The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elusive. Freud's recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient's past transformed the way we...

From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalismTIMEand MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024PROSPECTand...

Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving.Inand The Will to Change,...

What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?'Combining brilliant insight and razor-sharp prose,and Listening to Grasshoppersand is Arundhati Roy's essential exploration of the political picture in India today. In these essays she takes a...

Riveting, timely and truly revelatory. The Organisation Todt is the Nazi-era secret that still needs to emerge from the shadows' DAMIEN LEWIS, author ofand SAS Brothers in Armsand andand The Nazi Hunters'Charles Dick has done a major service to the history of the Third...

This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation.Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two...

In 1721, in his famous Lettres persane (The Persian Letters), the French philosopher Montesquieu posed the question Comment peut-on être persan?' The answer to that question is perhaps an even more wide-ranging, challenging and fascinating conundrum today. In his exploration of where such an...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedyand “Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war...

From the very first moment she set foot in South Korea, Barbara Zitwer, literary agent to some of the most celebrated, prize-winning Korean authors, fell head-over-heels in love, discovering there a renewed sense of happiness and energy.In this witty, charming book, Zitwer shares all...

Wide-ranging, witty and fresh … a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford,and Financial Timesand Best Summer Books 2022 Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller'and Simon Schama Thought-provoking and beautifully written'and Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Post A sweeping and persuasive manifesto … witty...

John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . . A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time' Nigel Warburton,and Five BooksWhy has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are...

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could...

Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian...

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Subtle and compelling.'and ObserverAre we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled 'snowflakes'? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children's futures? Are Generation X the saddest generation? Will Generation Z fix the climate crisis?In this original and deeply researched book, Professor...

Dasht-o-Wujod ki Masafat

Feel your everyday stresses melt away with 48 simple, accessible and achievable lessons in this beautiful mindfulness guideFrom the renowned Bhuddist monk and million-copy bestselling author ofand Zen: The Art of Simple Living, Shunmyo Masuno_________Learn to let go of stress, changeand howand you worry,...

Aand NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLERDo we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the universe think?Physicists are great at complicated research, but they are less good at telling us why it matters. In this...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFand THE THINGS YOU CAN SEE ONLY WHEN YOU SLOW DOWN -and OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD'Reading this is like receiving a warm hug'and Vex King, author ofand Good Vibes, Good Life'A warm and reassuring path through the most...

Discover the timeless wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, one of history's greatest Stoic philosophers, in this compelling collection of quotes and sayings.Marcus Aurelius lived a life that epitomized the principles of Stoicism, gaining profound control over his thoughts, emotions, and actions.and The Marcus Aurelius Book...

Winner of the RSL Ondaatje PrizeShortlisted for theand Guardianand First Book Award A striding, glorious book . . . A flat-out masterpiece'and Theand New York Times Book ReviewCaught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion....

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?"Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."-President Barack Obama"Deneen's book is valuable because it focuses on today's...

A Book of the Year inand The Economistand andand Daily MailA Barack Obama 2024 Summer Reading List Pick'One of the most important non-fiction books of the year' -and Sunday TimesBoys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects:...

A theoretical physicist's grand tour of how life emerged on earth and how human civilization will begin expanding beyond our home planetHumanity has always looked up at the night sky and wondered what lies beyond our world. Now, we are on the precipice of...

The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship-attracted legions of adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. Though Epicurus faced hostile opposition for centuries after his death, he counts among his...

Brain Drain And Beyond

Reasons Not to Worry

Stoicism is a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the 3rd century BCE. It is a philosophy that stresses positive emotions over negative and helps in providing a framework for living well and achieving happiness. Embraced by emperors in...

The most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of this esoteric but infinitely practical bestselling book.and "No one has done better in conveying Lao Tsu's simple and laconic style of writing, so as to produce an English version almost as suggestive of the many...

A must-read account from a heroic reporter who has taken on the world's most dangerous tech company' - Chris Miller, award-winning author ofand Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology'Revealing. A story about power, control and the hidden battles shaping what...

Big companies are using maths to take from the poor and give to the rich. Maths professor Noah Giansiracusa shows how you can beat the system using simple hacks anyone can learn.'See what the algorithms are trying to hide from you, and even better,...

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender-based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream-systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has...

This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts...

This book completely changed how I see myself growing older. It's not just about adding years to your life - it's about making those years incredible. A must-have guide to living longer and better!'and - MEL ROBBINSA prominent US gerontologist's practical, science-based guide to...

THE FINAL INSTALLMENT IN THE STOIC VIRTUES SERIES FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING SENSATIONWisdom depends on curiosity. It demands humility. It requires a willingness to learn from the past in order to overcome the obstacles of the present - and we need it more...

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder'sand Sophie's Worldand has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home...

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Philosophy

Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state that obliterated linguistic diversity. This centralisation...

Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the national philosopher of Pakistan, is among the world's great poets and thinkers. His poetic creations are famous, but his prose writings have been buried in old journals and are no longer available to us. Even in pre-partition India, they were...

Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.Inand Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us...

Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad' Blake MorrisonWritten in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, theand Meditationsand of Marcus...

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.GREAT IDEAS....

There have been many political philosophies published throughout the time of literate man, but few have made such an impact in so few words as Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. This eminently quotable treatise on the nature of rulers is unsettling in that it does...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedyand “Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war...

The unputdownable new thriller and Richard andamp; Judy Book Club Pick from theand Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand Everyone Here is Lying. I inhaled this book in less than 48 hoursand . . .and What Have You Done?and exceeded all expectations.' LIZ NUGENT, bestselling...

The Philosophy Bookand answers the most profound questions we all have. It is your visual guide to the fundamental nature of existence, society, and how we think.Discover what it means to be free, whether science can predict the future, or how language shapes our...

More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, "Fallout "painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA's errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of...

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis...