Philosophy & Ideas

The Lost World of Agharti
Alec Maclellan
Examining the ancient legend of the subterranean kingdom known as Agharti.

Driving With Plato
Robert Rowland Smith
Everything you'll need to know about history's greatest thinkers on life's big moments

We-Think
Charles Leadbeater
The man The Spectator calls 'the new wizard of the web' explores the ways in which mass collaboration is dramatically reshaping our approach t…

Selected
Anjana Ahuja
A groundbreaking, definitive exploration of the history and science of leadership that uses untapped evolutionary history and science to explain every…
Breakfast With Socrates
Robert Rowland Smith
A journey through an ordinary day in the company of some extraordinary ideas – the book of the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair that's already destined to…
Complaint
Julian Baggini
'This book could change the way we live … [a] relaxed, affable, yet startlingly lucid analysis of humanity's tendency to complain' – The…

Essays in Zen Buddhism
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
A collection of the most important essays of D.T. Suzuki, the leading authority on Buddhism of the twentieth century
A Week at the Airport
Alain de Botton
An uplifting and unique journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport

Violence
Slavoj Zizek
'The Elvis of cultural theory' confirms his status as the most exciting philosopher in recent history as he explores the nature of violence in…

Infinite Life
Robert Thurman
What if life were not merely meaningful, but had enormous repercussions? How would we approach life differently? A Buddhist considers these questions…

The Concise Seduction
Robert Greene
The companion book to the bestselling Concise 48 Laws of Power, which has now sold over 125,000 copies in the UK. Amoral, ruthless, clever and cunning…

Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
Bronislaw Malinowski
A classic of anthrolopology, explored through the mythologies of cultures

Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
Erich Fromm
How the wisdom of East and West can unite to bring meaning to our lives.