This Life

Love Understood

For Love Understood , Laura Mucha has interviewed hundreds of strangers, from the ages of 8 to 95 in more than 40 countries, asking them

The Many Faces Of Beauty

The sixteen essays, by eminent scientists, critics, scholars, and artists, are divided into five parts. In the first, a mathematician, physicist, and two philosophers ad...

Introducing: Critical Theory (Graphic Guide)

Cum ar putea suna teoria care conciliază toate teoriile? Este știința o ideologie? Cine au fost Adorno, Horkheimer sau Școala de la Frankfurt? Din 1960

Art of war

Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct

Introducing: Logic (Graphic Guide)

Logica este coloana vertebrală a civilizației occidentale, principiul care ține laolaltă sistemele filozofice, cele științifice și dreptul. Cu toate acestea, în ciuda im...

Inside the Learning Revolution

Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. But for all its obvious

Momma Zen

A Zen teacher and mother explains how the daily challenges of mothering can lead one to discover greater equanimity, fearlessness, and compassion--a work of uncommon

Bergson - Great Thinkers on Modern Life

The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary everyday dilemmas. These books

Utopia

For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society—from Plato to H. G. Wells, from Cloudcuckooland to

More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age

Do you consider yourself stoical? Do a bit of meditation or mindfulness practice? Buddhism and Stoicism have a lot to offer modern readers seeking the

Meditations

A collection of personal writings covering an array of topics. Marcus delves into spiritual reflections and exercises, which he developed as a leader, in his

Knowledge is power

Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena

Medieval Philosophy

Why do good things happen to bad people? Can we prove whether God exists? What is the difference between right and wrong? Medieval Philosophers were

A CLASSICAL EDUCATION: the stuff you wish you'd been taught at school

A Classical Education provides all of these classical facts that modern schooling leaves out and many more. Perfect for parents who wish to teach their

Within Reason : A Life of Spinoza

The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventual...

The Prophet

Gibran's protagonist, called 'the Prophet', delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life: love, marriage and children
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Women Kind

Când doctorul Kristin Ferguson, director al unei companii australiene, a decis că s-a săturat de abuzul online de care femeile au parte, a întors roata

Know It All Anthropology

Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet? These

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it

Daniel Klein, autorul bestseller-ului ''Travels with Epicurus'', co-autor al ''Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar'', a conceput ideea acestei cărți încă din anii

Memento Mori

De la autorul „Veni, Vidi, Vici”, un ghid despre felul în care romanii abordau problema îmbătrânirii și a mortalității. În această carte, Peter Jones ne

Does Santa Exist?

Metafizica nu este de obicei o problemă de râs. Dar în mâinile aclamatului scriitor de comedie și cărturar Eric Kaplan, o căutare a adevărului despre

The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe

From religion to philosophy, humanity has traditionally sought out absolutes to explain the world around us, but as science has developed, relativity has swept away

The Complete Tao Te Ching with the Four Canons of the Yellow Emperor

In 1973, in Mawangdui, China, a large number of silk manuscripts were discovered at an early Han burial place. Among these were two versions of

The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard

Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best

Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide

Richard Appignanesi continuă o căutare personală a existențialismului în starea sa inițială. El începe cu întrebarea lui Camus referitoare la sinucidere: „Trebuie ca via...

Secrets of Angels and Demons

From the team that brought you the bestselling SECRETS OF THE CODE: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code, comes the

A Short History of Falling

A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and

LITTLE BOOK OF BIG IDEAS: 150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History (Little Books)

An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history - from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politics, economics and art

THINK DIFFERENTLY

From philosophical `people skills' to ethical and moral questions about our lifestyle choices, philosophy teaches us to ask the right questions, even if it doesn't

Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide

'Introducing Aristotle' guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's auth...

Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Plato oferă o prezentare clară a teoriei cunoașterii lui Platon și explică modul în care aceasta i-a orientat concepțiile despre politică, despre etică și

Wise Words

O serie de curiozități filozofice, atât distractive cât și instructive, referitoare la o selecție eclectică de teme, de la sfaturi la îmbătrânire, de la vorbitul

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In these

Introducing: Psychology (Graphic Guide)

What is psychology? When did it begin? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific?

Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics,

Classic Quotations

A handy little reference book which users will enjoy dipping into to find apposite quotes or just for the sheer pleasure of reminding themselves of

Itchy, Tasty

Itchy, Tasty: An Unofficial History of Resident Evil chronicles the development of Capcom's popular video game series, from before the release of the 1996 original

The Tipping Point

THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face -

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

“Introducing SARTRE a Graphic Guide” pentru unul dintre cele mai faimoase personaje ale filozofiei. Jean-Paul Sartre a fost descris cândva ca fiind, alături de Charles

A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics: From Plato to Winnie the Pooh

Ideile mari vin uneori din cele mai neașteptate locuri. În această introducere, James M Russell scoate frica din filozofie și selectează șaptezeci și șase de

Story of Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy vede filozofia pentru ceea ce este: o căutare pasionantă, exaltantă, pentru înțelegerea umană, care nu poate fi redusă la categorii rigide

The Essence of Vedanta

Vedanta, writes Brian Hodgkinson, hinges upon this truly remarkable idea, that everything, without any exception whatsoever, is the one spirit. In this book he first

Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and infl...

Waking Up

For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris' new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed

AutoBioPhilosophy: An Intimate Story of What it Means to be Human

Robert Rowland Smith’s life story involves a love triangle, office politics, police raids, illegal drugs, the academic elite and a near-death experience. It sees him

I Think, Therefore I Am (I Used to Know That ...) , Lesley Levene

Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated: (Berkeley)whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to...

Introducing: Bertrand Russell (Graphic Guide)

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning

More Than Happiness< Antonia Macaro

Budismul și stoicismul au multe de oferit cititorilor moderni care caută o viață mai bună. În 'More than Happiness', Antonia Macaro aprofundează ambele filozofii, concen...

Unlearning the Basics

In fresh and inviting language and making frequent use of strikingly clear diagrams and illustrations, Unlearning the Basics challenges many of our common-sense ...

Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide

Ludwig Wittgenstein lodges in popular imagination as the modern Socrates, the master of enigmatic logic, the fascinating and attractive icon of modernism. But what did

Meditations

The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180 AD, not only reflect on the philosophical idea of Stoicism,

Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide

Acest ghid este o introducere accesibilă în opera lui Immanuel Kant, unul dintre cei mai cunoscuți filosofi ai Iluminismului. Contribuțiile filosofice ale lui Kant în

Meditations

Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. Filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behaviour,...

Philosophy in 100 Quotes

Famous philosophy quotations explored and explained

Why We Think the Things We Think

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you

Philosophy Hacks

Discover the simple way to understand and remember the most groundbreaking concepts in 3,000 years of philosophical thought. Each idea is broken down into three

Introducing: Descartes (Graphic Guide)

Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything - even his own physical existence. Most people also know that he

Republic (Hero Classics)

Pensees

Blaise Pascal's unfinished work, Pensées, is an eloquent apology for the Christian faith. In a fragmented collection of notes, Pascal examines Christianity as well as

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