In the second of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled its most essential ideas on self-awareness in…

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• Počet stran 314
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• Rok vydání 2024

As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the…

They...go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished,…

\'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work\' Terry…

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Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to…

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• Rok vydání 2016

A riveting, poetic and powerful work from the author of the International Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian.…

Originally published as The Duck that Won the Lottery, this companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten provides…

Kniha 9781847081414 Nothing To Envy Barbara Demick…

Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome and practice what you preach? Is the grass always in fact greener on the…

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• Rok vydání 2021

The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and…

In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever- increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as…

At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Monk argues, is a determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a…

\nThe bestselling expose of the bad science behind conventional weight loss advice, arguing for low-carb high-fat diets.\n…

Lacan reminds us that psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you are allowed not to enjoy. Since for Lacan…

In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word, or action, however…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe only book you need to read to understand the events of the past four years in Trump\'s America, from the prize-winning…

Since the 1970s people have been murdering their neighbours in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the…

A book that asks - and answers - one of life's most uncomfortable questions: what if I'm wrong?…

• Rok vydání 2018

A witty, brilliant treatise on reading Russian literature…

\nThe reissue of a brilliant, necessary manifesto for women everywhere.\n…

David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and…

Michel Foucault was a twentieth century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural…

\nA brilliant, savagely funny attack on the cult of positive thinking - Ehrenreich\'s most compelling book since Nickel and…

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• Rok vydání 2000

A political and personal history of the aclaimed writer, academic and critic, which reveals the influences which have…

Following on from the success of MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up…

In 1923, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean because they were the 'wrong' religion.…

A beautiful new edition of Edward Said's classic which argues that a beginning is different from (and preferable to) an…

\nA compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined…

\nA ground-breaking exploration of a dog\'s experience of the world and how they can help us understand ourselves better,…

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