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Sun Tzu
The oldest surviving treatise on strategy, written in China some two and a half thousand years ago. Sun Tzu writes on terrain, deception and... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ichiro Kishimi
A young man visits a philosopher and argues over the thesis that we are free to shape our own lives, independent of the past and others' exp... (Automatically generated book description)
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Alistair Charles Rolls
A scholarly study of the Sartre novel Nausea. Alistair Charles Rolls rereads the text and places it between philosophy and narrative art. Ac... (Automatically generated book description)
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Alain De Botton
Alain de Botton asks why travel so rarely delivers what anticipation promises, and reads Baudelaire, Hopper and Humboldt alongside. Not a gu... (Automatically generated book description)
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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker argues that language is not a cultural artefact but an instinct, wired in like sight. He offers child speech, sign languages a... (Automatically generated book description)
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Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek explains platforms such as Google, Uber and Amazon as an economic form of their own, living on data and tending towards monopol... (Automatically generated book description)
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Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan approach the question of life from symbiosis: cells arose from swallowed bacteria, and cooperation explains m... (Automatically generated book description)
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Alain De Botton
Alain de Botton asks why anxiety about ones standing is so widespread, finds the causes in the history of equality, and proposes remedies fr... (Automatically generated book description)
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Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom explains cruelty in history through group dynamics and competition between cultures. Contentious, and written expressly against... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine argues that the laws of nature are not reversible: time has a direction, and chance belongs to physics. Nobel laureate in che... (Automatically generated book description)
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Liang Zhuge
Two Chinese statesmen and generals develop Sunzis art of war into a handbook of leadership. Translated and annotated by Thomas Cleary. (Automatically generated book description)
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Ichiro Kishimi
The English sequel to The Courage to Be Disliked. Kishimi and Koga continue the dialogue and explore how Alfred Adler's principles can lead ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Tamler Sommers
Nine conversations about morality, conducted by Tamler Sommers with philosophers, psychologists and primatologists. Unacademic and argumenta... (Automatically generated book description)
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Dean A. Kowalski
Dean A. Kowalski introduces philosophy by taking films as the starting point: epistemology, ethics, free will. (Automatically generated book description)
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William Viney
William Viney examines waste as a cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic phenomenon across the centuries. The book covers sculpture, literat... (Automatically generated book description)
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht looks for a language for what is beautiful in sport, beyond the usual explanations. (Automatically generated book description)
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Pasquale Porro
A historical and doctrinal analysis of the transformation of the concept of time from the medieval debate to early modern philosophy. With 2... (Automatically generated book description)
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Caroline Warman
Caroline Warman examines Denis Diderot's little-known late work Éléments de physiologie and situates it within the history of materialism fr... (Automatically generated book description)
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Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff travelled through eight countries asking about the everyday virtues. (Automatically generated book description)
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Ayn Rand
Short extracts from Ayn Rands writings explain objectivism. (Automatically generated book description)
