Philosophy

Mark Tuitert Hardback 144 pages Discover how the ancient wisdom of the Stoics provides the essential tools you need to navigate the modern world. 'Relatable and inspiring ... Get ready to be mot...

Venki Ramakrishnan Paperback How can science help us live better and longer? We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why...

Philip Goff Hardback 208 pages Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditiona...

Audre Lorde Paperback 128 pages Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female streng...

Hannah Arendt Paperback 80 pages Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Ho...

by Saigyo (Author) , Kamo no Chomei (Author) , Yoshida Kenko (Author) Paperback 112 pages 'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty ...

PaperbackErling Kagge Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than Erling Kagge, who was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's pole...

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PaperbackPeter Kropotkin 'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a b...

HardbackLucretius - (Introduction by Richard Jenkyns) One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks. Lucretius' poem On the...

HardbackSeneca - Introduction by Robin Campbell Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philos...

PaperbackNiccolo Machiavelli Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolu...

PaperbackKarl Marx - Friedrich Engels Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war a...

SoftbackHannah Arendt 'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be...

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Sarah Bakewell Paperback 448 pages Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue M...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche, Cover: Softback, Pages: 352...

Hardback Adam Smith “It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that univ...

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Author: Niccolò Macchiavelli, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 232...

Paperback 288 pages It’s easy to be pessimistic these days. We know that inequality has increased dramatically over the past two generations. Its ravages are increasingly impossible to ignore...

Robert M Sapolsky Paperback 528 pages The legendary author of Behave shows that free will can not exist and explores the radical and disturbing implicationsWhat if free will is an illusion? In D...

The School of Life Hardback 176 pages Great stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them. Books can be so powerful, helping us through tricky times, offerin...