This Book Does Not Exist : Adventures in the paradoxical by Gary Hayden & Michael Picard
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Category: Philosophy
Welcome to the perplexing world of the paradoxical. Prepare to stretch your mind and challenge everything you think you think you know as This Book Does Not Exist unveils how weird a world of thought can be. Filled with philosophical and mathematical problems to baffle and delight you This Book Does Not ...Show more
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
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Category: Philosophy
The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think. Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focu ...Show more
What Not to Say: The philosophy of life's tricky moments by Mark Vernon
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Category: Philosophy
Everyone has such moments: 'I didn't know what to say' times when you are silenced - overwhelmed with embarrassment - because someone confronts you with a situation, and you have no idea how to respond. And the worst thing is - you then say the wrong thing. WHAT NOT TO SAY takes those situations, unpack ...Show more
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
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Category: Philosophy
In his humorous, elegantly-written romp through the history of philosophy, Simon Critchley starts with the premise that philosophers' deaths are as interesting as their lives. Through his catalogue of philosophers' demises (tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck) he confronts ...Show more
Identity and Violence : The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya K. Sen
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Category: Philosophy
The world may be more driven by murderous violence than ever before, yet Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues in this sweeping philosophical work that its brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Sen argues in his new book that conflict and violence are sustained today, no less ...Show more
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
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Category: Philosophy
Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. "The Principles of Uncertainty" is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal na ...Show more
On Desire by William B. Irvine
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Category: Philosophy
Why We Want What We WantA married person falls in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be happy unless he owns a luxury car. A dieter has a craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a dramatic impact. In On Desire, William B. Ir ...Show more
The Form of Things by A.C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things... are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. It is ...Show more
Darwin's Origin of Species by Browne Janet
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
An enlightening and highly readable introduction to the book that altered forever our understanding of what it is to be human. There is grandeur in this view of life . . . whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beauti ...Show more
What Is Good? The Search for the Best way to Live by A C Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
A.C. Grayling answers the most important question - How do we live a good life?One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out what we value - what principles we want to live by and which codes we will use to guide our behaviour. Most of us want to live a 'good life'. But what, in today ...Show more
Stages of Meditation: Training the Mind. by The Dalai Lama
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Category: Philosophy
Now available in paperback, the Dalai Lama's landmark book on the popular subject of meditation. In Stages of Meditation, His Holiness offers his highly practical views on the subject of meditation: how to do it, the various different procedures and approaches we can take, what we and others may gai ...Show more
The Battle For God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
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Category: Philosophy
Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.