St Paul

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St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Misunderstoo …

Pot Planet

Marijuana is cultivated in nearly every region of the world, from the jungles of Laos to the bedsits of Manchester – and is smoked and enjoyed for medicinal, recreational and spiritual purposes by an …

The Black Mirror

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In this beautifully written personal meditation on life and living, Raymond Tallis reflects on the fundamental fact of existence: that it is finite. Inspired by E. M. Forster’s thought that ‘Death des …

The Book of the People

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In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writ …

Beyond Good and Evil

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First published in 1886, Beyond Good and Evil was created at a time of huge political upheaval. Subtitled ‘Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future’, Freidrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece attacked philosophe …

Prepared for the Worst

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‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ — Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as hav …

The Pyramids

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How did a people who lived nearly five thousand years ago, who knew neither iron nor bronze and who lacked mastery of elementary rules of calculation, manage to construct enormous stone structures wit …

The Qur'an

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The Qur’an: A Biography is a beautifully written and authoritative account of one of the world’s most famous, and most misunderstood books.Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the …

The Village Effect

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Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker explores the impact of face-to-face contact from …

Murder in Amsterdam

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It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-I …

Plato at the Googleplex

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What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thin …

The Kingdom of Infinite Space

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From the act of blushing and the amount of manganese in our tears (tears of pain contain more than tears of distress) to the curiousness of a kiss, The Kingdom of Infinite Space explores the astonishi …

Green Philosophy

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The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-explo …

The Quest for a Moral Compass

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In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern …

The Uses of Pessimism

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Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallaci …

Four Meditations on Happiness

In this original and thought-provoking book philosopher Michael Hampe sets out to help us understand happiness. The right and proper path to a happy life is a topic that has been debated for millennia …