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  • HOW TO DREAM
    HOW TO DREAM
    NHAT HANH, THICH
    In the final book of the best-selling Mindfulness Essentials series, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to realize our dreams in this very moment.We all want our lives to be useful and meaningful. The aspiration to transform suffering—our own, each other's, and the Earth's—can give us the energy we need to continue on a wholesome path. In How to Dream, Thich Nhat Hanh expl...
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  • STOICISM 101
    STOICISM 101
    ERICK CLOWARD
    Discover all the essential wisdom of the stoics with this engaging, informative, and easy-to-understand guide to all the key philosophers, concepts, and principles of the stoic philosophy.You've seen the memes and quotes everywhere—from Reddit to TikTok—but what is stoicism really about? Stoicism 101 teaches you everything you need to know about this influential philosophy—from...
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  • CATASTROPHE ETHICS
    CATASTROPHE ETHICS
    TRAVIS RIEDER
    Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avoid plastic or air travel, or to drive electric, make any real difference? We urgently need to expand our ethical toolkit. The mental ...
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  • THE INVENTION OF GOOD AND EVIL
    THE INVENTION OF GOOD AND EVIL
    SAUER, HANNO
    For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Morality is often associated with restraint and coercion; restriction and sacrifice; inquisition, confession and a guilty conscience. Joyless and claustrophobic, it is a device us...
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  • HOW TO LISTEN
    HOW TO LISTEN
    THICH, NHAT HANH
    Listening with compassion can solve our most pressing issues—across global politics and interpersonal relationships and within our own hearts and minds.In How to Listen, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how deep listening is a fundamental building block of good communication. But perhaps more fundamentally, listening is central to our practice, a basic ingredient to stre...
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    Q. 110

  • WHAT ARE CHILDREN FOR?
    WHAT ARE CHILDREN FOR?
    ANASTASIA BERG / WISE, RACHEL
    Having children is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren't making it at all. A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'A book for lovers of sound reasoning.' THE NEW YORKER Across the developed world, fewer and fewer people are becoming parents. We seek self-fulfilment; we want women to find meaning and self-worth outside the household; we wish t...
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  • HOW TO THINK LIKE A PHILOSOPHER
    HOW TO THINK LIKE A PHILOSOPHER
    PETER CAVE
    An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how i...
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    Q. 130

  • A TERRIBLY SERIOUS ADVENTURE
    A TERRIBLY SERIOUS ADVENTURE
    NIKHIL KRISHNAN
    What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What makes a good human being?These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as Gilbert Ryle, J. L. Austin, Elizabeth Anscombe and Iris Murdoch aspired to ...
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    Q. 190

  • SOCRATES
    SOCRATES
    DEVRA LEHMANN
    A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world's first enemy of the state.Named a Best Teen & YA Nonfiction title of 2022 by Kirkus ReviewsSocrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is fa...
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    Q. 170

  • SPINOZA
    SPINOZA
    DEVRA LEHMANN
    An entertaining and accessible introduction to the radical philosopher of freedom of thought and religion is the only biography of Spinoza for young adults. The second title in the Philosophy for Young People series.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureA Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books"Clarity, accessibility and spot-on relevance to i...
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    Q. 170

  • ESSAYS IN LOVE
    ESSAYS IN LOVE
    ALAIN DE BOTTON
    'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in BlackA unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in e...
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  • MEDITATIONS
    MEDITATIONS
    DAVID V. HICKS / C. SCOT HICKS / MARCUS AURELIUS (MARCO AURELIO)
    A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius's timeless book on character, what it takes to be a good leader, and how to live a fulfilling life.Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its height, yet he remained untainted by the immense wealth and absolute power that had corrupted many of his predecessors. He knew the secret of how to live the good life amid tryin...
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  • WHAT WE OWE THE FUTURE
    WHAT WE OWE THE FUTURE
    MACASKILL, WILLIAM
    In this instant New York Times bestseller, a renowned philosopher puts forth the case for longtermism The fate of the world - and the future - is in our hands. Now with a new foreword, What We Owe the Future argues for longtermism: that positively influencing the distant future is our time's key moral priority. It's not enough to reverse climate change or avert a pandemic. We m...
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    Q. 150

  • THE VISIONARIES
    THE VISIONARIES
    EILENBERGER, WOLFRAM
    A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram EilenbergerThe period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty...
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    Q. 310

  • ARGUING FOR A BETTER WORLD
    ARGUING FOR A BETTER WORLD
    ARIANNE SHAHVISI
    Is it sexist to say that "men are trash"? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change?We've all wrestled with questions like these, whether we're shouting at a relative across the dinner table, quarreling with old classmates on social media, or chatting late into the night with friends. Many people give kneejerk answers tha...
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    Q. 210

  • HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF
    HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF
    MARTIN, CLANCY
    'Illuminating, riveting, and - for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are - potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. He didn't write a note. How Not to Kill Yourself is an affirmation of life by someone who has tried to end it multiple times. It's about standing in yo...
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  • GODLESS MORALITY
    GODLESS MORALITY
    RICHARD HOLLOWAY
    If the use of God in a moral debate raises more problems than it solves, is it better to leave God out of the argument altogether and find strong human reasons for the rules we live by? Godless Morality is a refreshing, courageous and human-centered justification for contemporary morality. ...
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  • THE PRACTICING STOIC
    THE PRACTICING STOIC
    WARD FARNSWORTH
    The great insights of the Sotics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone - the most valuable wisdom of...
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    Q. 310

  • HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY
    HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY
    SELLARS, JOHN
    The Hellenistic period was a rich and exciting time for philosophy. It saw the birth of two new schools of thought, Epicureanism and Stoicism, and important developments in Plato's Academy. Aristotelians and Cynics were also active during the period, all of which created a vibrant philosophical landscape. Many of the ideas now associated with early modern and enlightenment phi...
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  • A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST
    A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST
    SOLNIT, REBECCA
    Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics.In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting. Beautifully written, this book combines mem...
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    Q. 140

  • HUMANISM -81%
    HUMANISM
    VARIOS AUTORES
    Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? Does a Godless universe imply moral relativism? With adherents including Einstein, Freud, Philip Pullman, and Frank Zappa, and often described as the thinking person's religion, Humanism aims to make sense of such questions by appealing to shared human values, rationality, a...
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  • PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (A BEGINNER'S GUIDE)
    PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (A BEGINNER'S GUIDE)
    VARIOS AUTORES
    In this lively and entertaining introduction to the philosophy of mind, Edward Feser explores the questions central to the discipline; such as 'do computers think', and 'what is consciousness'; and gives an account of all the most important and significant attempts that have been made to answer them. ...
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    Q. 140

  • MEDITATIONS
    MEDITATIONS
    AURELIUS, MARCUS
    A new translation of the philosophical journey that has inspired luminaries from Matthew Arnold to Bill Clinton in a beautiful hardcover gift edition, with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith s distinctive, award-w...
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  • THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
    THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
    E. M. CIORAN
    "A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone's hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison."—The New YorkerIn this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in th...
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  • THE HOBBIT AND PHILOSOPHY
    THE HOBBIT AND PHILOSOPHY
    BASSHAM, GREGORY / ERIC BRONSON
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic—just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, u003ciu003eThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeyu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eJ.R.R. Tolkien's u003ciu003eThe Hobbitu003c/iu003e is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchantin...
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    Q. 340

  • THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION & HEAVEN AND HELL
    THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION & HEAVEN AND HELL
    ALDOUS HUXLEY
    Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights . . .Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmappe...
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  • UTOPIA
    UTOPIA
    MORE, THOMAS
    In his most famous and controversial book, u003ciu003eUtopiau003c/iu003e, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, po...
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  • THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES
    THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES
    PLATO
    The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety and a defence of the philosopher's l...
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  • TEACHINGS ON LOVE
    TEACHINGS ON LOVE
    THICH, NHAT HANH
    Weaving together traditional stories, personal experiences, and a deep understanding of the Buddha's way of mindful living, Thich Nhat Hanh provides step-by-step practices that foster understanding and intimacy in any relationship and extend our love even to those that cause us pain. Teachings on Love is a treasure-trove of guidance for couples, co-workers, or friends who wish ...
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  • MEDITATIONS
    MEDITATIONS
    MARCUS AURELIUS (MARCO AURELIO)
    The "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts and indulgence, man could acquire virtue and live at one with nature. The Meditations were composed in periods of inaction during the wars which Marcus hated but was compelled to figh...
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