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Essential reading for serious students of Chinese practical arts, including medicine, martial arts and FengShui, Master Zhongxian Wu and Dr Karin T...

How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science? A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be sur...

This book deploys an innovative narrative device to mount an exercise in (popular) political philosophy. It presents Plato as the Reith Lecturer br...

This volume is based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017-18. It consists of fourteen original papers in which lea...

'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar Wilde More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivit...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksJon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: sham...

In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting...

Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth li...

Hailed by the Washington Post as a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain, a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the...

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsi...

'Smart, engaging and funny. It will make you question everything you think you know about what you want' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible...

In a promotional video for the eighth season of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David appears as Godzilla, walking through the streets of New Yor...

Stranger Things and Philosophy is an important book, the first of its kind to examine the fantastical world of this award-winning, widely beloved, ...

'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen FryWhich philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of blac...

From the man who has inspired millions of people to transform their lives and create their heart's desire comes his latest book on seeking and embr...

Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical ...