Philosophy & Ideas
In our Philosophy & Ideas list, multimillion-selling author Ryan Holiday (The Daily Stoic) makes Stoic philosophy accessible and actionable, while Robert Greene distils ancient wisdom into life lessons in The Law of the Sublime and the Venerable Bokyeong Sunim explores Zen wisdom in One Day a Cat Came to Me. Essential reading for anyone interested in Stoicism, ethics, existentialism and life’s big questions.
The Enigma of Capital
David Harvey
Radical sociologist David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world, why it resulted in the current financial crisis – and why it…
Essays in Zen Buddhism
D.T. Suzuki
A collection of the most important essays of D.T. Suzuki, the leading authority on Buddhism of the twentieth century
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker tackles our relationship to mortality and searches for alternative ways to live
Driving With Plato
Robert Rowland Smith
Everything you'll need to know about history's greatest thinkers on life's big moments
The Age of Empathy
Frans de Waal
Empathy is not just a human trait – we can see it across the animal kingdom as a key element of evolutionary success
A Week at the Airport
Alain de Botton
An uplifting and unique journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport
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…
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 t…
Complaint
Julian Baggini
'This book could change the way we live … [a] relaxed, affable, yet startlingly lucid analysis of humanity's tendency to complain' -…
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…
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 Art Of Seduction
Robert Greene
From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a mesmerising handbook handbook on seduction
The Concise Art of Seduction
Robert Greene
From the author of the bestselling The Art of Seduction, a mesmerising condensed handbook
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…
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.