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  • Outsider Theory
    A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies. What do the Nag Hammadi library, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, speculative feminist historiography, Marcus Garvey's finances, and maps drawn by asylum patients have in common? Jonathan P. Eburne explores this question as never before in Outsider Theory, a timely book...
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  • Out of One, Many
    A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity. Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and...
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  • Open Democracy
    How a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until...
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  • On Truth in Politics
    The 'philosopher of truth' (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value and how it can be strengthened. Do any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? Should we? In a world of big lies, denialism, and conspiracy theories, democracies are experiencing two interlocked crises: a loss of confidence in democracy...
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  • On Posthuman War
    Tracing war's expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself As military and other forms of political violence become the planetary norm, On Posthuman War traces the expansion of war beyond traditional theatres of battle. Drawing on counterinsurgency field manuals, tactical manifestos, data-driven military theory, and asymmetrical-war archives, Mike Hill delineates new "Areas of Operation" within...
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  • Of Rule and Office
    Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. In doing so,...
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  • Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
    In summer 2024, France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover. But the disaster was avoided thanks to a New Popular Front of parties headed by long-standing left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. It won the most seats in the snap parliamentary elections, running on a radical, progressive, inclusive agenda, in large part inspired by Mélenchon's presidential programme. Now, the People!...
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  • No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries
    Was anarchism in areas outside of Europe an import and a script to be mimicked? Was it perpetually at odds with other currents of the Left? The authors in this collection take up these questions of geographical and political peripheries. Building on recent research that has emphasised the plural origins of anarchist thought and practice, they reflect on the histories...
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  • Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel
    Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer, and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work widely regarded as the most important contribution to...
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  • Nationalism
    The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism, beginning with the rise of the nation-state in the eighteenth century through the revival of nationalist ideas...
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  • Mussolini's Intellectuals
    Fascism has traditionally been characterised as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism—the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world—provides an alternative account. Mussolini's Intellectuals by A. James Gregor argues that Italian Fascism may...
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  • Motherland
    'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan 'Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement' Tom Holland 'Elegant and powerful, Pepera's magnificent book elevates our understanding of Africa's overlooked histories' Olivette Otele, author of African Europeans Motherland is a ground-breaking exploration of African culture and identity, told via Luke Pepera's journey through 500,000 years of history to...
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  • Mistaken Identity
    Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider turns to the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing on the words and deeds of...
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  • Micro Activism
    In this age of social justice, those who don't necessarily want to lead a movement or join a protest march are left wondering, "How can I make an impact?" In Micro Activism, former political consultant turned activism coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise in empowering introverts and highly sensitive people to help each of us, no matter our temperament, find...
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  • Marx's Capital And Hegel's Logic: A Reexamination
    This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the relation between Marx's economic theory in Capital and Hegel's Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around the world. The subjects dealt with include: systematic dialectics, the New Dialectics, materialism vs. idealism, Marx's 'inversion' of Hegel, Hegel's Concept logic, Hegel's Essence logic, Marx's levels of abstraction of capital in...
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  • Marx And Nature
    Though infrequently viewed as an environmental thinker, Karl Marx insisted that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by both historically developed relations among producers and natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology and critical political...
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  • Mad World
    In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana's most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics in India to the prospects for a new Cold War. Ever attentive to moments where the bizarre and the epic join forces, among the questions...
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  • Lost Maps of the Caliphs
    About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable...
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  • Lenin
    Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Lukács and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as the only theoretical equal to Marx. Lukács shows, with unprecedented clarity, how Lenin's historical interventions—from his vanguard politics and repurposing of the state to his detection of a new, imperialist...
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  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
    Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book. "In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and...
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  • King Leopold's Ghostwriter
    A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State. Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809-1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe. Yet Twiss's...
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  • Just and Unjust Wars
    Just and Unjust Wars forever changed the way we think about the ethics of conflict. First published in 1977 and now brought up to the present with a new preface and postscript, this classic work by political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues that arise before, during, and after the wars we fight. Reaching from the Athenian attack on...
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  • Is Remote Warfare Moral?
    Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as an Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our guide to understanding this future, able to engage in both the language of military operations and the language of moral philosophy. Through gripping accounts of remote pilots making life-and-death decisions and analysis of high-profile cases such as the killing...
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  • Immigration and Freedom
    A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies. Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination. In this book, however, Chandran Kukathas argues that the greater threat comes not from immigration but from immigration control. Kukathas...
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  • I Know Best
    In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism, warning of the normalising of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. Thirty-five years later, in an era marked by the Obama administration—with its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandals—we are witnessing a full-blown epidemic of what has recently been called Moral Narcissism. Forget Narcissus and his...
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  • How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era
    The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election, and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order—an expression of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down. Yet, mainstream politicians and analysts have been slow to grasp the changing situation, relying instead...
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  • How Spies Think
    'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons' — Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 From the former director of GCHQ, Professor Sir David Omand, learn the methodology used by British intelligence agencies to reach judgements, establish the right level of confidence, and act decisively. Full...
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  • Hold Everything Dear
    From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack...
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  • Higher Sobriety
    What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed memoir, High Sobriety. As one of the original pioneers in the 'quit lit' space, Jill started a national conversation about the role of alcohol in our lives, turning the lens on her own rocky relationship with booze and forensically dissecting the...
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  • Hegel’s World Revolutions
    G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesthetics, and metaphysics. His most lasting contribution was his vision of history and politics. In Hegel’s World Revolutions, Richard Bourke returns to Hegel’s original arguments, clarifying their true import and illuminating their relevance to contemporary...
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  • Georg Lukàcs
    The philosophical and political development that converted Georg Lukács from a distinguished representative of Central European aesthetic vitalism into a major Marxist theorist and Communist militant has long remained an enigma. In this now classic study, Michael Löwy for the first time traced and explained the extraordinary mutation that occurred in Lukács's thought between 1909 and 1929. Utilizing many as...
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  • Futures of Black Radicalism
    Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key scholarly voices from a wide array of disciplines recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism as it developed in the 19th and 20th centuries while defining new directions for Black...
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  • Freedom from Fear
    A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberals Freedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical debate, Alan Kahan charts the development of Western liberalism from the late eighteenth century to the present. Examining key...
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  • Fascism
    These concise guides are an antidote to confusion, tracing major political ideas from their origins to today's headlines. Hitler's salute. Mussolini's glare. The swastika. The jackboot. These symbols of fascism's past loom large in the popular imagination. So why is the word itself so hard to define? Unlike most major political ideologies, fascism has no clear-cut intellectual foundation. It appeals...
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  • Everything, All the Time, Everywhere
    Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism, which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It...
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  • Enter the Animal
    Historically, grief and spirituality have been jealously guarded as uniquely human attributes. Although nonhuman animal grief has been acknowledged in recent times, the potency of the feeling has not been recognised as equal to human grief. Both academic and popular discussions continue to be tainted by anthropocentric philosophical questions. In Enter the Animal, Teya Brooks Pribac examines what we do...
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  • Divine Institutions
    How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic. Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the...
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  • Dharma
    Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as "ethics," "religion," "law," or "social order," dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it...
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  • Democracy Erodes from the Top
    Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe's crisis of democracy. An apparent explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy Erodes from the Top reveals that the real crisis stems not from an increasingly populist public but from political leaders who exploit...
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  • Debating Civilisations
    Debating Civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory, and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires, and civilisations in human history....
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  • Conspiracy Theory
    These concise guides are an antidote to confusion, tracing major political ideas from their origins to today's headlines. The world has always had conspiracy theories. From the Illuminati to the deep state, the JFK assassination to the death of Princess Diana - there have always been those who believe that events are manipulated by shadowy forces with sinister intent. But...
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  • Communitarianism
    This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Henry Tam’s Communitarianism brings different strands of communitarian thought together into a critical synthesis, at the centre of which is the ideal of inclusive communities based on the three principles of mutual responsibility, cooperative enquiry, and citizen participation. Tam shows how communitarian ideas can be applied in practice, addressing key problems in social,...
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  • Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
    Offering the first complete translation into modern English of Aquinas' unfinished commentary on Aristotle's Politics, this translation follows the definitive Leonine text of Aquinas and reproduces in English those passages of William of Moerbeke's exacting yet elliptical translation of the Politics from which Aquinas worked. Bekker numbers have been added to passages from the Politics for easy reference. Students of...
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  • Climate Grief
    Climate Grief presents a convincing argument that climate grief is not an ailment to fix, but a warning from within us and a call to action. This book acquaints us with the realities of climate change and its accompanying grief, liberating us to cope and define our next steps towards a sustainable future. Climate grief is described as a natural...
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  • Citizen Marx
    The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx's relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thought. In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx's thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Marx's relation to republicanism changed over the course of his life, but its complex influence on his thought...
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  • Centrism
    These concise guides are an antidote to confusion, tracing major political ideas from their origins to today's headlines. A coherent political philosophy or a vacuous cop-out? A pragmatic middle way between the extremes of left and right or a cynical strategy to secure power and neuter debate? Politicians have long invoked centrism as both a term of abuse (Margaret Thatcher)...
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  • Capitalism
    Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crises - ecological, political, social - which we may not survive. In this brilliant, wide-ranging conversation, political philosophers Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi identify capitalism as the source of the devastation and examine its in-built tendency to crisis. In an exchange that ranges across history, critical theory,...
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  • Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine
    The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest – and most divisive – topics in the politics of knowledge today. In Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine, Nick Riemer addresses the most fundamental questions raised by the call to sever ties with Israeli universities, and offers...
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  • Being Numerous
    Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics, personhood, and truth, and offers in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we might live in it. Beginning with an interrogation of what it means to fight fascism, Natasha Lennard explores the limits of individual rights, the criminalisation of political dissent, the myths of radical sex, and...
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  • Basic Rights
    An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justice. Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of international relations and foreign policy, particularly in debates regarding foreign policy's role in alleviating global poverty. Henry Shue asks: Which human...
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  • Athens on Trial
    The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a prime Rorschach test for political thought. Whether praising Athens's government as the legitimising ancestor of modern democracies or condemning it as mob rule,...
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  • Am I Normal?
    As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph * 'Riveting' Mail on Sunday * 'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day 'Compelling' Observer Sarah Chaney takes us on an eye-opening and...
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  • Plato: Five Dialogues
    The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
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  • You Do You
    From the author who brought you the 'genius' bestsellers The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fk and Get Your Sh*t Together In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fk, our favourite 'anti-guru' Sarah Knight unleashed the power of saying no. In Get Your Sht Together, she prioritised the sht you need and want to do so you can...
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  • When Reason Goes on Holiday
    Philosophers usually emphasise the importance of logic, clarity, and reason. Therefore, when they address political issues, one would expect them to inject a dose of rationality into these discussions, right? Wrong. When Reason Goes on Holiday provides numerous examples illustrating the unexpected level of political irrationality among leading contemporary philosophers. The book presents a detailed analysis of extreme leftist views...
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  • What Would Frida Do?
    Revered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a feminist symbol of daring creativity. Her paintings have earned her admirers around the world, but perhaps her greatest work of art was her own life. What Would Frida Do? celebrates this icon's signature style, outspoken politics, and boldness in love and...
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  • Up Until Now
    'Petrea King is one of those rare Australians who have changed the country for the better.' Richard Glover As a child, Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending months in hospital over many years. After leaving school, her desire to help others impelled her to become a nurse, then later to qualify as a naturopath, herbalist, homoeopath, yoga instructor...
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  • Under the Hornbeams
    'I'm not homeless: this is my home!' Nick points to the branches of the hornbeam under which we are standing, its leaves still glistening in the aftermath of the morning rain. On one of the lower branches sits a robin, joining our conversation. It seems to be saying: Why should anyone want to leave this place? Nick and Pascal live...
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  • The Wisdom of Morrie
    From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Beautiful ... Those lucky enough to read this book will be inspired. Deepak Chopra Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have...
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  • The Power In The People
    "Michael Mansfield has given power to the voiceless, the innocents ... For this, he too is a hero" - JOHN PILGER "Michael Mansfield combines rare humanity with a brilliant understanding of the law" - JON SNOW "A book of great importance ... Mr Mansfield's thoughtful reflections demand our attention" - KEN LOACH I want this book to inspire people, give...
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  • The Longest Climb
    An inspiring, moving, and unblinking view of a battered climber who refuses to turn his back on the mountains. Born in Bolton, England, Paul Pritchard started climbing when he was 16 years old. In time, he became one of the foremost British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s, climbing difficult routes across the United Kingdom and around the world. His...
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  • The Infidel and the Professor
    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thought. David Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his religious scepticism and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith, now hailed as the founding father...
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  • The Gift of Perspective
    IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Award Winner for Environment/Ecology Nautilus Award Silver, Inner Prosperity & Right Livelihood "Lindsey Roy proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that joy and happiness are just on the other side of the mountain you are climbing." - Katherine Wintsch, CEO of The Mom Complex; author of Slay Like a Mother A corporate executive,...
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  • The Fire Is upon Us
    On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was the American dream is at the expense of...
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  • Solving for Why
    Solving for Why chronicles one man's journey to find the answer to the biggest of all life's questions: "Why?" Following a traumatic car accident, Dr. Shrime—the child of Lebanese immigrants fleeing a civil war, who later became a successful practising surgeon in Boston—found himself compelled to change the course of his life. He was determined to find meaning and satisfaction...
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  • Robespierre
    How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervour of those who defend Robespierre the 'Incorruptible,' who championed the rights of the people, is met with revulsion by...
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    How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervour of those who defend Robespierre the 'Incorruptible,' who championed the rights of the people, is met with revulsion by...
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  • Perfectly Matched
    ‘Rachel Jayne masterfully draws out heartfelt honesty and intimate details, making these love stories an absolute delight. Hop on and enjoy the ride through the ups and downs of the carousel of love!" – Greg Evans What draws us to love, binds us in partnership, and keeps us searching for “The One”? Perfectly Matched takes readers on a heartwarming exploration...
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  • Perfect Bound
    A Mail on Sunday Best Memoir 2024 ‘Truly compelling.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink ‘Breathtaking … I loved it.’ Fern Britton ‘Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.’ Alastair Campbell 'Gripping' Observer ‘Brave and raw’ Daily Mail 'An amazing story, powerfully told' Mail on Sunday An unforgettable memoir and manifesto for living, from the woman who redefined magazines for the 21st century Having suffered the unimaginable loss...
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  • Parfit
    Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even...
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  • Nietzsche in Italy
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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.