic Tradition
The Platonic tradition in Western philosophy is not just one of many equally central traditions. It is so much the central one that the very existence and survival of Western civilization depends on it. It is like the Confucian tradition in Chinese culture, or the monotheistic tradition in religion, or the human rights tradition in politics. In the first of...Hardback$4599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Outward Path
The Aztecs were a philosophical people who held that the top goal in human life is not happiness, but the pursuit of what they called neltiliztli: a life in truth. Our world, they held, is a "slippery" one—a place where it is easy to make mistakes and be unwell. A true life avoids slipping by pursuing a communitarian solution, beginning...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Theory of Seeing
The first English translation of a radical and influential theory of art by a leader of Poland's avant-garde After World War II, socialist realism became the official state doctrine of art in Poland, with abstract works deemed counterrevolutionary and forbidden from public view. Wladyslaw Strzeminski, a leader of the Polish constructivist avant-garde, developed a treatise of visual consciousness as a...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Theories of Ugliness
Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly comprehensive theoretical treatment of the ugly? Theories of Ugliness remedies this by gathering and scrutinising ideas of the ugly and unsightly from across the history of Western aesthetic and philosophical writing. Taking in ancient, medieval, and early modern concepts, all the way through...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Necessities Underlying Reality
This open access book covers four decades of work by the leading Australian philosopher, mathematician, and historian of ideas, James Franklin. These interlinking essays are connected by a core theme: the necessary structures in reality that allow certain knowledge of absolute truths. Franklin’s Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics shows how mathematical truths are directly about physical reality, and at the...Hardback$18700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Mythology in Our Language – Remarks on Frazer`s Golden Bough
In 1931, Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact—continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology’s theoretical terms, like mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits of human belief and imagination. Now the book receives its first translation by an...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Morality of Law
The Morality of Law is among the important books in the history of American legal philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between morality and law and advances a theory of law of great practical relevance. This is the best discussion of the demands of the rule of law in existing literature. —Robert S. Summers, Journal of Legal Education Throughout...Paperback$5399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Making of The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World
This highly illustrated publication details the concepts, construction and design of the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World at the British Museum. The book outlines not only the history of the extremely rich and varied collection of Islamic material culture at the British Museum, but also the challenges of building and designing a new gallery for the 21st...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Little Book of Humanist Weddings
From the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Little Book of Humanism A humanist wedding ceremony allows couples the freedom to express their love in a completely personal way - and choose what marriage means to them. In a beautiful collection of insights from humanist celebrants, plus quotes, poems, and meditations from humanist writers and thinkers throughout history, The...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Limits of Tolerance
The modern notion of tolerance—the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good—emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is increasingly being challenged...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Inner Marriage
How to integrate and evolve your inner masculine and feminine Explains polarity work as a tool to heal trauma, become less judgmental, and develop a more integrated relationship with ourselves and others. Explores 44 common traits of mature and immature masculine and feminine expressions, explaining how to evolve unhealthy expressions into healthy ones. Offers simple yet profound methods for evolving...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Immemorial
A thought-provoking exploration of the fragility of bourgeois identity. Vienna, 1825. News of a sickly, listless boy is making the rounds. In broad daylight, he falls into deep sleep and his personality changes dramatically. While sleeping, he reads, writes, plays cards, challenges his doctors with amusement, and accomplishes the most astonishing of exercises with his eyes closed. A new subject...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Hungry Eye
Eating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and statecraft. In this beautifully illustrated book, Leonard Barkan provides an illuminating meditation on how culture finds expression in what we eat and drink....Hardback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Hundred Remedies of the Tao
The Hundred Remedies of the Tao by Gregory Ripley is a new translation of the 6th-century Taoist text Bai Yao Lu (Statutes of the Hundred Remedies) accompanied by practical commentary. This book explains how the Hundred Remedies of the Bai Yao Lu offer a practical guide to what enlightened or sagely behaviour looks like. Each short verse of the Hundred...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Futures of Racial Capitalism
Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable, still now, to build commonality with each other. In this incisive book, Gargi Bhattacharyya revisits debates...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Enneagram Workbook
A comprehensive guide to the wisdom of the Enneagram... The Enneagram, a nine-pointed star in a circle, is an ancient cosmic symbol whose origin has been shrouded in mystery. Almost 100 years ago, internationally acclaimed wisdom teacher George Gurdjieff introduced it to the West, and in recent years it has soared in popularity as a way of gaining self-understanding. The...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Dhammapada
Easwaran's best-selling translation of this classic Buddhist text, The Dhammapada, is reliable, readable, and profound. Dhammapada means "the path of dharma," the path of harmony and righteousness that anyone can follow to reach the highest good. The Dhammapada is a collection of verses, gathered probably from direct disciples who wanted to preserve what they had heard from the Buddha himself....Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Deaf Girl
An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor's first deaf contestant. Abigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favourite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration—she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons: her profound deafness since birth...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Color of Calm
You can feel it through your coloured pencil, getting lost in an immersive pattern, bringing a flower to life. All the while slipping into a place of pleasurable quiet and peace. A visual love letter to the spirit of serenity, The Color of Calm offers page after page of intricate patterns and soothing scenes—a cosy fireplace, a cat curled up...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Aesthetic Cold War
How decolonisation and the Cold War influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower competition and the Cold War affect writers in the decolonising world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cultural diplomacy and the political police to influence writers. In response, many writers from Africa, Asia, and...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Tell Me What You Want
'Reading Tell Me What You Want may be the best thing you ever do for your sex life, your relationships, and your self-acceptance' - Geoffrey Miller, author of The Mating Mind, Spent, and Mate What do we really want when it comes to sex? How can we break the barriers that prevent us from communicating about our desires? Justin J....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Symbol Sourcebook
"A ready reference aid and an inspiration to designers. All in all the best book now available on symbols." - Library Journal This unparalleled reference represents a major achievement in the field of graphic design. Famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss recognised the importance of symbols in communicating more quickly and effectively; for many years he and his staff collected and...Paperback$11399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Socialism
Socialism has made a dramatic comeback in the 21st century. In the wake of financial crisis, mounting inequality and social decay, it seems more relevant than ever. Nobody who seeks to understand contemporary politics can ignore it. In this book, leading scholar Peter Lamb identifies the key ideas and principles of socialism and explores different (often conflicting) interpretations that have...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Slaves of God
A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thought Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God provides a major reassessment of this monumental figure in the Western religious and political tradition, tracing the remarkably close connections...Hardback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Sensing Collectives
Are aesthetics and politics really two different things? Sensing Collectives takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to practice. Case studies trace how sensory experiences are created and how collective interests are shaped. They investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Self-Care Cross-Stitch
From the author of the successful and provocative Feminist Cross-Stitch, comes a new collection of 40 patterns to help you practice self-care. Crafters will love this snarky book with its 40 witty cross-stitch patterns that focus on promoting a healthy, self-affirming relationship with yourself. Whether you want to proudly announce that Self-Care Is Not Selfish, or remind others that You...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Religion in Plain View
A revelatory critique of public display in the United States. In Religion in Plain View, Sally M. Promey analyses religion's visible saturation of American public space and the histories that shaped this exhibitionary aesthetics. In street art, vehicle décor, signs, monuments, architecture, zoning policy, and more, Promey exposes American display's merger of evangelicalism, capitalism, and imperialism. From this convergence, display...Hardback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Relationality
This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things. The authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Recipe
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process. These include lessons in hospitality, friendship, community, family and ethnic heritage, tradition, nutrition, precision and order, invention and improvisation,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Reading Hegel
Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory. The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, "theory" is often sceptical of all that Hegel ostensibly stood for: idealism, systematicity, and identity at the expense of difference. Yet, in spite of itself, literary theory is taken to owe a...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Racism and ‘Free Speech’
Free speech has become central to discussions about racism, and is increasingly weaponised against anti-racist movements. This book argues that the weaponisation of free speech across the political spectrum, particularly by the far-right/alt-right, has been central to the resurgence, rehabilitation, and normalisation of racism within the mainstream politics of western liberal democracies in the last decade. The dilemma then, for...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Political Sign
Finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction 2020 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In an election year, political signs can be impossible to avoid. They’re in front yards, on bumper stickers, and in some places you might never have expected. Tobias Carroll chronicles the permutations and...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Plato's "Laws"
An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws, his complex final work. The Laws was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract ideal, the Laws appears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of political order in the real world. Classicist Seth Benardete offers a rich analysis...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Plato: Five Dialogues
This second edition of Five Dialogues presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato: Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.Hardback$6700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Philosophy of Religion in Islam
This is the first anthology to represent the contributions and perspectives of medieval Islamic scholars on philosophy of religion. Assembling and translating 63 key texts, including many never before published in English, it captures the variety and influence of Islamic thought on how we think about the existence of God, the problem of evil, and the relationship between faith and...Paperback$8799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophical Orations, Volume I
A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical, philosophical, and theological import including the nature of divinity, the immortality of the soul, the sources of good and evil,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophical Inquiry
Philosophical Inquiry shows how to use the tools of philosophy for educational purposes. It is a practical guide to the philosophical arts of questioning, conceptual exploration, and reasoning, with wide application across the school curriculum. It provides educators with an effective means of teaching students to think critically and creatively, to use their knowledge to solve problems, to deal with...Paperback$9194Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophers on God
The origin of our universe is the greatest mystery of all. How do we find ourselves existing, let alone enveloped in a cosmos enriched with such order and complexity? For religious philosophers, despite the incredible advances of modern physics, we are no closer to a scientific explanation of where the universe came from. 'God', they affirm, 'is the best solution...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Perfume
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, and food. Fragrance is also entertainment. We can smell an expensive bottle of perfume at a high-end department store. Perhaps it reminds us of our favourite aunt. A memory...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Pedagogies of Collapse
Shortlisted: BERA Educational Research Book of the Year 2025 Climate change, biodiversity collapse, pandemics, wars, resource shortages, inflation, socio-economic inequality… after decades of progress and prosperity, the world has hit the limits to growth predicted by the Meadows report of 1972. How do we talk to and teach young people about collapse without triggering defence mechanisms of denial and depression?...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Owning Your Menopause: Fitter, Calmer, Stronger in 30 Days
Manage your menopause symptoms and get in the best shape of your life. In Owning Your Menopause, Kate Rowe-Ham proves it's possible to become fitter, calmer and stronger during menopause. Supported by her own personal menopause story and her experience as a personal trainer, Kate tells you everything you need to know to change your life for the better. Understanding...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
With the revised information and up-to-date research, Out of the Shadows is the premier work on sex addiction, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Our Aesthetic Categories
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people use to process the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism, treating...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Of Human Kindness
While exploring Shakespeare’s plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare’s genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Office
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming’s Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has arguably been the primary site of labour in the postmodern economy. During the post-war decades of the...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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