Spinoza and Politics
With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Étienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza's major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
A collection of Foucault’s lectures that trace the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at Victoria University in Toronto. In these lectures, which were part of his project of writing a genealogy of the modern subject, he is concerned with...Hardback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Speech Matters
To understand one another as individuals and to fulfil the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying and requires protection for free speech. Speech Matters makes a distinctive philosophical argument for the wrong...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Now in paperback, this collection of Foucault’s lectures traces the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at Victoria University in Toronto. In these lectures, which were part of his project of writing a genealogy of the modern subject, he is...Paperback$4599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Speaking for Others
A political philosopher dissects the duties and dilemmas of the unelected spokesperson, from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Greta Thunberg. Political representation is typically assumed to be the purview of formal institutions and elected officials. However, many of the people who represent us are not senators or city councillors—think of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malala Yousafzai, or even a neighbour...Hardback$9099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Spartakus
On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to class rule by the bourgeoisie. Massive demonstrations followed, and more than 500,000 Berliners took to the streets in January—only to be crushed by police and anticommunist paramilitary troops. Several leaders of the League were killed, and the revolt was quashed....Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Sources of the Self
In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious these resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order...Paperback$8099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Soul and Form
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation by addressing questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy
Brains before bullets – ancient and modern wisdom for “mechanics and motorcycle enthusiasts” Essential reading for fans of the show, this book takes readers deeper into the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, the Teller-Morrow family, and the ethics that surround their lives and activities. Provides fascinating moral insights into Sons of Anarchy, its key characters, plot lines, and ideas. Investigates...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Solitary
“When I testify in court, I am often asked: ‘What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?’ . . . Many prisoners emerge from prison after years in solitary with very serious psychiatric symptoms even though outwardly they may appear emotionally stable. The damage from isolation is dreadfully real.” —Terry Allen Kupers Imagine spending nearly twenty-four hours a day alone,...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Socratic Logic 3.1e – Socratic Method Platonic Questions
This new and revised edition of Peter Kreeft’s Socratic Logic is updated, adding new exercises and more complete examples, all with Kreeft’s characteristic clarity and wit. Since its introduction in the spring of 2004, Socratic Logic has proven to be a different type of logic text: (1) This is the only complete system of classical Aristotelian logic in print. The...Hardback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Social Psychology of Helping Relations
Examines the major aspects of giving and receiving help in interpersonal and intergroup relations This unique book extends the traditional emphasis on interpersonal help-giving to consider a wider spectrum of interpersonal and intergroup helping relations. Help giving is viewed as reflecting people's care for others, while dependency on help and giving help imply lower and higher places on the social...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Social Psychology
Social Psychology is now available as a Norton Illumine Ebook, using active learning to help develop students' scientific thinking skills. Led by Tom Gilovich, the award-winning author team challenges students to think critically about the concepts, controversies, and applications of social psychology. The Sixth Edition is thoroughly updated with current research and fresh examples and includes a new chapter, "Living...Set$18299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction
A broad, synthetic philosophy of nature focused on human sociality. In this book, Joseph Rouse takes his innovative work to the next level by articulating an integrated philosophy of society as part of nature. He shows how and why we ought to unite our biological conception of human beings as animals with our sociocultural and psychological conceptions of human beings...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Social Cognitive Theory
A comprehensive perspective on human nature by one of the undisputed masters of the psychological sciences. The final book by psychology's most eminent modern figure, Dr. Albert Bandura, is the definitive concise presentation of his theoretical views. In Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature, Bandura explains how his half-century of research and theory on the determinants of...Paperback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Smellosophy
An NRC Handelsblad Book of the Year "This is a special book. It teaches readers a lot about olfaction. It teaches us even more about what philosophy can be." - Times Literary Supplement "Lively, authoritative. Aims to rehabilitate smell's neglected and marginalised status." - Wall Street Journal "Barwich argues that we could discover far more about consciousness if we would...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Slow Philosophy
In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker argues that philosophy involves the patient work...Paperback$5899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Slow Down
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Accessible and convincing' - Sally Rooney Capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment. Therefore, argues award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito, the future must belong to a new form of communism, the only fair and humane existence the limits of nature can support. Drawing on a revelatory new reading...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Simply Psychology
The clearest, simplest introduction to psychology ever published. Grasping complex psychological ideas has never been easier. Transforming complicated ideas into easy-to-understand graphics, supported by accessible text, Simply Psychology is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. Covering the key psychological theories from moral development to cognitive behavioural therapy, each easy-to-read,...Hardback$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sikh Philosophy
Sikh Philosophy, one of the major spiritual-philosophical traditions of India, is often missing from discussions of cross-cultural philosophy. In this introduction, Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, an internationally acknowledged expert in Sikh studies, provides the first rigorous engagement in the West with Sikh philosophy. Sensitive both to the historical formation of Sikh thought, and to the decolonial context in which he writes,...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers (riverrun editions)
Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers This collection focuses on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. It includes his papers on metapsychology, applied psychoanalysis, and technique. Within these broader categories are subjects...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Should We All Be Vegan?
The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards As concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical implications of intensive factory farming, an increasing number of us are embracing diets and lifestyles free from animal products. Has the time now arrived for us all to reject the exploitation of animals completely and become vegan?...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?
In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs. But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping...Hardback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Shadows into Light
A twenty-plus-year study of former child soldiers offers far-reaching insight into mental health and resilience after extreme trauma. During the civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002, an estimated 20,000 children were forced to join the fighting. As villages were raided and youths rounded up, it was not uncommon for a child to be ordered to kill...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Sexual Fluidity
Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various...Paperback$7399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
“Kenrick writes like a dream.” - Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University, author of A Primate's Memoir and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers What do sex and murder have to do with the meaning of life? Everything. In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick exposes the selfish, animalistic underside of human nature,...Paperback$7700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Sex in the Brain
What controls our sex lives? Our brains. Yet there is surprisingly little research into the ways our brains influence our sex drive. Extraordinary insights into how the brain works can be gained when something goes wrong through brain injury or disease. In Sex in the Brain, clinical neuropsychologist Dr Amee Baird takes readers on an entertaining and informative tour of...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sexed
Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded “LIBERTY FOR EVER!”, Victorian petitioners who expected to be dead before women won the vote, and rival camps of suffragists who embraced and rejected violence. She considers the contributions...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering
It’s right there in the Book of Job: “Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition—which leads to a question that has proved just as inescapable throughout the centuries: Why? Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is there any point to our pain, physical or emotional?...Hardback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Set Fear on Fire
After the feminist art collective LASTESIS created their performance A Rapist in Your Path in their native Chile, it went viral across the globe, becoming the anthem of the grassroots feminist movements in South America and around the world. Set Fear on Fire is their manifesto, an angry, unrepentant tour-de-force that moves through rage, femicide, abortion, homophobia, feminist art, and...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital
A much-needed, Marxist economic account of service and retail work, as well as the political alternatives. In Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital, Fabian van Onzen uses Marxist theory to analyse the process by which service and retail workers are exploited by the capitalist class. His analysis takes us through the primary concepts of Marxism—surplus-value, commodity form, etc.—and...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sensorimotor Control and Learning
A comprehensive introduction for undergraduate students. Principals of Sensorimotor Control and Learning presents an integrated picture of sensorimotor behaviour. It provides integrated coverage of: brain and behaviour, perception and action, theory and experiment, performance (kinematics and kinetics of behaviour) and outcomes.Hardback$19495Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity
A leading German philosopher offers his most ambitious work yet on the nature of knowledge, arguing that being wrong about things defines the human condition. For millennia, philosophers have dedicated themselves to advancing understanding of the nature of truth and reality. In the process, they have amassed a great deal of epistemological theory—knowledge about knowledge. However, negative epistemological phenomena, such...Hardback$9099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Self-Portrait in the Studio
A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the Studio—a familiar iconographic subject in the history of painting—is intended to be taken literally: the book is a self-portrait, but one that comes into view for the reader only by way of patient scrutiny of the images, photographs,...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Self-Improvement
We are obsessed with self-improvement; it's a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. Obsessed with the endless task of perfecting ourselves, we have become restless, anxious, and desperate. We are improving ourselves to death. The culture of self-improvement stems from philosophical classics, perfectionist religions, and a ruthless strain of capitalism—but today,...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Self-Defense
Is violent self-defence ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, and capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenceless. In 1685, for example, France's infamous "Code Noir" forbade slaves from carrying weapons, under penalty of the whip. In nineteenth-century Algeria, the colonial state outlawed the...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Self-Deception
With a new chapter This new edition of Herbert Fingarette's classic study in philosophical psychology now includes a provocative recent essay on the topic by the author. A seminal work, the book has deeply influenced the fields of philosophy, ethics, psychology, and cognitive science, and it remains an important focal point for the large body of literature on self-deception that...Paperback$5099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Selections from Ovid
This Focus Classical Reprint of Selections from Ovid offers a classic reader on Ovid from Charles W. Dunmore, professor emeritus at New York University. The text contains extensive selections from Ovid's primary works, all in Latin, with commentary and a full vocabulary. Selections are taken from Metamorphoses, the Fasti, Heroides, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, Amores, and Ars Amatoria.Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication
Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his contemporaries and colleagues associated with the Frankfurt School. Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication brings together a...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Selected Exaggerations
Peter Sloterdijk’s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over thirty conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life and work. In these wide-ranging dialogues, Sloterdijk shares his views on a variety of topics, from doping to doxa, design to dogma,...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Seinfeld and Philosophy
Designed for philosophers as well as readers with no particular philosophical background, the essays in this lively book are grouped into four amusing acts. Act One looks at the four Seinfeld characters through a philosophical lens and includes Jerry and Socrates: The Examined Life? Act Two examines historical philosophers from a Seinfeldian standpoint and offers Plato or Nietzsche? Time, Essence,...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Seeing the Invisible
Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organised around the theme of life. In contrast to the scientific understanding of life as a biological process, Henry's philosophy develops a conception of life as an immediate feeling of one's own living. Seeing the Invisible marks Henry's most sustained...Paperback$13000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Secure Relating
Secure Relating offers a refreshing and innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in today's increasingly polarised world. Drawing on over thirty years of professional clinical experience, authors Ann Kelley, Ph.D and Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP integrate modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and depth psychology into practical tools for deepening self-awareness and navigating closeness with strength in even the most...Hardback$6799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Science and the Good
Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The “new moral science” led by such figures as E. O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland, Sam Harris,...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Schopenhauer's Porcupines
"Deborah Anna Luepnitz has written a masterpiece about the living, breathing relationship of psychotherapist and client." -- Linda Austin, M.D., author of What's Holding You Back. Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines she recounts five true stories from her...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer's reputation as a cynic and a misanthrope often obscures the humanity and complexity of his philosophy. In this innovative volume, Robert Wicks breaks away from the accepted oversimplification of Schopenhauer as an incurable pessimist, to present an insightful portrait of his life and work. Beginning with a look at his early life and the circumstances and people that...Paperback$10900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Schizophrenia
Throughout the world, schizophrenia is a diagnosis now in decline, representing a radical shift in our historical and medical understanding of madness and mental distress. But what does this medical term, first coined by a Swiss psychiatrist in 1908, mean? And why is it increasingly unpopular among patients and the medical establishment? Historian and clinician Orna Ophir unearths the stories...Hardback$12199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Scarcely English
An A-Z of terrible English by the Telegraph’s former master grammarian. The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules, in an era...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Saving Beauty
Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Saturday Night Live and Philosophy
This hilarious cast of star philosophers will make you laugh while you think as they explore the moral conundrums, ridiculous paradoxes, and wild implications of Saturday Night Live. Comedian-philosophers from Socrates to Sartre have always prodded and provoked us, critiquing our most sacred institutions and urging us to examine ourselves in the process. In Saturday Night Live and Philosophy, a...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Sad Love
As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated. Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction, and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can let us down badly. And the ways we love...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Running and Philosophy
A unique anthology of essays exploring the philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run. It features writings from some of America's leading philosophers, including Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taliaferro, and J.P. Moreland. Running and Philosophy is a first-of-its-kind collection of essays exploring those gems of philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run. Topics considered include running and...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Rousseau's God
A landmark study of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought. John T. Scott offers a comprehensive interpretation of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought, both in its own right and in relation to Rousseau’s broader oeuvre. In chapters focused on different key writings, Scott reveals recurrent themes in Rousseau’s views on the subject and traces their evolution over time. He shows that...Hardback$18899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Rousseau's God
A landmark study of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought. John T. Scott offers a comprehensive interpretation of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought, both in its own right and in relation to Rousseau’s broader oeuvre. In chapters focused on different key writings, Scott reveals recurrent themes in Rousseau’s views on the subject and traces their evolution over time. He shows that...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory. In this book, Céline Spector, one of the world’s foremost experts on Rousseau’s thought, provides an accessible introduction to his moral, social and political theory. She explores the themes and central concepts of his thought,...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Rooted
Included in ABR's Books of the Year 2020 Bugger, rooted, bloody oath... What is it about Australians and swearing? We've got an international reputation for using bad language and letting rip with a choice swear word or two. From the defiant curses of the convicts to the humour of Kath & Kim, Amanda Laugesen, Chief Editor of the Australian National...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Romantic Agency
This is a book for people energised by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place by insecurities and social pressures. In Romantic Agency, philosopher Luke Brunning encourages readers to think more deeply about...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Right and Wrong
In modern Western societies, we are presented with a huge array of choices and encouraged to believe that having the freedom to choose sets us on the path to happiness. Yet, as renowned social commentator Hugh Mackay shows in Right and Wrong: How to Decide for Yourself, freedom to choose is no freedom at all unless it is accompanied by...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Right Brain Psychotherapy
An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and interactive regulation of affects between minds and brains. This book offers evidence that emotional interactions reflect right-brain-to-right-brain affective communication. Essential reading for those trying to understand one-person psychology as well as two-person...Hardback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Richer and More Equal
Once there were princes and peasants and very few in between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for the better over the past century. As Daniel Waldenström makes clear in this authoritative account of wealth accumulation and inequality in the modern west,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Ricardo’s Dream
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from? Ricardo's Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith's only real rival as the 'founder of economics'. The wealthiest stock trader of his day, Ricardo introduced the study of abstract models to economics....Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Rhythmanalysis
Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms—both biological and social—Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life. With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media, and the city. In doing so,...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Revolution at Point Zero (2nd. Edition)
Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorising on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organisation of work and the contradictions...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity
Since antiquity, philosophy and rhetoric have traditionally been cast as rivals, with the former often lauded as a search for logical truth and the latter usually disparaged as empty speech. But in this erudite intellectual history, Nancy S. Struever stakes out a claim for rhetoric as the more productive form of inquiry. Struever views rhetoric through the lens of modality,...Hardback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Retrieving the Ancients
Provides an accessible introduction to ancient Greek philosophy, enhanced with new features and content Retrieving the Ancients offers a clear and engaging narrative of one of the most fertile periods in the history of human thought, beginning with the Ionian Philosophers of the sixth century and concluding with the works of Aristotle. Organized chronologically, this student-friendly textbook approaches Greek philosophy...Paperback$8099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Rethinking Emancipation
Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and normalization? In order to address this question, Jacques Rancière pays close attention to the sociopolitical rhythms of our time, listening for the figures of trembling and oscillation...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Rethinking Dwelling
Over the last twenty years, Jeff Malpas’ research has involved his engagement with architects and other academics around the issues of place, architecture, and landscape, particularly the way these practitioners have used the work of Martin Heidegger. In Rethinking Dwelling, Malpas’ primary focus is to rethink these issues in a way that is directly informed by an understanding of place...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Rethinking Culture in Health Communication
Rethinking Culture in Health Communication An interdisciplinary overview of health communication using a cultural lens—uniquely focused on social interactions in health contexts Patients, health professionals, and policymakers embody cultural constructs that impact healthcare processes. Rethinking Culture in Health Communication explores the ways in which culture influences healthcare, introducing new approaches to understanding social relationships and health policies as a dynamic...Paperback$13899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Research in Psychology
An approachable, coherent, and important text, Research in Psychology: Methods and Design, 8th Edition continues to provide its readers with a clear, concise look at psychological science, experimental methods, and correlational research in this newly updated version. Rounded out with helpful learning aids, step-by-step instructions, and detailed examples of real research studies, the material is easy to read and student-friendly....Paperback$17399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Republic, Volume II
Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family around 427 BCE. In his early life, he was an admirer of Socrates. Plato later founded the first institution of higher learning in the West, the Academy, among whose...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Republic
Republic offers readers more than just a seminal philosophical text; it is accompanied by a variety of helpful tools for a deeper understanding. This edition includes a select bibliography for further reading and research. Additionally, it provides a synopsis of each book within Republic, allowing readers to grasp the core ideas and themes at a glance. To aid in comprehending...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Reparative Aesthetics
By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who, against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative. The winner...Paperback$6399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Rén
A beautiful look at the Ancient Chinese philosophy of Ren and how it can help us with our hectic modern lives. The Chinese character for Ren combines the word for 'person' and the number 'two', representing human connection. In the teachings of ancient philosopher Confucius, Ren is the study of our relationship with those around us. In this accessible and...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume 1
"These two volumes must be welcomed in particular for the illumination they shed ... on Wittgenstein's already published discussions ... the characteristic deluge of examples, analogies, questions and challenges is as ever, maddening, provoking and thought-provoking, and with the earlier-published works they constitute not just the most detailed but also the best treatment of these profoundly important issues." Kathleen Wilkes,...Paperback$9799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Remarks on Colour
This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features of different colours, of different kinds of colour (metallic colour, the colours of flames, etc.) and of...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Regime Change
Classical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy, creating an order in which individuals could create their own identities and futures. To some extent, it did—but it has also demolished the traditions and institutions that nourished ordinary people and created a new and exploitative ruling class. This class's economic libertarianism, progressive values, and technocratic commitments have led them to rule...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Reflections on Aristotle's Politics
Mogens Herman Hansen is a renowned classics scholar and a leading authority on Athenian democracy and the ancient Greek city-state. Reflections on Aristotle’s Politics collects, revises, and expands on Hansen’s expert understandings of this fundamental text on politics. Addressing old controversies with fresh perspectives and treating issues that have previously been ignored or neglected, Hansen sheds new light on a...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Reason in Nature
A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell's arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that can explain what is special about human reason without implying that it is in any sense supernatural. John McDowell is one of the English-speaking world's most influential living philosophers, whose work has shaped debates in mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the history of...Hardback$9099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Reason and Resonance
How the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality. Hearing has traditionally been regarded as the second sense—as somehow less rational and less modern than the first sense, sight. Reason and Resonance explodes this myth by reconstructing the process through which the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality. For...Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Reality and Its Dreams
Raymond Geuss is one of the most inventive and distinctive voices in contemporary political philosophy and a trenchant critic of the field's dominant assumptions. In Reality and Its Dreams, he challenges the "normative turn" in political philosophy—the idea that the right approach to politics is to start from thinking abstractly about our own normative views and then, when they have...Hardback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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