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Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by InazoNitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a hugeimpact both...

Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...

Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was...

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121_180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Socrates' most dedicated student, Plato, offers a detailed and eye-opening account of the Socratic belief in one's own responsibility through Socrates' dialogue with...

Author: Frank Sewall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Meditations is considered the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy.

Author: Format: Paperback Number of Pages: One of the greatest works created by any culture and one of the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The...

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of Confucius' sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express...

Author: Martin Hagglund Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'It is always lucid, and is at its heart remarkably simple. You could extract its essence and offer it to thirsty...

Author: Richard Bryan McDaniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread...

Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most well-known American nature writers, essayists and poets.

Author: James M. Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment...

Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this accessible and important follow up to The Art of Happiness His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us how...

Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty....

Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week . . . 'Rivetingly fresh and stunning' Sunday Times 'A tour...

Author: Amy Weatherly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Is it just me Am I the only one who's lonely Am I the only one without friends If...

Author: Russell Re Manning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Whether you wish to understand the key differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, to glimpse the many gods of...

Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do - but it is also the closest you...

Author: Hellfried Krusche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Yoga philosophy and Freud's revolutionary approach to psychology could not have been developed in more different times, places, or...

Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 With his trademark warmth and humour, His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us how to find happiness despite the challenges...

Author: Massimo Pigliucci Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000 year old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become...

Author: Robert M Pirsig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of...

Author: Hugh Mackay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 How can you be sure you're doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong?...

Author: Selina O'Grady Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Christianity is tolerant, Islam is not. Islam is an inherently violent, ossified religion which can never come to terms with the...

Author: Niall Kishtainy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds...

Author: Sissela Bok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Lying, a brilliant exploration of happiness set in the context of the world's great philosophers, leaders,...

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: In this collection of essays, Emerson reflects on friendship, love, heroism, and the other qualities which represent the nest humanity has...

Author: Colin McGinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Pithy, direct, and bold- essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.In Philosophical...

Author: Lao Tzu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 An evocative and poetic translation of this great ancient treasure, illustrated with dramatic black and silver photographs that perfectly capture the...

Author: Maria Michela Sassi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 An acclaimed study of the diverse origins of ancient Greek philosophyIn this acclaimed book, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual...

Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 German philosophy, famed for its high-minded Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban and industrial society in the...

Author: Stephen Prothero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Jesus the Black Messiah; Jesus the Jew; Jesus the Hindu sage; Jesus the Haight-Asbury hippie: these Jesuses join the...

Author: Mara Freeman (Mara Freeman) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 An experiential guide to the spiritual path of the Holy Grail * Traces the evolution of the Holy Grail...

Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...

Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social...

Author: Anna Katharina Schaffner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today...

Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the century China. In...

Author: Julian Baggini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (17111776) is perhaps best known...

Author: John Cottingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today The...

Author: Alan Ryan (Princeton University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United...

Author: Kamala Tiyavanich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and...

Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...

Author: Lisa Whittle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Learn how to see the good, again, even after hard times. What does it feel like to come back...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the...

Author: Christoph Turcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so...