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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind by Jack Symes (Editor)
    Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind - by Jack Symes (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781350190412 | ISBN 10: 1350190411

    We know, more intimately than anything else, what it's like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. But, despite the incredible advances of physical science, it seems that we're ... more

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  • Cover image of book Figuring by Maria Popova
    Figuring - by Maria Popova

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786897268 | ISBN 10: 1786897261

    Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of pla ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Philosophy of Simple Living by Jerome Brillaud
    A Philosophy of Simple Living - by Jerome Brillaud

    £14.95   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781789142273 | ISBN 10: 178914227x

    Today, "simple living" is a rallying cry for anti-consumerists, environmentalists, and anyone concerned with humanity's effect on the planet. But what is so revolutionary about a simple life? And why are we so fascinated with simplicity today?   ... more

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  • Cover image of book How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
    How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy - by Julian Baggini

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783782307 | ISBN 10: 1783782307

    In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought.   One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separatel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mind is the Ride by Jet McDonald
    Mind is the Ride - by Jet McDonald

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526901 | ISBN 10: 1783526904

    When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward travel book. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. Mind is the Ride takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini
    A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World - by Julian Baggini

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786488893 | ISBN 10: 1786488892

    The thinking person's tonic for our troubling times.   How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex histor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Žižek
    The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously - by Slavoj Žižek

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986098 | ISBN 10: 0141986093

    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.   Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tetralogue: I
    Tetralogue: I'm Right, You're Wrong - by Timothy Williamson

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780198777175 | ISBN 10: 0198777175

    Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking with Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles by Gary Hayden
    Walking with Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles - by Gary Hayden

    £12.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780746562 | ISBN 10: 1780746563

    "If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright.” So said Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk from John O'Groats to Land's End. But it wasn't al ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
    The Good Book: A Secular Bible - by A. C. Grayling

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408871348 | ISBN 10: 1408871343

    Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life A. C. Grayling, Britains most popular and wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans
    Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations - by Jules Evans

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846043215 | ISBN 10: 1846043212

    In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the ... more

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  • Cover image of book What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present by Joanna Bourke
    What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present - by Joanna Bourke

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086450 | ISBN 10: 1844086453

    Fiercely intelligent, always provocative, Joanna Bourke turns to the subject of the human animal.  In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time by Eva Hoffman
    Time - by Eva Hoffman

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846680434 | ISBN 10: 1846680433

    A radical exploration of our relationship with life's most ineffable element.  Time is the one dimension of experience we cannot elude. But the nature of lived time is changing dramatically. We are living ever longer, but we suffer from e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want and Piero
    Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide - by Christopher Kul-Want and Piero

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848312937 | ISBN 10: 1848312938

    A brand-new Introducing title on the worlds most dangerous philosopher.   Slavoj Zizek is one of those rare philosophers writing today whose fame exceeds academia and who is widely known publicly.   Zizeks work and writings ... more

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  • Cover image of book Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law
    Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole - by Stephen Law

    £15.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781616144111 | ISBN 10: 1616144114

    Members of the Heavens Gate suicide cult believed they were taking a ride to heaven aboard a UFO. Muslim suicide bombers expect to be greeted after death by seventy-two heavenly virgins. Significant numbers of people believe that aliens built the py ... more

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  • Cover image of book Post-Anarchism: A Reader by Duane Rousselle and Sreyyya Evren
    Post-Anarchism: A Reader - by Duane Rousselle and Sreyyya Evren

    £26.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745330860 | ISBN 10: 074533086x

    Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paradoxes from A to Z by Michael Clark
    Paradoxes from A to Z - by Michael Clark

    £15.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415420839 | ISBN 10: 0415420830

    This updated second edition is the essential guide to paradoxes and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thomas Paine Reader. by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)
    The Thomas Paine Reader. - by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)

    £11.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780140444964 | ISBN 10: 0140444963

    All of Paine's supreme masterpieces are included here: The Rights of Man, a magnificent defence of the French Revolution against Edmund Burke and, according to A.J.P.Taylor, 'the best statement of democratic belief in any language'; Common Sense, who ... more

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