Philosophy

Think Zen is soft music and scented candles? This absolutely fantastic book turns up the ...

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestse...

Henry David Thoreau's essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, is a masterful exploratio...

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and j...

Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman empire from AD 161-180. He wrote the 12 books of the Medi...

Zhuang Zhou was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC du...

Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations...

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In Hume in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Humes life and ...

In Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aquin...

In Confucius in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Confuciuss...

In Heidegger in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Heideggers...

First published in 1710, George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human ...

One of our most brilliant social critics-- author of the bestselling The Middle Mind-- pr...

Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many th...

More Charles Kuralt's American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Ame...

Do you want to live a life full of happiness and peace, but you have no idea where to sta...

Dharma Wheels is an examination of human happiness through the triple lenses of Zen Buddh...

This book will show that the fundamentals, structure, formations, grammar, and syntax are...

In this rich dialogue on surveillance, empire, and power, Roy and Cusack describe meeting...

Non-biological systems are entropic systems. Biological systems are counter-entropic syst...

People have panic attacks when they are in a situation in which they are actually threate...

Economics is therefore a branch of biology, and its logic is the logic of biology, not of...

‘Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty.’ In Praise of Shadows is a...

A powerful and enlightening collection of political philosophy.Delving into the past and ...

The following topics are included in this 2-book combo:  Book 1: In this book, ...

STOICISMStoicism started as far back as the 3rd Century BCE when Zeno of Citium would sit...

Begin your journey toward spiritual exploration and deepen your connection with the earth...

"Money should be used to help others.” "Attachment is the strongest block to realiz...

One of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century, existentialism has h...

This Very Short Introduction introduces listeners to the key concepts of political philos...

This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing." What remain...

The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of th...

The following topics are included in this 3-book combo:  Book 1: What are the f...

The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin describes the role of the State...

David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the gr...

Bertrand Russel’s 1912 book The Problems of Philosophy was Rusell’s attempt t...

Take control of the beginning of each day, and you take control of the way you view your ...

The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring political writings, newly curated ...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sit...

Not quite non-fiction, not quite self-help. It’s a work of art about conflicting ph...

Do you want to find the path to a meaningful and happy life? Have you heard about Stoicis...

Corpus Hermetica are Egyptian Greek wisdom texts from the second century or earlier ...

We make choices all the time—about how to spend our money, about how to spend our t...

Rene Descartes described the pineal gland as "the principal seat of the soul and the...

The Bhagavad Gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between Pandava prince Ar...

Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Being logical is th...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), is the author...

The Bhagavata-purana, (Sanskrit: “Ancient Stories of God [Vishnu]”) is the mo...

Dialogues about a wide range of topics in philosophy and psychoanalysis.