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.
Moral Relativism
Steven Lukes
Everyone holds beliefs. So what gives us the right to judge the behaviour of other people in a world where moralities are diverse and conflicting?
Runaway World
Anthony Giddens
'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do o…
The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama's most important book since the pathbreaking End of History
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'…
Driving With Plato
Robert Rowland Smith
Everything you'll need to know about history's greatest thinkers on life's big moments
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 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' -…
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 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
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.