Philosophy and Thought

Jamie Carlin Watson / What's Good on TV? - Understanding Ethics Through Television (Large Paperback)

    What's Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television presents an introduction to the basic theories and concepts of moral philosophy using concrete examples from classic and contemporary...

Steven Pinker / The Stuff of Thought - Language as a Window into Human Nature(Large Paperback)

  In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are. Why do so many swear words...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - The Glory of the Lord A Theological Aesthetics. Theology : The New Covenant · Volume 7

The Glory of the LordA Theological Aesthetics. Theology : the new covenant · Volume 7 In this final volume of his great work, von Balthasar reflects on the New Testament vision of God's revelation of...

Jacques Derrida - Writing and Difference - PB ( Translated by Alan Bass)

Paperback, published by University of Chicago Press, 1978.  In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read...

Richard Kearney - The Wake of Imagination : Ideas of Creativity in Western Culture - PB

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as:...

Michael Laver - Invitation to Politics - PB

An examination of the theory of politics - what do governments do, what should they do, how power is used and transferred , theories of political power , controls, flaws, and influence.  Originally...

Rudolf Steiner / On Fear (Large Paperback)

Theodore Roszak / The Cult of Information- A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (Large Paperback)

  As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous information does not necessarily lea

Roger Fellows / Philosophy and Technology (Large Paperback)

This collection of essays examines the philosophical and cultural aspects of technology. The issues range widely--from quantum technology to problems of technology and culture in a developing country...

Alvin E. Roth / Who Gets What and Why (Large Paperback)

How our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.In many parts of life – jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date on the internet – price is not the...

James N. Powell / Postmodernism for Beginners - Illustrated (Large Paperback)

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Jerome Bruner / Acts of Meaning (Large Paperback)

Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator...

Rick Hanson / Buddha's Brain (Large Paperback)

The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to...

Elliott E. Johnson / Expository Hermeneutics: An Introduction (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Edward T. Hall / The Silent Language (Large Paperback)

Leading anthropologist Edward Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication amd considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages in this fascinating study...

Michael Bhaskar / Human Frontiers (Large Paperback)

The Future of Big Ideas Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge.The history of humanity is the history...

Peter-Paul Verbeek / Moralizing Technology (Large Paperback)

Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and...

Oxford Publishing / The Thought Box : Very Short Introductions A Mini 19th Century Philosophy Library (6 Book Box Set)

The Thought Box: Very Short Introductions A Mini 19th Century Philosophy Library (6 Book Box Set)   hegel  kierkegaard marx nietzsche schopenhauer everything

Paul Ormerod / Positive Linking (Large Paperback)

Bradley Studies / The Jourrnal of the Bradley Society 1990s (7 Book Collection)

Bradley Studies: The Jourrnal of the Bradley Society 1990s (7 Book Collection) Bradley Studies was a peer-reviewed journal published by the Bradley Society in the United Kingdom. Established in 1995,...

Edmond Grace / Democracy and Public Happiness (Large Paperback)

Democracy and Public HappinessPoliticians claim to govern in the name of ‘the people’ but do we need them? Not if their only interest is in seeking attention for themselves and to enjoy the perks of...

Robert A. Dahl / On Democracy

The last half of the 20th century has bee

Robert Greene / The Concise 48 Laws Of Power

The perfect gift book for the power hungr

Andrew Flew / A Dictionary Of Philosophy

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Joe Bailey / Pessimism (Large Paperback)

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Antony Flew - A Dictionary of Philosophy - PB - 1984

Published in this revised edition, Pan UK.  A guidebook to the history of ideas, a handbook for the student of philosophy, or for the general reader seeking a concise definition and explanation of...

Thomas Paine / Common Sense (Large Paperback)

The Anglo-American writer and political theorist Thomas Paine (1737-1809) boldly spoke out for social and political reforms, and played an active role in the American War of Independence. His great...

Roy Bhaskar / Meta-Reality (Large Paperback)

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Gavriel Salomon / Distributed Cognitions (Large Paperback)

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Arjun Appadurai / Modernity at Large (Large Paperback)

The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In...

Peter Boghossian / A Manual for Creating Atheists (Large Paperback)

For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as...

Thomas a Kempis / The Imitation of Christ

This cla

Mark Poster / What's the Matter with the Internet? (Large Paperback)

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R. G. H. Siu / The Tao of Science (Exact Copy)

''An essay on western knowledge and Eastern Wisdom'', originally 1964.  Siu applies Oriental philosophy to the problems of Western executives and program directors. The picture shown is the actual...

Ilpo Koskinen / Professional Mobile Image (Large Paperback)

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Rutger Bregman / Human kind - A Hopeful History

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Ian J. Deary / Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

For people with little or no knowledge of the science of human intelligence, this volume takes readers to a stage where they are able to make judgments for themselves about the key questions of human...

J. Krishnamurti / What Are You Doing With Your Life

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Czeslaw Milosz / The Captive Mind

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this

W.B Gallie - Peirce and Pragmatism - Vintage Pelican PB 1952

Condition - spine darkened heavily, internally very good, light tanning only.  Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions...

Richard L. Gregory / The Oxford Companion to the Mind (Hardback)

With over 900 entries, ranging from brief definitions to substantial essays on major topics, The Oxford Companion to the Mind takes the reader on a dazzling tour of this endlessly fascinating...

Winin Pereira / From Western Science to Liberation Technology (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Paul Savchenko / What is Labour? (Vintage Paperback)

ABC of Social and Political Knowledge Series. A 1987 Soviet era book on the role of labour in Communist society. Translated from the original Russian. Publishged by Progress House, Moscow.      All...

Jeffrey J. Kripal / Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (Hardback)

Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human...

Jon Elster, Steven Rendall / Reason and Rationality (Hardback)

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes...

Sam Harris / Free Will (Large Paperback)

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of...

Jean Vanier / Jean Vanier : Essential Writings (Large Paperback)

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A.C. Grayling / The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism

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Sohrab Ahmari / The Unbroken Thread : Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos (Hardback)

For millennia, philosophical, ethical and theological reflection was commonplace among the intellectually curious. But the wisdom that some of the greatest minds across the centuries continue to...

Richard Hoggart / The Way We Live Now : Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Hardback)

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A.C. Grayling / What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live (Hardback)

  In his major new book A.C. Grayling examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present. Grayling focuses on the two very different...

Simon Blackburn / Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (Hardback)

From political scandals at the highest levels to inflated repair bills at the local garage, we are seemingly surrounded with unethical behavior, so why should we behave any differently? Why should we...