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  • The Moral Circle
    Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritise humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. As a result, we use hundreds of billions of vertebrates and trillions of invertebrates every year for a variety of purposes, often unnecessarily. We also plan to use animals, AI systems, and other nonhumans at...
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  • The Misinformation Age
    The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know “Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.”—Kirkus Reviews Editors’ choice, New York Times Book Review   •  Recommended reading, Scientific American Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do...
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  • The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools
    This powerful book introduces core critical thinking concepts and principles as an empowering problem-solving framework for every profession, course of study, and indeed every area of life. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools distils the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder, targeting how to deconstruct thinking through the elements of reasoning and how to assess...
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  • The Mind in Exile
    A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States. In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as 'The greatest living man of letters,' Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where,...
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  • The Mind of a Mnemonist
    This study explores the inner world of a rare human phenomenon—a man who was endowed with virtually limitless powers of memory. From his intimate knowledge of S., the mnemonist, gained from conversations and testing over a period of almost thirty years, A. R. Luria is able to reveal in rich detail not only the obvious strengths of S.'s astonishing memory...
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  • The Mindful Workplace
    The Mindful Workplace offers a practical and theoretical guide to the benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in the workplace. It describes the latest neuroscience research into the effects of mindfulness training and details an eight-week mindfulness training course. Provides techniques which allow people in organisations to listen more attentively, communicate more clearly, manage stress, and foster strong relationships. Includes...
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  • The Methods of Ethics
    This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited. From the foreword by John Rawls: In the utilitarian tradition, Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) holds an important place. His fundamental work, The Methods of Ethics (first edition 1874, seventh and last edition 1907, here reprinted), is...
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  • The Middle Platonists
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  • The Method of Metaphor
    Both sides in controversies tend to claim that they have logic on their side. This book proposes that the interminable nature of these controversies suggests there is a problem with the main tool of logic, the syllogism. Drawing on contemporary developments in social theory and philosophy, Stanley Raffel argues that metaphors are not just aesthetic tools; they can also be...
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  • The Method of Equality
    The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings. So too are the unity of his work and the distinctive style of his thinking, despite the frequent disconnect between...
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  • The Metasphysics of Free Will
    The Metaphysics of Free Will provides a thorough statement of the major grounds for scepticism about the reality of free will and moral responsibility. The author identifies and explains the sort of control that is associated with personhood and accountability, and shows how it is consistent with causal determinism. In so doing, our view of ourselves as morally responsible agents...
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  • The Meaning of Thought
    From populist propaganda attacking knowledge as ‘fake news’ to the latest advances in artificial intelligence, human thought is under unprecedented attack today. If computers can do what humans can do and they can do it much faster, what’s so special about human thought? In this new book, bestselling philosopher Markus Gabriel steps back from the polemics to re-examine the very...
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  • The Meaning of Things
    'The unconsidered life is not worth living' - Socrates. Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be enlightening and uplifting. A life truly worth living is one that is informed and considered, so a degree of philosophical insight into the inevitabilities of the human...
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  • The Meaning of Human Existence
    In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on...
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  • The Meaning of Life
    The Meaning of Life by James Bailey is born out of a time when Bailey found himself unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In his desperate search for an answer, he decided to reach out to luminaries from all walks of life, posing them a single, profound question: What is the meaning of life? Then he waited....
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  • The Meaning of Anxiety
    The Meaning of Anxiety by Rollo May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the reader away from...
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  • The Marvelous Clouds
    When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we...
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  • The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
    The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of truth, aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists and orators....
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  • The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook
    Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science, free from value judgements. This book demonstrates this to be a myth – one which serves to make such textbooks not only off-puttingly bland, but also dangerously misleading in their justification of the status quo and neglect of alternatives. In this much-needed companion volume to the popular Microeconomics Anti-Textbook, Tony Myatt reveals...
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  • The Lukacs Reader
    One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs is the author of such classics as History of the Development of Modern Drama (1911), History and Class Consciousness (1923), and The Historical Novel (1937). Lukacs was a prolific writer with remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader, his biographer Arpad Kadarkay showcases the great range and...
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  • The Logical Syntax of Language
    Available for the first time in 20 years, here is Rudolf Carnap's famous "principle of tolerance", by which everyone is free to mix and match the rules of language and logic. In The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap explains how his entire theory of language structure came to him like a vision when he was ill. He postulates that concepts...
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  • The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy
    Available for the first time in 20 years, here are two important works from the 1920s by the best-known representative of the Vienna Circle. In The Logical Structure of the World, Carnap adopts the position of "methodological solipsism" and shows that it is possible to describe the world from the immediate data of experience. In his Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, he...
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  • The Logical Alien
    "A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be." - Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of Virginia Could there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic,...
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  • The Lives They Left Behind
    The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum—the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people lived...
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  • The Little Book of Sanuk
    We all need a little more sanuk in our lives Sanuk is a Thai concept that can loosely be translated as meaning ‘fun’. Though sanuk is in fact much more than that; it’s about achieving pleasure and joy in all aspects of life. For Thai people, if it’s not sanuk, it’s not worth doing. Thai people believe that it’s the...
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  • The Little Book of Ethics
    If you want to know your consequentialism from your deontology and your Aristotle from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the essentials of ethics Embark on a journey of introspection and critical thinking with The Little Book of Ethics. In its most basic form, ethics is about deciding what is right and what is wrong. This accessible...
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  • The Lions' Den
    The Lions' Den offers a lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself, including its conflicts with the Arab world. In this vibrant narrative of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism and subsequently with Israel and...
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  • The Linguistic Turn – Essays in Philosophical Method
    The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since. "All too rarely...
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  • The Life Cycle Completed
    For decades, Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with new material by Joan M. Erikson, is an expanded edition of his final work. The Life Cycle Completed eloquently closes the circle of Erikson's theories, outlining the unique rewards and challenges—for both individuals and society—of very old age....
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  • The Levinas Reader
    Emmanuel Levinas has served as Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and as the director of the École Normale Israélite Orientale. Through significant works like Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being, he has profoundly influenced twentieth-century continental philosophy, inspiring thinkers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray. The Levinas Reader collects, often for the first time in English, essays...
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  • The Laughter of the Thracian Woman
    An important work by 20th-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato’s Theaetetus dialogue. While focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles...
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  • The Kingdom and the Garden
    In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity's true nature. What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in The Kingdom and the Garden, Giorgio Agamben uses it as a...
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  • The Joy of Consent
    "From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, 'consent' is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a tool of liberation."—Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex A feminist philosopher argues that consent is not only a...
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  • Theism and Ultimate Explanation
    An expansive, yet succinct, analysis of the Philosophy of Religion – from metaphysics through theology. Organised into two sections, the text first examines truths concerning what is possible and what is necessary. These chapters lay the foundation for the book's second part – the search for a metaphysical framework that permits the possibility of an ultimate explanation that is correct...
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  • The Invention of Tomorrow
    A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future. Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet...
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  • The Invention of the Self
    This book is an examination of personal identity, exploring both who we think we are, and how we construct the sense of ourselves through art. It proposes that the notion of personal identity is a psycho-social construction that has evolved over many centuries. While this idea has been widely discussed in recent years, Andrew Spira approaches it from a completely...
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  • The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology
    In this startling original work of historical detection, Mark D. Jordan explores the invention of Sodomy by medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. This book is for everyone involved in the ongoing debate within organised religions and society in general over moral judgements of same-sex eroticism....
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  • The Internet of Us
    We used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopaedia shelf in search of answers. We just open our browsers, type in a few keywords, and wait for the information to come to us. Now firmly...
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  • The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Play
    The mental health field has seen a significant shift in the past decade toward including a neuroscience perspective when designing clinical interventions. However, for many play therapists, it has been challenging to apply this information in the context of play therapy. Here, Theresa Kestly teaches therapists how to understand the neurobiology of play experiences so the undeniable benefits of play...
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  • The Internet of Us
    The paradox confronting us today is that even as we know more and process information at a faster rate, we reason, think, and understand less. While a wealth of literature has been devoted to similar topics, the deep philosophical implications of this seismic shift have not been properly explored until now. Demonstrating that knowledge based on reason plays an essential...
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  • The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
    An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it - and explains why they have died today. Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original...
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  • The Intelligence of Evil
    In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called "clash of civilizations" between a capitalist West and a fundamentalist religious Islam, the book also provides a summation of...
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  • The Intellectual Lives of Children
    "A fascinating read for parents who wonder, simply, what is my child thinking? Why do they love collecting? Where did that idea come from? A celebration of children's innovation and sense of wonder." -Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better "A remarkable book. Whether you are an educator, parent, or simply a curious reader, you will come to see, hear, and...
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  • The Idea of World
    A philosophical exploration of what capitalistic societies truly mean for the individual. A short vade mecum for unrepentant materialism, The Idea of World collects three essays by Italian philosopher Paolo Virno that are intricately wrapped around one another. The first essay, “Mundanity,” attempts to clarify what the term “world,” as referred to as the perceptual and historical context of our...
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  • The Inner Life of the Counselor
    One of the greatest gifts helping professionals can share with others is a sense of their own peace. However, retaining and renewing a sense of a healthy perspective requires not only self-care strategies, but also an awareness of basic profound, yet simple, wisdom themes. The Inner Life of the Counselor presents classic and contemporary wisdom that examines and explores each...
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  • The Idea of Prison Abolition
    An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are extremely harsh. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as...
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  • The Infinite City
    ‘Glorious’ Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable’ SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors. He introduces us to thinkers like Thomas Spence, who threw coins stamped with the words ‘YOU FOOLS’ into the alleys of Holborn. To Ada Salter, who was the...
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  • The Incandescent
    The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres’ classic Humanism tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human. With his characteristic breadth of references, including art, poetry, science, philosophy, and literature, Serres paints a new picture of what it might mean to live meaningfully in contemporary society. He tells the story of humankind, from the...
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  • The Idea of a University
    Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has continued to engage readers with its timeless exploration of higher education. John Henry Newman raised significant issues, such as the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and professional education, the character of the academic community, the cultural role...
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  • The Idealized Mind
    A defense of scientific realism based on the role of idealization in the cognitive sciences. We study nature, including the mind and brain, by building scientific models. In The Idealized Mind, Michael Kirchhoff brings together ideas from the philosophy of cognitive science and the philosophy of science to reconcile scientific realism with model-based science. His defense of scientific realism—the view...
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  • The Hysterical Sublime
    Developing the concept of the hysterical sublime, first theorised by Fredric Jameson, to challenge posthumanist perspectives on the Anthropocene, this book facilitates the rethinking of universal and dialectical humanism as concepts for grappling with 21st-century capitalism. In recent years, posthumanist theories have been concerned with the overlapping dilemmas of global climate change, digital automation, and artificial intelligence, corresponding to the...
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  • The Hunger Games and Philosophy
    A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie. Katniss Everdeen is "the girl who was on fire," but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question authority, and rebel. The post-apocalyptic world of Panem's twelve districts is a divided society on the brink...
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  • The Human Animal
    The climate crisis has forced us to recognize that we are not separate from nature but are part of the natural world on which we depend: human beings are animals and we must understand much better our place in nature and our impact on our environment if we are to avoid our own annihilation as a species. And yet we...
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  • The Holy City of Antiracism
    Americans are more divided today than at any time since the Civil War. Our differences are not merely moral and political, but philosophical, and even spiritual. We hardly seem to experience the same reality anymore, preferring to self-select into media perception chambers whose projections vary according to political persuasion. Something has gone terribly wrong in the American political community. We...
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  • The Hobbit and Philosophy
    A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic—just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchanting "prequel" to The Lord of the Rings. With the help of some of history's great philosophers, this...
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  • The History of Ideas
    In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but champion a new approach to abolishing...
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  • The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader
    The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval, and modern texts and figures from...
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  • The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
    This title challenges the belief that the 18th century was essentially modern in its temper. Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that these philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to...
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  • The Healing Power of Emotion
    We are hardwired to connect with one another, and we connect through our emotions. Our brains, bodies, and minds are inseparable from the emotions that animate them. Normal human development relies on the cultivation of relationships with others to form and nurture the self-regulatory circuits that enable emotion to enrich, rather than enslave, our lives. Just as emotionally traumatic events...
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  • The Heidegger Dictionary
    A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title What does Heidegger mean by ‘Dasein’? What does he say in Being and Time? How does his phenomenology differ to that of his teacher, Husserl? Answering these questions and more, The Heidegger Dictionary provides students with all the tools they need to better understand one of the most influential yet complex philosophers of the...
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  • The Healing of Trauma during Pregnancy, Birth, and the First Years of Life
    The Healing of Trauma during Pregnancy, Birth, and the First Years of Life: From Dreaming to Being focuses on the inner world of the woman in the creative processes of pregnancy, birth, and early life and the healing of the traumas of this period. It provides an in-depth understanding of the Aboriginal woman during pregnancy, birth, and infancy, and explores...
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  • The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy
    Philosophers look beyond the sea of red dresses to reveal insights about gender inequality, religious oppression, power, and violence. In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers offer their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, plagued by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate,...
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  • The Happiness Fantasy
    In this devastatingly witty new book, The Happiness Fantasy, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. He argues that happiness is now defined by a desire to be "authentic", to experience physical pleasure, and to cultivate a quirky individuality. But over the...
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  • The Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution
    No matter your profession (attorney, clinician, family therapist) or skill level (seasoned professional or novice), The Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution is an invaluable resource that outlines the most effective mediation approaches, techniques, and skills. The Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution is a practical and comprehensive guide that includes: A review of professional ethics and standards Help for attorneys who...
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  • The Guilty Feminist
    The Sunday Times Bestseller 'This really is the "everything you have always wanted to know about feminism but were afraid to ask" manual. Essential reading for the planet' — Emma Thompson In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap,...
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  • The Greeks and the Rational
    This revisionist history traces an influential theory of practical reason from its origins in ancient Greece to its modern and contemporary permutations. The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature and a bug of our modern world. Countering arguments that rational...
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  • The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein
    'Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself' - Wittgenstein The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein by Peter Hacker explores how Wittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the inner', our subjective experience, and our knowledge of self and others. He challenged traditional conceptions of 'the outer' and human behaviour, revealing distortions in the perceived relationship between the inner...
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  • The Great Philosophers: Voltaire
    'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' Voltaire Voltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A prolific letter writer, he was also the author of over 2,000 books and pamphlets, including the novel...
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  • The Great Philosophers: Socrates
    'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.' So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of its founding father. Yet Socrates' influence was not so easily to be done away with. His words were lovingly recorded by his devoted...
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  • The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche
    'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself. Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a madman - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self. While the nineteenth century's coherent, consistent systems of certainty came crashing down ingloriously at the very...
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  • The Great Philosophers: Russell
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    'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.' 'What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned.' 'Education is the art of making man ethical.' Without Hegel, modern thought is unthinkable— all those whose ideas have...
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    Since the beginning of time, mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses and deciphers their fundamental ideas. Avoiding the technical jargon and complex logic associated with most books...
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  • The Great Mother
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Philosophy & Psychology

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

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

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