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These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and ...

The future is alongside us, sometimes closer, sometimes further away. Hidden Valleys starts from the perception that the human world is an eerie pl...

Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we don’t love them anymore; that we do love them (though we’re ...

An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence. The difference between s...

The difference between success and failure often hangs on a fascinatingly small and elusive concept that our standard education system never touche...

If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philoso...

We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even t...

Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philoso...

Getting Dressed teaches sociology through the everyday decision of what to wear. It is about the rules that shape how we dress and how and why we c...

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother tr...

Countering the dystopic and the apocalyptic, Star Trek’s Philosophy of Peace and Justice introduces political philosophical reflections on peace, j...

'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has...

'A compelling vision, an urgent necessity, and not beyond reach' Noam ChomskyThe past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has b...

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it.'Generous, beauti...

'One of the best written works on self-awareness.' - Mo GawdatFOREWORD BY NEALE DONALD WALSH_____________The greatest relationship we have in life ...

Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront. What make...

Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue, moderation and self-discipline, adapting this ancient knowled...

Using a range of 'case studies' from Critical Theory to Candy Crush, 'Gangnam Style' to Game of Thrones and Football Manager to Hieronymus Bosch, t...