The Great Philosophers: Plato
'Courage is knowing what not to fear' - Plato 'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors' Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philosophic field. Even those thinkers who have rejected...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Great Philosophers: Aristotle
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' - Aristotle 'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom' 'You will never do anything in this world without courage' Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist in history, a true pioneer of both science...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Godless Gospel
In The Godless Gospel, Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Jesus—and the Christian values he promotes—by focusing on his teachings in the Gospels. Stripping away the religious elements, Baggini asks how we should understand Jesus's attitude to the renunciation of the self, to politics, or to sexuality, as expressed in Jesus's often-elusive words. An atheist from a Catholic background, Baggini...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The French Mind
‘Majestic, ambitious’ Literary Review We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and what really sets it apart? Historian Peter Watson sets out to answer these questions in this dazzling history...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard
Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better at everything. In the realm of love, what could be less seductive than someone who's trying to seduce you? Seduction is the art of succeeding without trying, and that's a lesson...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Fast
'Caloric restriction is one of the scientifically best-established ways to enhance longevity. A fascinating deep dive into the science and history of fasting.' - Steven M. Lipkin, MD, PhD; director, Adult and Cancer Genetics Clinic, Weill Cornell Medicine 'John Oakes takes us on an elegant and irresistible journey, all the while engaging us with personal experiences, scientific enlightenment, and the...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Encyclopedia of Yoga and Tantra
The ever-increasing popularity of Yoga and related practices makes a desktop reference like this indispensable. With over twenty-five hundred entries and extensive illustrations, it combines comprehensiveness with accessibility. The book is arranged and written in a manner that will inform rather than overwhelm the lay reader, while at the same time offering valuable references for the professional researcher and the...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
A New York Times bestseller! An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives - and how to support them through this critical developmental stage - from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure. In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today's teens...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Complete Guide to Memory
A comprehensive guide to understanding how memory works, how memory forms, the mind-body connection, and more! In the busy, information-filled world in which we live, it's often easy to forget things and hard to keep track of how details get stored in our brain. The Complete Guide to Memory serves as a one-stop resource that covers the essentials on memory....Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Classical Utilitarians
This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy. The selection from Mill's A System of Logic is of special relevance to the debate between those who read Mill as an Act-Utilitarian and those...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Buddhist and the Ethicist
The Buddhist and the Ethicist brings together Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy in unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher, addressing issues like animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty, and more. An unlikely duo—Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent Australian philosopher and professor of bioethics, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, a Taiwanese Buddhist monastic and social activist—join forces...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Book of Human Emotions
Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Is your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Are you curious (perhaps about this book)? Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok? Or giddy with d.paysement? The Book of Human Emotions is a gleeful, thoughtful collection of 156 feelings, both rare and familiar. Each...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Beauty of Choice
In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women's taste as the engine of liberal values. Steiner reframes long-standing questions surrounding desire, art, sexual assault, and beauty in light of #MeToo....Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Art and Science of Connection
In The Art and Science of Connection, psychologist Kasley Killam explains how good health isn't just mental or physical: having close connections and community are as beneficial for us as healthy foods, regular exercise, and a good night's sleep. Through scientific insights, personal stories, and expert interviews, Killam invites readers to discover what social health looks like for them. With...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ted Lasso and Philosophy
An accessible and engaging journey through the philosophical themes and concepts of Ted Lasso Ted Lasso and Philosophy explores the hidden depths beneath the vibrant veneer of AppleTV's breakout, award-winning sitcom. Blending philosophical sophistication with winsome appreciation of this feel-good comedy, the collection features 20 original essays canvassing the breadth of the series and carefully considering the ideas it presents,...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Switchcraft
'Tells you how to duck and dive when the unexpected surprises are incoming fast and hard.' RUBY WAX 'Fascinating...packed full of practical advice on how to help you survive and thrive in an uncertain world.' MICHAEL MOSLEY Discover how expanding and improving your mental agility can transform your life, bolster your resilience, and foster success. There is no one-size-fits-all solution...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Surplus-Enjoyment
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek’s guide to surplus (and why it’s enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But,...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Straw Dogs
Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions.' - J. G. Ballard From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. In...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back
Should droids be free? Should clone troopers? What political and ethical ideas ground resistance and rebellion? What’s wrong with the way women are portrayed in Star Wars? Does Han Solo have a philosophical worldview? Was Galen Erso responsible for the destruction of Alderaan? Should you eat Baby Yoda? “This is the Way.” In Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, the...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Spirit of Cricket
If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be understood. If they said 'it's not cricket', they probably would be (though less reliably than a century ago). Is there some special spirit of cricket? The laws of cricket, like the laws of the land,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Somehow
The #1 New York Times Bestseller Love is our only hope. It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks. In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Anne Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Sleep Easy
Bad sleep sucks. Sleep deficiency defies our biology and sabotages our days. Yet more than a third of us struggle to get to sleep or stay asleep at night. We can shake off the odd sleepless night, but when sleep difficulties persist, things start to unravel. Sleep debt takes its toll on our mood, energy, and productivity. It affects our...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Six in a Bed
Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential quality of being human: without love, we don't learn and develop properly as children and we don't flourish as adults – in short, we're starved...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Simply Philosophy
Simply Philosophy is the clearest, simplest guide to philosophy ever published. Understanding philosophy has never been easier. Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Philosophy is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. Artfully simple, it covers more than 90 key philosophical ideas, organised by major philosophical themes—metaphysics and...Hardback$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Sex and the Failed Absolute
In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Save Your Brain
The evidence is clear - almost half of all cases of dementia and cognitive decline are preventable. But sadly, none are treatable. So what are the lifestyle changes that really make a difference to our brain health? What do the experts do to protect themselves from cognitive decline? And what can we do right now to preserve our quality of...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Rust
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It’s happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidised substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabaté combines art, science, and autobiography to share his...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Reason to Be Happy
How to use logic to solve everyday problems and think your way to a better life, by one of the world's leading economists. Why do our friends have more friends than we do? How do you book the best available seats on a plane? And if jogging for ten minutes adds eight minutes to our life expectancy, should we still...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Real Gender
Societies around the world are struggling to think clearly about trans realities and understand trans identities. Real Gender is the first book to present a cis defence of what it means to be transgender. Moyal-Sharrock and Sandis delve into the various factors which make many trans people’s experience of their gender (or lack thereof) as natural and unquestionable as that...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Politics
A timeless study of politics and society by one of the all-time greatest thinkers. A student of Plato, Aristotle is considered a founding father of philosophy and ethics. This reflection on the role of government, and an individual's role within it, remains as prescient and relevant now as when it was written. One of the most influential books in history,...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Pocket Philosophy: Heidegger's Lizard
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is one of the most influential—and controversial—philosophers of the twentieth century. He is mostly associated with existentialism (the study of human experience) and phenomenology (the study of consciousness), and his work was enormously influential. In this story, Heidegger is exploring the relationship between 'beings' and their environments. How much does each—the rock, the lizard, and the human—understand...Hardback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Philosophy and Psychedelics
What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
On The Shortness of Life
Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman. He is best known for his dramatic plays and philosophical works that include some of the most important writings on stoicism. On the Shortness of Life was written in his later years as a letter to his brother. This age-old wisdom is as applicable to us in our lives today as it...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
On Quality
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: “Quality” “The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment." —Robert M. Pirsig, 1962 More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous,...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
On Purpose
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find in our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
On Leadership
On Leadership is Tony Blair's major new book on the art and science of leadership. Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way—by leading a country for over ten years. In that time, he came to understand that there are certain key characteristics of successful government that he wished he had known about when he started. Now he...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer: 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy.' How can one live well in the world? What does it mean to be happy? In this selection from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle probes the...Paperback$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
On Disinformation
Learn how to fight against the disinformation campaigns imperiling American democracy in this empowering, pocket-sized guide from the author of How to Talk to a Science Denier. INSIDE THE WAR ON TRUTH: Explore the history of how disinformation has been weaponized to manipulate society. The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Of Fear and Strangers
Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and a ‘New Xenophobia’ seems to have emerged out of nowhere. In this fascinating study, George Makari traces the history of xenophobia...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Now and Zen
A charming introduction to Buddhist life and thought from a practising Japanese monk. In Japan we have an expression, 'Float like Cloud, Flow like Water'. Its meaning is—to live free and unconstrained, like floating cloud or flowing water. In this short introduction, Eiyû Murakoshi brings a refreshingly light touch to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism. Reflecting on his...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Mindfulness in Wild Swimming
Mindfulness in Wild Swimming explores how swimming in rivers, lakes, and seas is the epitome of conscious living. It guides the reader through practical mindful exercises and technique tips, and reveals how wild swimming can be the ultimate physical meditation.Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Mindfulness
An easy to follow guide to creating a mindful approach to life In this updated Second Edition of Mindfulness, mindfulness expert Gill Hasson explains how, instead of rushing through your life, you can take things at a slower pace and feel calmer and more grounded. You will discover how being mindful opens you up to new ways of thinking and...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Materialism
Materialism by Terry Eagleton offers a brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture. In this eye-opening and intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the centre of today’s important scientific and cultural, as well as philosophical, debates. The author...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Looking for Theophrastus
Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together, he and Aristotle invented science. Alone, he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention; the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps, the product of his inspiration. When Linnaeus was developing our modern system of plant taxonomy, it...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Looking for Theophrastus
Standing on the deck of a ferry boat, Laura Beatty watches as the assembled port and buildings of mainland Greece disappear from view. Her destination is Lesbos, but she's not only travelling across the stretch of glittering blue sea—she's also travelling 2,000 years into the past, to a time when the world was a wild place of gods and warrior...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
The latest analysis from the maverick philosopher on the dark side of technology and power. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world—changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Lavender Clouds
A dazzling, humorous, and highly personal portrayal of neurodivergence from a leading voice in mental health comics. Eisner Award nominated author Bex Ollerton—known as @Schnumn to her thousands of followers—is a talented comic artist who feels energized and courageous on some days and exhausted and emotionally depleted on others. In Lavender Clouds, she translates her experiences with Autism, ADHD, and...Hardback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Kant
During the early 1950s, Alexandre Kojève resumed his ambitious project to bring the analytic reason of Kantianism in line with Hegel’s logic and philosophy of history. Kant is one of the most extensive text fragments where Kojève turned his attention to the gaps left open in the system of critical philosophy. Published in its raw, unedited form in 1973, in...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
It's Not A Bloody Trend
'A sledgehammer of a book putting to bed all the cynicism and misinformation around a condition that affects so many hidden, brilliant people' Professor Tanya Byron 'Laugh out loud funny and deeply validating - every person who thinks ADHD isn't real should read this book' Leanne Maskell, author of ADHD: An A to Z Nobody should spend their life feeling...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Humour
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of its greatest exponents. Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
How We Walk
You can tell a lot about someone by the way they walk. As Matthew Beaumont argues, the body holds the social traumas of race, history, and inequality. Our stride reflects our social and political experiences and inequalities, highlighting how we navigate the necessary constant vigilance against city life. Through a series of portraits of major thinkers, Beaumont explores the relationship...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
How to Win an Argument
Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest orator All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct—and often floundering or failing as a result—we'd win more arguments if...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
How to Think Like a Philosopher
As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the world? How to Think Like a Philosopher is a revelatory exploration of the methods, tenets and attitudes of thought that guide philosophy, and how they can be applied to our own lives. Drawing on decades of enquiry and a huge range of...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
How to Stop a Conspiracy
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the city and murder its leading politicians. The attempted coup culminated with the unmasking of the conspirators in the...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
How to Prevent Dementia
The comprehensive guide to preventing Alzheimer's and other thinking disorders, from renowned authority Dr Richard Restak. How to Prevent Dementia begins with the principle that the more we know about dementia, the easier it is to prevent or delay it. A better foundation of knowledge also helps people to understand and interact thoughtfully with loved ones living with the condition....Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
How to Focus
Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
How to Flourish
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully abridged version of the entire work in a highly readable and colloquial new translation by Susan Sauve Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how to lead a good life...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
How to Do the Right Thing
There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deserve—that we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that we've treated them just as unfairly. How to Do the Right Thing draws on the principles of ancient Stoicism as articulated by the Roman...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
How to Care about Animals
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals - and our vital relationships with them. How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and farmer M. D. Usher has gathered a...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
How to be Multiple
In How to be Multiple, Helena de Bres—a twin herself—argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another?...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
How to Be Healthy
The second-century Greek physician Galen, the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates, is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, teacher, pharmacologist, and inventor, Galen attended the court of Marcus Aurelius, living through outbreaks of plague (likely smallpox) that devastated the Roman Empire. He also served as a physician for professional gladiators, boasting that...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
How To Be Good
What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? Can we get our leaders to care that humanity prospers, not just economically, but also spiritually? These questions have been asked for over two...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
How to Be an Existentialist
The 10th anniversary edition of a witty classic about the philosophy of existentialism, How to Be an Existentialist is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the other great existentialist philosophers. An attack on contemporary excuse culture, the book urges us to face...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
How to Be
A Times Book of the Year What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
How the World Eats
How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing, and eating food around the world—from the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania, whose traditionally sustainable lifestyle is being squeezed by a crowded planet, and the subsistence rice farmers of Bhutan who toil without machinery to feed themselves from their smallholdings,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
How Economics Works
The complex world of economics - untangled. Discover everything you need to know about economics with this unique graphic guide. Combining clear, jargon-free language and bold, eye-catching graphics, How Economics Works is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of economics. Covering everything from economic theories to international trade, the book presents the groundbreaking ideas of key economists -...Hardback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
How Economics Can Save the World
How Economics Can Save the World by Erik Angner demonstrates that economics has the power to make the world a better, happier, and safer place. Our world is in a mess. The challenges of climate change, inequality, and hunger mean our way of life seems more imperilled and society more divided than ever. But economics can help! From parenting to...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Hegel in A Wired Brain
Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in A Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' – what happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a digital...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Freedom From Anxiety
Do you want to stop worrying? Do you want to feel calm whenever you want? Do you want to turn off fear and turn on peace? Do you want to relax deeply and feel happy? Then let Paul McKenna help you! Over more than three decades, Paul McKenna has helped millions of people to improve their lives with hypnosis, NLP,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Freedom
We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it, we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek argues that the experience of true,...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Frantz Fanon
Doctor, militant, political essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist: Frantz Fanon represented a new model of engaged intellectual who sought to decolonise mid-twentieth-century thought, society, and culture and move beyond the ideology of race. Born Black in colonial Martinique, he fought for France during the Second World War but later renounced his native land and aspired to be Algerian during the...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
For the Good of the World
The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling’s view, are climate change, technology, and justice. In his timely new book, For the Good of the World, he asks: can human beings agree on a set of values that will allow us to confront the numerous threats facing the planet, or will we simply continue with our...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Forms of Enchantment
Forms of Enchantment is an anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of...Paperback$4899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Fear and Trembling
First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ("John of Silence"), Søren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch, W. H. Auden, Walter Benjamin, and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Now, in our era of immense uncertainty, renowned...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Existential Physics
Existential Physics is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Do we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the universe think? Physicists are great at complicated research, but they are less good at telling us why it matters. In this entertaining and groundbreaking book, theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder breaks down why...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Equality
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly sceptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom? Darrin M. McMahon's Equality is the definitive...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Dune and Philosophy
Explore the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune in all its philosophical richness “He who controls the spice controls the universe.” Frank Herbert’s Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice,...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Disparities
The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers, but Slavoj Žižek argues that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean, and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosophies, from Catherine Malabou's plasticity, Julia Kristeva's abjection, and Robert Pippin's self-consciousness, to the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Difference and Repetition
Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and complex repetition. It shows how the two concepts are related: difference implying divergence...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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