Nature Therapy
Discover the healing power of nature with this beautiful book, which will help you reconnect with the natural world to nurture your well-being. Nature Therapy is the practice of reconnecting with the natural world. Whether you find your sense of connection in the adventure of windswept cliffs, the solace of a forest, the comfort of your own garden or in...Hardback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMirror of Obedience
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of Obedience collects together Weil's poetry and autobiographical writings translated into English for the first time. It offers a rare glimpse into a more personal and introspective Weil than we usually...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMensa Train Your Brain - Memory
Improve your powers of memory and recall and unlock your full potential with this brand-new title in Mensa's brain-training series. Mensa Train Your Brain - Memory is a full-colour book that guides you through eight chapters, each focused on your memory, how it works, and how you can both maintain and improve it. From tricks of visualisation and linking to...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMensa Challenge Your IQ Pack
A new edition of an interactive pack with over 200 puzzles, games and activities designed to give your brain the ultimate mental workout. This pack contains a set of ingenious games, puzzles and activities designed by Mensa, the international high IQ society, to hone your mental powers until they're razor sharp. There is a book containing a series of puzzles...Set$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksManifest Your Dreams: A Journal
This guided journal will take you on a journey of the mind and spirit to help you discover your inner joy, hone your gratitude, and help manifest your dreams. What you can visualize in your mind, you can hold in your hands. Manifest Your Dreams is a journal designed to help you become more optimistic, able to see more possibilities,...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLove by Design
A revelatory re-conceptualisation of how we create love – Dr Emily Nagoski We are so used to hearing that ‘love is blind’, ‘you will know when you meet the one’ and that love should be ‘unconditional’. However, are these idioms the best way to secure successful lasting relationships? Or might we have been given the wrong handbook for love? Dr...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLosing Ourselves
In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives, our relationships, and the world. Drawing on Indian and East Asian Buddhism, Daoism, Western philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience, Garfield shows why it is...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksJournal Therapy for Calming Anxiety
A 366-day journal filled with inspiring quotes, tips, and prompts, all utilising mindful journaling to understand, cope with, and overcome anxiety and stress in order to gain peace and clarity. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association, a staggering 40 million American adults struggle with anxiety, most of whom never receive treatment. The origins of anxiety can be complex and...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksJewish Universalisms
An original and comprehensive comparison of the universalisms of two major modern Jewish philosophers. Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic, and postcolonial outlook would balance the urgent current need for a universalistic perspective with the desire to maintain the richness of human diversity. The modern Jewish philosophers who sought to partake in the Enlightenment’s universalistic vision...Paperback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksJacques Lacan
Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2016 The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) have had a major influence on modern thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and densely conveyed. Lacan's detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness, and even incoherence; his psychoanalytic practice and his personal...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksI Will Give Thanks
God's goodness and grace abounds whether your heart is full or your needs are many. Discover how a spirit of gratitude brings peace and hope to your days in I Will Give Thanks, a 90-day devotional by author and illustrator Becky Shannon full of thoughtful reflections and beautiful original artwork. No matter the kind of day, messy or mundane, spending...Hardback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIt Starts with You
The secret to happiness is closer than you think… The truth is that everything we need is already inside us, we just need to unlock it. In It Starts with You, Lorena Bernal guides you on this transformative journey towards self-love, peace, and joy. With invaluable insights and practical takeaways, you’ll discover how to find self-acceptance, trust your intuition, and...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIsland
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are repositories of unique cultures and ways of living, seed banks built up in relative isolation. Island...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIntention
Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksIn Praise of Philosophy
What kind of philosophy do we need for the 21st century? To answer this question, Alain Badiou imagines a dialogue between Tocéras, an earnest and engaging professor, and various interlocutors from different countries and philosophical cultures – John After from Britain, Amantha from Greece, B’adj Akil from Senegal, Xi La Pong from China, and several others. Their conversation takes readers...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksImages of Childhood
Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence. Each chapter explores how visual elements such as framing, points-of-view, and lighting, as well as clothes, accessories, and body language, help to construct our many different conceptions of...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Understand and Deal with Health Anxiety
Understand and overcome your health anxiety with this practical, supportive and easy-to-read guide. Everyone worries about their health sometimes, but if you find yourself constantly overwhelmed, How to Understand and Deal with Health Anxiety is here to help. This friendly, accessible guide has all the information and advice you need to identify the source of your struggles. By learning the...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Think Like a Poet
An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us. How to Think Like a Poet explores how the greatest poets in history made the world anew and what we can learn from the magic, wisdom,...Hardback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Think - Creative Thinking Puzzles
Don't get stuck in a rut—unleash your ingenuity with these creative puzzles. Imaginative thinking helps you in all aspects of life. It allows you to become more resourceful at problem solving, or to develop unorthodox strategies for dealing with any situation that might come your way. These brain-training puzzles will teach you how to break out of the thought patterns...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow To Be Happy
We all have the capacity to be happy. There may be occasions in your life where this seems a challenging concept, however, there are some very definite things that you can do to make sure that you are happy more often than not. After all, happy people get sick less often, they have more energy, are more creative, sustain more...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksH.L.A. Hart
H.L.A. Hart is among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, with an especially great influence on the philosophy of law. His 1961 book The Concept of Law has become an enduring classic of legal philosophy and has also left a significant imprint on moral and political philosophy. In this volume, leading contemporary legal and political philosopher Matthew H....Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHere Comes the Sun
Let's look forward to sunnier times ahead The sun shines brightest after a storm - and sometimes it even comes with a rainbow. This cheerful collection of wise words and uplifting quotes is a powerful dose of positivity, and the tonic we all need right now. Full of sunny thoughts, pick-me-ups and happiness boosters, Here Comes the Sun will help...Hardback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGod Is Undead
The undead are neither alive nor dead. They are animate yet non-living. In God Is Undead, Lorenzo Chiesa and Adrian Johnston contend that true unbelief today sees the divine precisely as exemplifying such undeath. In God Is Undead, Chiesa and Johnston delve into and deepen the insights of both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis as regards unbelief. This analytic perspective reveals...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGod and Philosophy
In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Etienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence. God and Philosophy examines Greek, Christian, and modern philosophy, as well as the thinking that has grown out of our age of science, in this fundamental analysis...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGlitter
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter’s consumption and status have shifted across centuries—from ancient cosmetic to queer activist tool, environmental pollutant to biodegradable accessory—along with its composition, which has variously included insects, glass,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGlass
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it’s in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGerman Idealism
One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of idealism as a doctrine, Frederick Beiser exposes a strong objective, or realist, strain running from Kant to Hegel and...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksForeverism
What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose and protect it from time and the elements, and to eradicate the...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksFootball
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the “beautiful game” at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What’s right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world’s most popular sport—from...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFinding Joy in the Journey Journal
Plan your goals and find your peace every day of the year with guided meditations and journal prompts to keep you inspired and motivated. Find the Joy in the Journey: 365 Days of Planning My Goals is the ultimate guide for maintaining a schedule and collecting all of your thoughts in one space. There are 365 days' worth of journal...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFat
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavour. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the stereotype, fat is never sedentary: its definitions, identities, and meanings are manifold and in constant motion. Demonised in medicine...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFake
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia – from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEvery Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Keep hope in your heart, whatever the weather There's magic in making the best out of a bad situation, no matter what life throws your way. This little book of consoling quotes and cheerful sayings will get you looking on the bright side in no time. When reading Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining, you'll find that even in challenging...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEdmund Burke
Few thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political and intellectual life, Burke has been praised as a prophet who spied the terror latent in revolutionary or democratic ideologies, and condemned as a defender of social hierarchy and outmoded political institutions. Ross Carroll tempers these judgments by situating Burke’s arguments in relation to...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEdge of the Screen
This book is a series of seventeen meditations that revolve around the notion of the viewer’s placement at the edge of the screen. Every page is an opportunity to think about an aspect of film, or of film viewing, in new ways, and to begin reconsidering deeply ingrained ways of unthinkingly characterising and accounting for what it is that we...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDiving for Seahorses
What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory? Diving for Seahorses answers these questions and more, offering an illuminating look at one of our most fascinating faculties: our memory. Sisters Hilde and Ylva Østby—one an acclaimed writer, the other a neuropsychologist—skilfully interweave history, research, and personal stories in this fascinating exploration of the evolving...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDisrupt Everything
An inspirational personal development book from Sunday Times bestselling author James Patterson and renowned leadership expert Patrick Leddin, PhD, that shows readers how to proactively use disruption for positive change. The record-breaking literary legend - Mel Robbins The instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from James Patterson and renowned leadership expert Patrick Leddin, PhD, that shows readers how to proactively use...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDefuturing
“Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world – including design - dramatically changes. Defuturing as our condition forces the generation of a new philosophy of design.” With these thoughts, this book presents a radically new understanding of the...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCompact Disc
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage from analogue media,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCoffee
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee—it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing—the beverage, the break, the ritual—we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we who drink it allow ourselves...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksClaudia Jones
Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the twentieth century. Arguing for a socialist future and the total emancipation of working people, Jones’s legacy made an enduring mark on both sides of the Atlantic. This ground-breaking biography traces Jones’s remarkable life and work, beginning with her immigration to the United States...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksCinema Illuminating Reality
A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCell Tower
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fibreglass antennas, cell towers raise up high into the air the communications equipment that channels our calls, texts, and downloads. For security reasons, their locations are never advertised. But it’s our romantic...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBong Joon Ho
With the release of Parasite (2019), winner of the Palme d’Or and an Academy Award for Best Picture, the South Korean director Bong Joon Ho secured his place as one of his generation’s leading filmmakers. While scholars and critics have long appreciated his penetrating critique of Korean society and global capitalism, this book presents the first cohesive philosophical analysis of...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBodies of Water
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBlanket
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures. Curious, fearless,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBird
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious. Birds don’t express hope. They express themselves. But this tension between the versions of nature that...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBeyond the Final Whistle
Beyond the Final Whistle explores a new philosophy of football, showing how sport could lead to social change instead of propping up a hyper-consumerist and collapsing society. With a light touch, Vasilis Kostakis tackles the meaning of the beautiful game, exploring how it is produced and played, from the dribbles of a young Zapatista to the many goals of Messi....Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksBeyond Language
Beyond Language (Oltre il Linguaggio) is one of Italian philosopher Emmanuele Severino’s major works, wrestling with whether it’s possible to think meaningfully outside of the restrictions of language. Increasingly recognised as a truly foundational thinker in the formation of contemporary theory, Severino’s ideas around self-expression, forms of communication, and the limitations of language are brought to the fore in this...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAristotle
A thought-provoking exploration of assertiveness within Aristotle's work and how it affects democratic functioning. Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government. With this book, Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Aristotle's time and in ours, democrats want inclusiveness; they want...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksA Minute of Hope
Begin a journey of renewal and be strengthened by prayers that connect you to the heart of God—in just one minute. In a world that can crush your spirit, where burdens often weigh heavier than hope, A Minute of Hope, with prayers by Cristina Baker, invites you into a conversation with God that brings peace and strength that are only...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAmerican Dharma
This illuminating account of contemporary American Buddhism shows the remarkable ways the tradition has changed over the past generation. The past couple of decades have witnessed Buddhist communities both continuing the modernization of Buddhism and questioning some of its limitations. In this fascinating portrait of a rapidly changing religious landscape, Ann Gleig illuminates the aspirations and struggles of younger North...Hardback$7799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksAll at Once
A stunning poetry collection that offers solace and understanding. Jack Ridl's latest collection, All at Once, is structured as a lyrical collage that looks back at his eighty years of life in a rearview mirror. Nothing eludes this poet's attention, reflection, or unbridled joy. Ridl's poems, written in a direct style and tender voice, bring together mismatched meditations, leading us...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksAlfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock by Mark William Roche explores the subtle interplay between the cinematic genius of Hitchcock and the philosophical themes embedded within his films. As a director, Hitchcock was celebrated by audiences of all ages and achieved critical acclaim throughout his long career. His films provoke reflection on deep philosophical questions: What is evil, and how does it both hide...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAgainst Purity
In Against Purity, Alexis Shotwell proposes a powerful new conception of social movements as custodians for the past and incubators for liberated futures. Against Purity undertakes an analysis that draws on theories of race, disability, gender, and animal ethics as a foundation for an innovative approach to the politics and ethics of responding to systemic problems.Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAgainst Constitutionalism
A critical analysis of the transformation of constitutionalism from an increasingly irrelevant theory of limited government into the most influential philosophy of governance in the world today. Constitutionalism is universally commended because it has never been precisely defined. Martin Loughlin argues that it is not some vague amalgam of liberal aspirations but a specific and deeply contentious governing philosophy. An...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksAfraid
Provides a broad and entertaining overview of fear from evolution, to modern day challenges, and how clinicians treat trauma, anxiety, and PTSD today. About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural disasters. The news is full of stories about...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Face Drawn in Sand
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksAesthetics
The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper’s popular anthology features classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary. The second edition of this bestselling anthology collects essays of canonical significance in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. It features a wide range of topics from the nature of beauty and the criteria for aesthetic judgement to the value of...Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksAdventures in Theory
The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice called “theory” is to disturb everyone—to perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed understandings, all our familiar identities. An alternative to the typically large and unwieldy theory anthology, Adventures in Theory offers a manageably...Paperback$3958Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Concise History of Western Philosophy
A Concise History of Western Philosophy tells the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche. Mark Anderson presents a series of thought-provoking interpretations of its major figures. Anderson traces western thought through the conflict between the order of Being and the change of Becoming. Identifying Plato as the premiere philosopher of Being and Nietzsche as the peerless advocate...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Beautiful Homecoming
LaYinka, if you died today, what would your children have to say about you? This was the question LaYinka Sanni asked herself when she hit rock bottom many years ago. It was this question—and the uncomfortable answer that followed it—that inspired her to embark on a deeply personal journey of self-discovery, learning and, ultimately, homecoming. Honest, tender and wise, A...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks365 Days of Inspiration
Stimulate your mind 365 days of the year with this little book of tips and quotes. It'll supercharge you with a new lease of life, helping you to get the most out of every day. Inspiration is everywhere, but it's difficult to get creative sparks flying when you don't know where to begin. This little book is here to help...Hardback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks25 Keys to A Happy Life
In 25 Keys to A Happy Life, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar explains 25 keys that unlock genuine happiness, inner peace, and contentment. These principles are taken from the Qur'an and Sunnah and are timeless in their application and effectiveness.Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksZen in the Vernacular
Buddha’s core teachings explained in accessible, everyday language “A quietly uplifting, practical view of Buddhism.” — Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of daily life. Shares the author’s secular, vernacular interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, the Eightfold Path, and other fundamental...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWriting the Radical Memoir
For those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge assumptions about how we remember and tell the truth of our lives when we write about it. Innovative in approach and making new critical ideas accessible, each...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWhy I Am Not a Buddhist
Why I Am Not a Buddhist is a provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world’s most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favoured religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksWhere's Your Argument?
From first steps to final submission, this accessible guide takes students through each stage of the assignment-writing process and equips them with the skills they need to construct and develop convincing academic arguments. Concise and compact, it offers practical advice on forming ideas, structuring arguments, and finding your academic voice. The authors, both of whom are experienced in working directly...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWhen Conscience Calls
What is moral courage? Why is it important and what drives it? An argument for why we should care about moral courage and how it shapes the world around us. War, totalitarianism, pandemics, and political repression are among the many challenges and crises that force us to consider what humane people can do when the world falls apart. When tolerance...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksWhat Gender Should Be
What is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings. Developing an explicitly political version of conceptual engineering, What Gender Should Be contains novel...Paperback$4599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWhat Are Biblical Values?
What Are Biblical Values? by John Collins explores what the Bible actually says about many of today's most contentious moral issues. “For drawing attention to the relevant scriptures and for guidance in recognizing what are and aren’t valid interpretations of them, Collins’ pertinent brief is beyond praiseworthy.”— Booklist (starred review) “Collins pours a lifetime of scholarship into this study of...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksWhat Are Animal Rights For?
How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimise, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans treat the other animals with which we share the...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksUntil Our Lungs Give Out
A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences Title Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book." Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace. This interwoven collection...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTrench Coat
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think we know the trench coat, but where does it come from and where will it take us? From its origins in the trenches of WW1, this military outerwear came to project the inner-being of detectives, writers, reporters, rebels, artists, and intellectuals....Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThink Positive, Stay Positive
Stay at the top of your game and be your best self with the help of the empowering quotations and upbeat affirmations in this pocket-sized dose of winner's wisdom. With a positive mood and the right attitude, nothing can hold you back. Whatever your aims or ambitions in life, confident thoughts and good advice make all the difference. This little...Hardback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThinking Through Fashion
A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters and essential revisions throughout in light of key developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this comprehensive collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Worry Cure
Do you worry that you'll say the wrong thing, wear the wrong outfit, or look out of place? Or maybe that you'll make a mistake at work, disappoint your partner, or overlook a serious health problem? Or perhaps you just worry too much – constantly running what-if scenarios through your head? Of course you do – we all do. Worry...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksI'm Fine (But Not Really)
How many times have you said 'I'm fine' when you're anything but? Modern men are under pressure to be strong, silent and always in control. But what happens when this isn't true? Drawing on over twenty-five years of clinical experience, Dr Peter Meades confronts the silent crisis of men's mental health with unflinching honesty and deep compassion, bringing together real-life...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableOut 11 Aug 2026Pre-orderThe Therapeutic Powers of Play
A Clear, Unified Guide to Integrating Play Therapy Theory and Practice Ideal for professors, supervisors, trainers, and practising play therapists, this book offers an accessible, up-to-date synthesis of the Therapeutic Powers of Play across seminal theoretical approaches. Each chapter—written by the co-editors and leading experts—uses the same case study to show exactly how a given theory conceptualises the child and...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"
The Spirit of the Laws—Montesquieu’s huge, complex, and enormously influential work—is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values. In his penetrating analysis, Thomas L. Pangle brilliantly argues that the inherently theological project of Enlightenment liberalism is made more clearly—and more consequentially—in Spirit of...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks