It's All Your Fault at Work!
Increasingly, we experience high-conflict people, especially narcissists, in the workplace. Angry customers. Undercutting co-workers. Bullying managers. Destructive business owners. It's All Your Fault at Work! helps you manage high-conflict people in the workplace. Once you recognize their predictable behaviour patterns, a 4-Step Method can be used to calm them, analyse your options, respond to their hostility, and set limits on...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
It's All Greek
Did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 BCE? It's All Greek offers a word-by-word look at the influence of Greek on everyday words in English, telling the stories behind their etymological developments. Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia, and hypochondria derive from...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
It's a Continent
'We need this book' SIMON REEVE 'Illuminating' FINANCIAL TIMES Why is Africa often perceived as a single country? What role did African soldiers play in the Second World War? Who else led the charge against Apartheid in South Africa? How did an African man become one of the wealthiest people in history? It's a Continent unravels these untold stories and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
I Thought I Could Fly
Evocative images, eloquent testimony—a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness.—Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to Prozac A tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman's vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge's span. Charlee Brodsky's stark black-and-white photographs combine with a concise collection of moving...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
I Think, Therefore I Draw
What’s the best way to answer some of the biggest questions in life—questions like: Does God exist? What is the meaning of life? Is there a basic principle for all moral decisions? What is the best way to organise society? How do we know what is true? Are there limits to what we can know? Why do things exist? Is...Hardback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
It All Started with a Bird
Judith Sedgeman takes us on a psychological journey that starts with the innocent childhood delight at the discovery of thought. She shows us how we unintentionally create insecurity and distress as we grow up, then face the anxiety and pressures of teenage years. As we enter adulthood, she demonstrates how we face the intensity of testing our knowledge and falling...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
István Szabó
István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half-century. This thoughtful and original book is the first examination of Szabó’s contribution to contemporary thought, engaging the troubled history of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. István Szabó’s importance as a filmmaker lies not only in his attention to...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Is Whistleblowing a Duty?
Recent years have seen a number of whistleblowers risk their liberty to expose illegal and corrupt behaviour. Some have heralded their bravery; others see them as traitors. Can there be a moral duty to emulate their example and blow the whistle? In Is Whistleblowing a Duty?, leading political philosophers Emanuela Ceva and Michele Bocchiola draw on well-known cases, such as...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Israelis and Palestinians
Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this compelling and timely book, the eminent moral philosopher Jonathan Glover argues that one vital step towards progress is to better understand the disturbing psychology of the cycle of...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Islam and Anarchism
'One of the fiercest books I've ever read' - Jasbir K. Puar Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is perhaps an unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism. Islam and Anarchism...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Is It Ever Just Sex?
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader. It was just sex... It's a familiar claim. But it's also an impossibility, as Darian Leader shows in this delightfully thought-provoking study. Our bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and our minds don't simply stand by—as we can see from...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Is It Ever Just Sex?
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader. It was just sex. It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty, he was at the heart of British intellectual...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Irrationality
A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationality. It's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value. Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our...Hardback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Irrationality
From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us - and always will be. In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Invitation to Philosophy
In the revised and updated edition of this classic introductory text, Martin Hollis leads his readers through the age-old philosophical questions of free choice and human nature, appearance and reality, reason and experience. He also addresses newer questions of rationality and morality, other minds and inner selves, and the relation between the natural and human worlds. Using theories and examples...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology
Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology focuses on questions of personality in everyday life that intrigue and puzzle us. In this way, we are introduced to both the principles and the fascinating methods of the psychology of personal constructs. This second edition incorporates the recent work on trauma and grieving that has been produced by psychotherapists in this field. It also...Paperback$11499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Inventing Philosophy's Other
The history of phenomenology, and its absence, in American philosophy. Phenomenology and so-called “continental philosophy” receive scant attention in most American philosophy departments, despite their foundational influence on intellectual movements such as existentialism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. In Inventing Philosophy’s Other, Jonathan Strassfeld explores this absence, revealing how everyday institutional practices played a determinative role in the development of twentieth-century academic...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Inventing Philosophy's Other
The history of phenomenology, and its absence, in American philosophy. Phenomenology and so-called “continental philosophy” receive scant attention in most American philosophy departments, despite their foundational influence on intellectual movements such as existentialism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. In Inventing Philosophy’s Other, Jonathan Strassfeld explores this absence, revealing how everyday institutional practices played a determinative role in the development of twentieth-century academic...Hardback$18099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Inventing Peace
Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering, and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has become of the notion of peace in all this? In the form of a...Paperback$12700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Introduction to Presocratics
Introduction to Presocratics "The general public and scholars alike will find Introduction to Presocratics stimulating, engaging, and exceptionally useful. Stamatellos' intriguing and illuminating theme-based approach to this subject and his inclusion of a fresh translation of all the major fragments make this book a 'must have' for anyone interested in Presocratic philosophy." Robert D. Luginbill, University of Louisville "An excellent...Paperback$7799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Introduction to Personality
This Eighth Edition reflects the new developments within personality psychology, and gives the student a picture of the field as a cumulative, integrative science that builds on its rich past and now allows a much more coherent view of the whole functioning individual in the social world. This revision, subtitled: Toward an Integrative Science of the Person, is committed to...Hardback$25299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Introduction to Metaphysics
This new edition of one of Heidegger's most important works features a revised and expanded translators' introduction and an updated translation, as well as the first English versions of Heidegger's draft of a portion of the text and of his later critique of his own lectures. Other new features include an afterword by Petra Jaeger, editor of the German text....Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Introduction to Existentialism
This textbook introduces you to existentialist philosophical theory and its cultural influence. The first part of the book offers an introductory overview of the 19th century historical roots of existentialist thought and chapters on all the key players: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus. The second part presents a thematic approach, with chapters on Christian and Jewish existentialism,...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world – things like the Mona Lisa, but also things like horror movies, the ugliest dog in the world, and wallpaper. There’s a surprising amount of philosophical content to be found in wallpaper. Using a case-driven approach, Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art is grounded in real-world examples...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture
Can Wonder Woman help us understand feminist philosophy? How Does Wakandan technology transcend anti-Blackness? What can Star Trek teach us about the true nature of reality? Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture makes important philosophical concepts and the work of major philosophers relevant, fun, and exciting. Using engaging examples from film and television, this easy-to-read book covers everything from basic metaphysics...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Intimate Relationships
Intimate Relationships is the only text to fully capture the excitement of today's research findings on relationships. Through current research and inclusive real-world examples, Intimate Relationships embraces the rich diversity of intimacy across couples and cultures and presents a portrait of relationships in which every student belongs. To help students think critically about modern intimacy, the 4th edition synthesises the...Set$25999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
In The Shadow of Mount Sinai
In this short book, Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where he identifies the emergence of what he calls the Sinai Schema. At the core of monotheism is the logic of belonging to a community of confession,...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
In the Shadow of Justice
A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal...Hardback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Interventions 2020
The death of God in the West was the prelude to a metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made to offer the individual a minimum of being. The latest of these...Hardback$11099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Interventions 2020
The death of God in the West was the prelude to a metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made to offer the individual a minimum of being. The latest of these...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Interrogating the Real
Slavoj Žižek is one of the world’s foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox, and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high-profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy, and popular culture, and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Interpersonal Skills for Nurses and Health Care Professionals
It is important for health workers to be effective and confident in their daily communications with clients and patients in order to develop therapeutic relationships. For new students, this can be a particularly daunting task, as this confidence often comes from personal experience. Interpersonal Skills for Nurses and Health Care Professionals provides examples of the type of clinical experiences students...Paperback$11499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology
Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology. International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology provides: An updated edition of a highly successful handbook A focus on the applied aspects of work and health psychology New chapters that cover emerging themes in this rapidly growing field A prestigious team...Paperback$9299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Intercultural Phenomenology
Intercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century. Drawing on ideas from phenomenology, Japanese philosophy, and Zen Buddhism, the book follows the philosophers who changed their perception of the world by choosing to suspend judgement. Guided by this philosophical method known as the...Paperback$9300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy
First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze in the domain of the philosophy of science. As well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory, and chaos theory...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Intelligent Testing with the WISC-V
Interpret the WISC–V to help diagnose learning disabilities and to translate profiles of test scores to educational action The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Fifth Edition (WISC–V) is a valuable tool for assessing children and adolescents with learning disorders. Intelligent Testing with the WISC–V offers the comprehensive guidance you need to administer, score, and interpret WISC–V profiles for informing diagnoses and...Hardback$18299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Instant Philosophy
Instant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From Nietzsche to Nozick, empiricism to solipsism, Pascal's wager to Ockham's razor, every key figure, discovery or idea is...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Intact
A vital exploration of equality and the body from an acclaimed political philosopher. In this thought-provoking, original work, acclaimed political philosopher Clare Chambers argues that the unmodified body is a key political principle. While defending individuals' right to change their bodies, she argues that the social pressures to modify undermine equality. She shows how the connected ideas of the natural...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Inside the Second Wave of Feminism
A landmark account of a key radical feminist organisation, offering lessons for today's women's liberation movement. Activist members of the radical feminist organisation Boston Female Liberation provide an inside account of the group's history, strategy, and legacy in this compelling contribution to the historiography of Second Wave feminism. Boston Female Liberation member Nancy Rosenstock expertly weaves together the reflections of...Hardback$14400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
In Search of Wagner
Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the modern Culture Industry. A foreword...Paperback$6600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
In Praise Of Love
A new century, new threats to love . . . Love without risks is like war without deaths – but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love – without the key ingredient of chance – is in danger of withering on the vine. In In...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
In Praise of Meekness
In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time. Written over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the essays in this volume develop some of the central themes in Bobbio's moral and political philosophy. They also reflect his longstanding civil commitment to liberty, democracy,...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
In Praise of Forgiveness
Relationships fall apart, marriages fail, couples break up – it happens to us all. Time corrodes passion, and the routines of daily life stifle the excitement that initially surrounds the emotion of the first encounter. The difficulty of uniting sexual pleasure with love, which Freud considered to be the most common neurosis in any love life, has become emblematic of...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
In Over Our Heads
If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental capacities, and showing what happens when we find ourselves, as we so...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
In Love with Life
In his preface to Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche says: "With Thus Spoke Zarathustra I have given mankind the greatest present that has ever been made to it so far. This book, with a voice bridging centuries, is not only the highest book there is, the book that is truly characterized by the air of the heights - the whole fact...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
In Kant's Wake
In Kant's Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century – Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy – and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant's fascinating and demanding philosophy. In Kant's Wake gives a sense of the main thinkers and problems, and the nature of their debates. It provides an intriguing...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Infinite Thought
Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high-profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. He is a leading light in the generation of thinkers who came of intellectual age in 1968, with work that deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers, from Plato and Lucretius through Heidegger to Lacan and Deleuze. Now available...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Infinite Mobilization
The core of what we refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a ‘kinetic utopia’: the movement of the world as a whole reflects the implementation of our plans for it. But as soon as the kinetic utopia...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Infinite Awareness
Book Award of the Parapsychological Association, 2017 Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2017 (Spiritual) First Place, Nautilus Book Awards 2017 (Science, Cosmology and Expanding Consciousness) First Place, International Excellence Mind, Body Spirit Book Awards, 2017 (Human Consciousness) Bronze Medal, Feathered Quill Book Awards, 2017 (Best Religious/Spiritual) First Place, Great Northwest Book Festival, 2017 (Spiritual Books) First Place, New...Paperback$7544Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Inference and Representation
The first comprehensive defence of an inferential conception of scientific representation, with applications to art and epistemology. Inference and Representation by Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that delivers a compelling account of modelling practice. He begins by discussing the history and methodology of model building, helpfully charting the emergence of what he calls the modelling attitude, a nineteenth-century...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
In Emergency, Break Glass
Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by "content." Written long before the advent of smartphones, Nietzsche's aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce mastery of attention, a strict information diet, and a powerful connection...Hardback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Infancy
The fourth edition of Infancy is a comprehensive and accessible core text for courses in infant development and early childhood development. Dana Gross’s sensitive and engaging teaching voice seamlessly weaves together research and theory with current issues of diversity and culture. This resource provides students with enough detail to understand methodological issues, explore both practically and theoretically important topics, and...Paperback$19687Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Industrial-Strength Denial
How corporate denial harms our world and continues to threaten our future. Corporations faced with proof that they are hurting people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of witch hunts, attacking their critics’ motives, and otherwise rationalising their harmful activities. Denial campaigns have let corporations continue dangerous practices that cause widespread suffering, death,...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Industrial-Strength Denial
How corporate denial harms our world and continues to threaten our future. Corporations faced with proof that they are harming people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of witch hunts, attacking their critics’ motives, and otherwise rationalising their harmful activities. Denial campaigns have allowed corporations to continue dangerous practices that cause widespread suffering,...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Explore the foundations of, and latest developments in, industrial-organizational psychology from employee and employer perspectives. In the newly revised Eighth Edition of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice, distinguished researcher and psychologist Paul E. Spector delivers a robust and up-to-date review of the industrial-organizational field. This edition covers the latest research on contemporary trends and traditional areas of the...Paperback$19299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information
A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living From Democritus's atomism to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, from Aristotle's reflections on the individual to Husserl's call for a focused return to things, from the philosophical advent of the Cartesian ego and the Leibnizian monad to Heidegger's notion of Dasein, the question concerning the constitution...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Importance of Being Miserable
Humans just want to be happy, yes? After all, that’s what life’s all about. Well ... no. It turns out that, for a huge chunk of history, feeling good was the furthest thing from our minds. Expecting life to be fun and fulfilling (or, if all else fails, fine) is actually a very recent phenomenon. And there’s every reason to...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Indiana Jones and Philosophy
Indiana Jones and Philosophy What does it mean to choose wisely? Can heroes seek fortune and glory? Why does Indy take a leap of faith? Do Indy’s adventures provide him evidence of the supernatural? Should we hide the Ark of the Covenant in a military-controlled warehouse? Why are museums so important to archaeology? If adventure has a name, it must...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Inception and Philosophy
Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is the most philosophical, thought-provoking, and disturbing movie since The Matrix. It was the 'existential heist film' of the year 2010. The very idea that our dreams and reality are one and the same has caused many sleepless nights and deep vexing conversations around the world. The spontaneous association of the film with philosophical dream theories...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Inception and Philosophy
A philosophical look at the movie Inception and its brilliant metaphysical puzzles Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan's four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another's dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. Inception is a metaphysical heist film that raises more questions than it answers: Can we know...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Imperium
What should we do with the ideals of internationalism, the withering away of state, and horizontality? Probably start by thinking seriously about them. That is to say, about their conditions of possibility (or impossibility), rather than sticking to the wishful thinking which believes that for them to happen it is enough to want them. Humanity exists neither as a dust...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Imitation Democracy
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of “imitation democracy,” marked by “a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule.” How did this system take shape, how else might it have developed, and what are the prospects for re-envisioning it more democratically in the future? These...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Immortal Gestures
There is an old Buddhist adage—the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed to look to the celestial light. I am asking you to look at the finger. The finger is also the moon. A tilted head. A finger to the lips. A...Hardback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Imagining the End
A leading philosopher explores the ethics and psychology of flourishing during times of personal and collective crisis. Imagine the end of the world. Now think about the end—the purpose—of life. They're different exercises, but in Jonathan Lear's profound reflection on mourning and meaning, these two kinds of thinking are also connected: related ways of exploring some of our deepest questions...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Imagining the End
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction A Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book "A deeply insightful and thought-enriching work by one of the most original philosophers writing today. Imagining the End is acutely aware of the danger we stand in of finding ourselves on an uninhabitable planet. But Lear is also aware of how the consciousness of impending...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Images of the Present Time
Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time—that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment but bring a real present into existence. Images...Hardback$24699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Images of the Present Time
Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American Foundation Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be contemporary with one's own time—that is, how to not simply inhabit a passing moment...Paperback$12100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
I Know There Are So Many of You
The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever before. In these two lectures, delivered to the large number of young people who gathered in...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
If You Have Never Thought Gray
“You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral colour lying between black and white: we use the same word to describe moods, November skies, the hair of the elderly,...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics
Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980–1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics....Hardback$12399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Idleness
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The case for idleness as freedom from usefulness, performance, and the opinion of others For millennia, idleness and laziness have been seen as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labour and self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure....Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
I and Thou
The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West. ― Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art at the universities of Vienna, Zurich, and Berlin, he became...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Identities
This anthology marks the first time that the key essays in the long tradition of philosophical debate surrounding identity categories have been brought together in one volume. Identities comprises the essays that have shaped discussions of identity across disciplines, including selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, Du Bois, de Beauvoir, Lukacs, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbawm, Wittig, Butler, Halperin, Robertson, Said, and...Paperback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Identity in Science Fiction
Identity in Science Fiction features classic authors and brand-new work, presenting a fundamental metaphysical challenge in every story. Are we souls, brains, animals, or patterns of information? Are the Buddhists right to say that the self is an illusion? Do we survive under conditions such as total amnesia, or the replacement of our brains by machine parts? Each story is...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Ideas to Save Your Life
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world. Ideas to Save Your Life explores the wisdom of more than twenty eminent thinkers across history, from Pythagoras to the contemporary Australian philosopher Frank Jackson; from Mungo Woman to Martha Nussbaum, by way of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch. It ranges widely across subjects to ask: from where...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Idealization and the Aims of Science
Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function—if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. Idealization and the Aims of Science shows just how crucial idealization is to science and why it matters. Beginning with the acknowledgment of...Paperback$7399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Ideas That Matter
This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can—and does—change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism, and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism, or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move into the 21st century? More than a simple reference work, this is...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
I am Not a Brain
Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our consciousness? Is the self only our brain’s user interface, a kind of stage on which a...Hardback$15000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Hypnosis Between Science and Magic
What if judgement returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking are at the very heart of the acclaimed philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers' political and philosophical thought and her insistence that ‘the smoke of the burned witches still hangs in...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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