Philosophy & Ideas
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' -…
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo – our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really a…
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.