Philosophy & Ideas

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' -…

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan Watts

Alan Watts, key thinker of Western Zen Buddhism, explains how to reconsider our relationship with the world

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

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…