Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that…

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The No. 1 BestsellerBiography of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023The Last Word Listeners'' Choice Award, Irish Book Awards…

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's…

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"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their images with…

Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" addresses the question of how to live well, and…

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Kniha 9780141195391 Joyous Science Friedrich Nietzsche…

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A compilation of the subversive, important and entertaining writer of Hunter S. Thompson - renowned American writer of Fear…

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In our brave new world of Big Tech, work is automated and money melts into air. What comes next as the global capitalist…

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Provides a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. This book follows a logical format,…

Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face…

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World-leading neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial draws on his years of work with patients suffering from the…

Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or…

Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that…

Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining…

Covers different varieties of poetic practice in English. This book discusses the work of poets as wide ranging as W H…

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Entertaining and informative, this rich and diverse collection of over 6000 proverbs (and their origins) is a delight to…

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Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses … magic forests and enchanted towers … little pigs and big bad wolves … Fairy…

The author puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video…

When the author travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain…

From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and…

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Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, this title presents a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the…

Provides the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of…

'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the…

Kniha 9780241614600 People in Love Claire Daverley…

Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of…

The author was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most…

For readers of Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, and Mark Haddon, The Adulterants is a piercingly funny?and cringingly poignant?take…

This text examines Aristotle's Rhetoric as a classic treatise on the arts of public speaking and persuasion which played a…

A key to modern studies of 18th century Western philosophy, the Treatise considers numerous classic philosophical issues,…

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Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)…

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From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the…

Contains poems that features four separate personae who have their own poetic identity. This title contribute to the…

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An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture…

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Includes detailed notes to complement the analysis of religion, and a chronology. The author expounds his personal view of…

In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and…

A philosophically-minded enquiry into the nature of practical activity, asking why people try to do a good job and have…