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  • Real
    Real salutes what the world has to offer. This visually stunning, thought-provoking book is about looking around with awareness, noticing life's quiet details and knowing that the honesty of time changes everything - from a human face, a family home, or a fragile sampler book of antique lace. Real is about the agelessness of integrity; appreciating the imperfect; beauty and...
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  • Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
    The third edition of Ivanhoe and Van Norden's acclaimed anthology builds on the strengths of previous editions with the addition of new selections for each chapter: selections from Shen Dao; a new translation of the writings of Han Feizi; selections from two texts, highly influential in later Chinese philosophy, the Great Learning and Mean; and a complete translation of the...
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  • Readings in Infancy
    Nobody knows how to write. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy...
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  • Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy
    The Fifth Edition of Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy features a completely revised Aristotle unit, with new translations, as well as a newly revised glossary. The Plato unit offers new translations of the Meno and Republic. In the latter, indirect dialogue is cast into direct dialogue for greater readability. The Presocratics unit has been re-edited and streamlined, and the pages...
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  • Reading Philosophy
    A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts. Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about...
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  • Reading Parfit
    When it was first published in 1984, Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons was heralded as one of the most significant achievements in moral philosophy to have appeared in recent times. Now, Reading Parfit brings together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to discuss and critique each of the four parts of this outstanding work, and present a...
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  • Reading Negri
    Antonio Negri is known in the English-speaking world primarily through his collaborations with Michael Hardt; Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth have become some of the most widely discussed political works of recent times. Here, Reading Negri unravels the ideas and life of the man whose work has become a rallying point for students, workers, and intellectuals opposing capitalist globalization. It also...
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  • Reading Metaphysics
    This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary, helping readers engage with the texts critically and use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context. Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, encouraging them to...
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  • Reading Leo Strauss
    Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, however, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy—perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in...
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  • Rationality Through Reasoning
    Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do. It is built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality, and reasoning that differs significantly from much existing philosophical thinking. Key Features: Develops an original account of normativity, rationality, and reasoning that is significantly different from the majority of existing...
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  • Rare Tongues
    An enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world. From the whistling languages of La Gomera in the Canary Islands and the Hmong people in East and Southeast Asia, to the wars and clashes in Sri Lanka and the conservation efforts in Hawaii and New Zealand, Rare Tongues draws attention to how language and culture are becoming increasingly homogenous,...
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  • Rapture
    What is it like to experience rapture? For philosopher Christopher Hamilton, it is a loss of self that is also a return to self—an overflowing and emptying out of the self that also nourishes and fills the self. In this inviting book, he reflects on the nature of rapture and its crucial yet unacknowledged place in our lives. Hamilton explores...
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  • Ranciere Now
    The French philosopher Jacques Rancière is well known across the world for his groundbreaking contributions to aesthetic and political theory and for his radical rethinking of the question of equality. This much-needed new collection situates Rancière's thought in a range of practical and theoretical contexts. These specially commissioned essays cover the complete history of Rancière's work and reflect its interdisciplinary...
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  • Raising Resilient Children with a Borderline or Narcissistic Parent
    Being partnered with a narcissist or borderline personality can be hard enough, but learning how to shield children from the fallout is paramount. Here, the authors show readers how to manage parenting when a narcissistic or borderline partner is part of the equation. Life in a narcissistic family system is at best challenging, and too often filled with chaos, isolation,...
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  • Radical Sacrifice
    A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude,...
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  • Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art
    Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions. Using psychoanalysis and object-oriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch delves into the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology. Moscovitch suggests that intimacy has played an under-appreciated role in...
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  • Radical Hope
    Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." It is precisely this point—that of a people faced with...
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  • Race
    The third edition of Race: A Philosophical Introduction continues to provide the definitive guide to a topic of major contemporary importance. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume, Paul Taylor outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, while engaging with the ideas of important figures such as Linda Alcoff, K. Anthony Appiah, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault,...
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  • Race
    Although historians and literary theorists have long participated in discussions about race, it is only recently that philosophers have returned to the topic. The main focus of their attention has been the question of what one means by race now that its biological basis has been discredited, and under what conditions a non-essentialist concept of race can be sustained. This...
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  • Quine’s Philosophy
    W.V. Quine is one of the leading figures of 20th-century analytic philosophy, and still among the most influential. Yet, his work can be challenging and complex, and indeed, often misunderstood. In this updated introduction to Quine’s thought, Gary Kemp examines his seemingly disparate views as a unified whole and offers a valuable guide for anyone approaching Quine for the first...
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  • Quine
    This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Hookway traces the development of Quine's work...
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  • Quid Pro Quo
    In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient world, including science, religion, military matters, politics, and literature, Jones...
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  • Question Everything
    When The Stone Reader—a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy column—first published in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact rhetoric. Now, as disinformation continues to run rampant and our rights are increasingly called into question,...
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  • Question Authority
    Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism. Question authority, the popular 1960s slogan commanded. "Think for yourself." But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase, playful in logic but serious in intent, has become a practical paradox. Yesterday's social critics are the tone-policing tyrants of today, while those who claim "colourblindness" see no need...
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  • Puzzled?!
    Each chapter begins with a traditional argument of a thoroughly puzzling kind: a valid philosophical argument with highly plausible premises but a surprising conclusion. The remainder of the chapter shows how major innovations in the history of philosophy arise as logical responses to that argument. Written with a light touch, Puzzled?! nevertheless offers a rigorous introduction to the ideas it...
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  • Pure Theory of Law
    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived programme, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967. Pure Theory...
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  • Pure Immanence
    The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply a life. They capture a problem that runs throughout his work—his long search for a new and superior empiricism. Announced in his first book, on David Hume, then taking off with his early studies...
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  • PsyWar
    PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order exposes the history and tactics of modern psychological warfare on the American people and offers a way forward for citizens to resist totalitarian control. PsyWar is when a government coordinates and directs deployment of propaganda, censorship, and psychological operations (psyops) tools in campaigns designed to manipulate public opinion. The authors address critical topics including:...
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  • Psychosis and Spirituality
    The new edition of this successful text builds on the very latest research to present an original and unique exploration of the psychology of both spirituality and psychosis. The editor brings together fascinating perspectives from a broad range of distinguished contributors. This new edition covers the most recent body of research, both qualitative and quantitative, in its exploration of the...
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  • Psychopathology and Mental Distress
    Selected as a 2024 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice This groundbreaking textbook offers a comprehensive overview of different approaches to the causes, assessment and treatment of psychological disorders. The book includes important diagnostic frameworks, such as the new DSM-5-TR, ICD-11, and PDM. It also expands the scope of coverage beyond mainstream psychiatric models to include psychological, biological, historical, sociocultural, and...
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  • Psychopathology
    A modern take on adult disorders, incorporating context, research, and more. Psychopathology provides unique, state-of-the-art coverage of adult psychopathology as categorical, evidence-based, and continuously evolving. Comprehensive coverage features a detailed examination of DSM disorders, including description, epidemiology, prevalence, consequences, neurobiological and translational research, treatment, and more, with each chapter written by an expert in the field. Mapped to the DSM-5,...
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  • Psychometric Testing
    Psychometric Testing offers an in-depth examination of the strengths and limitations of psychometric testing, with coverage of diverse methods of test development and application. A state-of-the-art exploration of the contemporary field of psychometric testing, bringing together the latest theory and evidence-based practice from 21 global experts. It explores a variety of topics related to the field, including test construction, use...
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  • Psychology Research Methods, 1st Edition
    An appealing, understandable and engaging resource, the first edition of Psychology Research Methods offers students a clear, concise look at psychological science, experimental methods, correlational research, statistics and more. This product also includes an emphasis on research ethics; how the APA’s most recent code of ethics is applied to research, and the issue of scientific fraud. Rounded out with helpful...
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  • Psychology of Women and Gender
    Providing a lens for interpreting the ever-changing issues that influence girls, women, and trans and/or gender-nonbinary individuals today, Psychology of Women and Gender 2e incorporates an intersectional lens throughout the text. It expands the idea of gender by challenging assumptions of a gender binary and includes additional focus on the experiences of men. The new edition is grounded in both...
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  • Psychology of Personality
    Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and Applications introduces students to many important figures in the field, including Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson, Maslow, Allport, Cattell, Bandura, Mischel, and others. The book not only covers classic issues and research in personality, but also explores genetics and personality, neurological considerations in personality, the evolutionary perspective, the Big Five model of personality, and...
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  • Psychology in Everyday Life
    Psychology in Everyday Life is a complete resource for students at all levels. David Myers and Nathan DeWall work on the text and corresponding LaunchPad content, ensuring a tight connection between all aspects of the course. This edition is heavily updated to reflect the latest in psychological science and to further emphasise the value of thinking critically, considering diverse perspectives,...
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  • Psychology for VCE Units 3 and 4, 8e learnON and Print
    Jacaranda Psychology VCE Units 3 and 4 Everything your students need to succeed. Victoria's most trusted VCE Psychology resource, streamlined. Expert author, John Grivas, provides essential knowledge and clear guidance to help you navigate the new Study Design and get students exam ready. Get exam ready: past VCAA exam questions (all since 2013) Students can start preparing from lesson one,...
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  • Psychology for VCE Units 1 and 2, 9e learnON & Print
    Jacaranda Psychology VCE Units 1 and 2 Everything your students need to succeed. Victoria's most trusted VCE Psychology resource, streamlined. Expert author, John Grivas, provides essential knowledge and clear guidance to help you navigate the new Study Design and get students exam ready. Get exam ready: past VCAA exam questions (all since 2013) Students can start preparing from lesson one,...
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  • Psychology for Lawyers
    Law is a profession centred on human interaction. Virtually every aspect of the practice of law can be enhanced by a well-grounded understanding of psychology—the science of how people think, feel, and behave. Lawyers who harness the insights of psychology will be more effective interviewers and counsellors, engage in more successful negotiations, conduct more efficient and useful discovery, communicate more...
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  • Psychology: A Complete Introduction
    Written by Dr Sandi Mann, Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features like summaries of key...
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  • Psychology 101
    A look at 101 of the key issues that underpin our understanding of modern psychology - from addiction and body language, through to self-esteem and work ethics. Psychologists have always shone a torch, and often a spotlight, into many dark corners of the human mind. They study everything, from art preferences to altruism, coaching to criminality, jokes and humour to...
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  • Psychology
    This bestselling textbook brings the latest developments in psychology to students in a signature writing style that will inspire a lifelong love of science. The authors—respected researchers and popular writers—invite students to join them on a tour of their favourite subject: psychological science. The new edition takes a closer look at the role psychology plays in our society, with new...
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  • Psychological Science Under Scrutiny
    Psychological Science Under Scrutiny explores a range of contemporary challenges to the assumptions and methodologies of psychology, in order to encourage debate and ground the discipline in solid science. Discusses the pointed challenges posed by critics to the field of psychological research, which have given pause to psychological researchers across a broad spectrum of sub-fields. Argues that those conducting psychological...
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  • Psychological Interventions in Early Psychosis
    Psychological Interventions in Early Psychosis provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging research and clinical evidence base for psychological treatments across the phases of early psychosis. Beginning with identified at-risk young people, the text continues through to those in acute and recovery phases, to the needs of patients with persistent symptoms. This practical treatment handbook: Draws upon the expertise of...
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  • Psychological Science
    W. W. Norton is excited to announce that award-winning authors Elizabeth Phelps and Elliot Berkman will bring their ideas and energy to Psychological Science 7e. Our authors are committed to encouraging students to learn and evaluate psychology through the lens of methods, replication, and the open science era. Looking beyond the text, Liz and Elliot applied their experience with the...
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  • Psychobiology
    Psychobiology provides a comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the study of psychobiology and the key concepts, topics, and research that are core to understanding the brain and the biological basis of our behaviour. Assuming no prior knowledge of biology, the text emphasises the interaction of psychobiology with other core areas of psychology and disciplines. Through the use of exciting and...
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  • Psychoanalysis and Religion
    “A daring book to have cast into the midst of the world’s excitements, for it will itself breed new excitements. . . . It is not a book to be missed by those interested in man’s spiritual growth.”—New York Times A noted psychoanalyst assesses the modern issue between traditional religion and a philosophy that takes as the sole aim in...
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  • Protagoras
    Protagoras by Plato, translated by Lombardo and Bell, is an important early dialogue that explores virtue, wisdom, and the nature of Sophistic teaching. The translation is noted for its liveliness and subtlety, bringing new life to a classic philosophical text. In addition, Michael Frede has provided a substantial introduction that illuminates the dialogue's enduring interest. He delves into the Athenian...
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  • Prophetic Culture
    Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life....
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  • Property-Owning Democracy
    Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philosopher John Rawls' idea of a property-owning democracy. Offers new and essential insights into Rawls' idea of "property-owning democracy". Addresses the proposed political and economic institutions and policies which Rawls' theory would require. Considers radical alternatives to existing forms of capitalism....
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  • Property
    Few political ideas are as divisive and controversial for some – and yet taken for granted by others – as the ownership of private property. For its defenders, private ownership is a fundamental right that protects individual freedom and ensures wider economic benefits for the community; for its critics, by contrast, property is institutionalised theft, responsible for lamentable levels of...
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  • Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
    This edition of Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics includes Kant's letter of February 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.
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  • Profanations
    Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains. The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel,...
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  • Process and Aesthetics
    A groundbreaking analysis of Alfred North Whitehead’s thinking on aesthetics. Though philosopher Alfred North Whitehead did not dedicate any books or articles specifically to aesthetics, aesthetic motifs nonetheless permeate his entire body of work. Despite this, aestheticians have devoted little attention to Whitehead. In Process and Aesthetics, four scholars of aesthetics provide another angle from which Whiteheadian aesthetics might be...
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  • Probability
    When a doctor tells you there’s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important if we are to make good theoretical and practical choices. In this engaging and highly accessible introduction to the philosophy of...
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  • Problems in Philosophy
    This advanced introductory text offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori, and knowledge. The emphasis is on the fundamental intractability of these questions, and a theory is proposed as to why the human mind has so much difficulty in resolving them. This theory turns upon a naturalistic...
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  • Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
    During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English,...
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  • Private Government
    Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see it. One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers' speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and...
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  • Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
    Includes an Introduction and selected bibliography.
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  • Princeton Readings in Political Thought
    A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology, this new edition of Princeton Readings in Political Thought spans from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In addition to the majority of pieces from the original edition, it features exciting new selections from more recent thinkers who address vital contemporary issues, including identity, cosmopolitanism, global justice, and populism. Organized...
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  • Primer on Posttraumatic Growth
    From the inspiring chapter quotes, to relevant historical and current research, to practical clinical directions, Primer on Posttraumatic Growth takes a giant step toward both grounding us and moving us ahead with strong hope for adjustment and growth in the post-trauma/loss world. This is a comprehensive, practical, and readable work that should be at hand for any mental health clinician,...
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  • Preposterous Proverbs
    From our earliest years, we have heard proverbs, and many of them are repeated without much thought. Yes, birds of a feather flock together and absence makes the heart grow fonder, but these sayings are so familiar that we are scarcely aware they are proverbs. It has been so for thousands of years, in every culture. It is only when...
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  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views. Richard Rorty's Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America's foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate decades ago in his groundbreaking...
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  • Pragmatism
    Hilary Putnam has been at the centre of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book, he turns to pragmatism and confronts the teachings of James, Peirce, Dewey, and Wittgenstein—not solely out of an interest in theoretical...
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  • Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
    Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre’s later work, illuminating a pivotal stance in Sartre’s understanding of freedom and communal action. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, released to great fanfare in 1960, has since then receded in philosophical visibility. However, as Sartre’s reputation is now making a comeback, it is time for a reappraisal of his later work. In Practice, Power,...
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  • Practical Radicals
    A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labour experts. "Our movements must seek and win governing power to achieve our visions for a more just society. This book is a vital resource for progressives who want to win." - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), chair,...
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  • Power Animal Meditations
    A collection of guided journeys and meditations to help the reader connect with and learn from power animals and spirit allies. Power Animal Meditations offers 50 unique power animal and spirit guide meditations, illustrated by the award-winning artist of Medicine Cards, Angela Werneke. The book includes 7 additional journeys that take you to new levels, added since the first edition....
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  • Potato
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites... everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To the United Nations, they mean global food security (potatoes are the world’s fourth most important food crop). To 18th-century philosophers, they promised happiness. Nutritionists warn that too many...
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  • Postmodern Ethics
    Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than a twilight, for ethics.
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  • Posthuman Knowledge
    The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, has been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years. These changes are propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and their genetic and algorithmic codes, coupled with...
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  • Positioning Theory
    The word position has long been used in the field of social psychology. Now, social psychologists are creating new theories on group positioning by studying everyday language and discourse. The application of some of these ideas has revealed the necessity of paying close attention to the local moral order within which both public and private intentional acts are performed. The...
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  • Porn
    How do we talk about porn? Why is it that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extraordinary second book, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences...
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  • Porn - Philosophy for Everyone
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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.