Philosophy & Ideas
Women & Power
Mary Beard
Number One Sunday Times BestsellerThe gender agenda revisited by Britain's best-known classicist, Mary Beard
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
David Harvey
Marx's Capital explained by its greatest expositor in simple, understandable terms
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile
Roger Scruton
The ideas and principles of conservatism explored and explained by the world's leading thinker on the subject
Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama
Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the e…
Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile
Frank Close
An account of theories of everything in the past, present and future
Truth: Ideas in Profile
Simon Blackburn
One of the world's leading thinkers on truth explains what it is, the different ways of approaching and understanding it, and why it matters
The Ascension Mysteries
David Wilcock
In The Hidden Science of Lost Civilisations, David Wilcock unlocked the mysteries mankind have always struggled to answer: who are we, how did we get…
In Therapy
Susie Orbach
World-renowned therapist Susie Orbach reveals what really goes on in therapy – as heard on Radio 4
How the Zebra Got its Stripes
Léo Grasset
The Just So stories retold in the light of evolution by France's brightest young natural scientist
Communion
Whitley Strieber
This UFO classic and the basis for the cult film starring Christopher Walken, Communion is one of the most thought-provoking books of the twentieth-ce…
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities
Roy Sorensen
An entertaining miscellany of logical curiosities – from anecdotes and proofs to puzzles and puns – found outside the classroom.
The Ways of the World
David Harvey
The essential anthology of writings by the world's leading Marxist thinker
Social Theory: Ideas in Profile
William Outhwaite
Social theory lets us understand the full complexity of the world we live – this book explains how
Shifting Sands
Raja Shehadeh
A fresh look at the Middle East today, tomorrow and in the past: fifteen writers, with an introduction by Raja Shehadeh, author of the Orwell Prize-wi…
Risk Wise
Polly Morland
A thoughtful and thought-provoking journey into the everyday world of risk, exploring what it means to be 'risk wise'.
Political Order and Political Decay
Francis Fukuyama
The most important book about the history and future of politics since The End of History
Politics: Ideas in Profile
David Runciman
An accessible introduction to politics from David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University. The first title in the IDEAS IN PROFILE ser…
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
David Harvey
Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world's leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that w…