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Following on the success of the Verso diary, Verso are now launching a new, beautifully designed notebook. Inspired by the original covers of New L...

Anime and Philosophy focuses on some of the most-loved, most-intriguing anime films and series, as well as lesser-known works, to find what lies at...

Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and...

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupré introduces and explains the philosophical questions around knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethic...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new c...

We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we do not notice just how much damage is being done to us daily by the images we see and t...

One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when were feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift ...

How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore th...

- Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like?...

Throughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded ...

So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - ...

A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements. Many books seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants t...

Stories shape us and give us meaning - but is it coincidence that the same seven basic plots repeat over time and across the world? What if stori...

What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes the des...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Bo...

Somewhere near the heart of existence, shimmers the ethereal beauty of the mystery of Time. Though seemingly familiar to us all, time harbours secr...

Somewhere near the heart of existence, shimmers the ethereal beauty of the mystery of Time. Though seemingly familiar to us all, time harbours secr...

The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy TV show about the afterlife. Eleanor dies and finds herself in the Good Place, which she understands must be mi...

Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding...

By many accounts, HBO's The Wire was and remains the greatest and most important television drama of all time. Conceived by writers David Simon and...

If you've ever been dumped, fired, or experienced any semblance of rejection, then boy do we have the book for you. GLAMOUR ...

All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whe...

How to reclaim wonder in our lives and achieve the good life. All of us experience a sense of wonder at some point in our lives. Perhaps you felt ...

In Questions of Taste, the first book in any language on the subject, philosophers such as Roger Scruton and wine professionals like Andrew Jefford...

Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case fo...

If you've ever been dumped, fired, or experienced any semblance of rejection, then boy do we have the book for you. GLAMOUR ...

In The Handmaid''s Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The...

The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised...

Covering the biggest names, including Socrates, Seneca, St Augustine, Descartes, Marx and Nietzsche, I Think Therefore I Am provides a handle for a...

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you ac...

In Time is Running Out: Reflections on an Alternative Way of Being, John Reed presents the reader with an honest and uncompromising appraisal of ho...

A dictionary is a guide to a language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life speaks: that of emotions. It is an a...

In Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy, philosophers explore the momentous issues and the fascinating puzzles raised by Marvels compelling series...

Frank Herbert's Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions...

The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of ...

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly ...

For decades business management teams have learned lessons and absorbed wisdom from an array of disciplines psychology, sociology, biology and mor...

Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analys...