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On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else.

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As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler) have responded to tragedy and loss, from The Psalms to Albert Camus and Primo Levi.

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'The book everyone needs to read' Jeanette Winterson, The Times

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An eminent philosopher reflects on the nature of friendship, past and present

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Expresses the author's views on relationships. This title contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and helps us to understand the nature of humanity.

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A lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity - that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual. In this series of reflections, the author considers how we define ourselves and what identity has meant and continues to mean in different cultures.

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The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society

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What is kindness Does it make us happier And does it have a place in a selfish world This title presents an analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world.

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Explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, this title proposes a freedom to think, unite, and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms, as long as we cause no harm to others.

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Explores why our fundamental rights and freedoms are indispensable. This book tells about the threats to our freedoms and shows the unprecedented pressures those rights are under.

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A new translation of the final work of French philosopher Jean Cavaills.

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Simone Weil is one of the most intransigent and taxing of spiritual masters, always willing to push her thinking-and us-one step beyond the apparently reasonable in pursuit of the one truth, the one good.

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William Hazlitt's tough combative writings on subjects ranging from slavery to the imagination, boxing matches to the monarchy, established him as one of the greatest radicals of his age and have insspired journalists and political satirists ever since.

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Returning politics to its original and necessary meaning: the organization of dissent

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Schopenhauer's perception of the importance of art, morality and self awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless, meaningless world radically transformed our understanding of the individual and remains a searing vision of the human condition.

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On the Suffering of the World is a collection of the later aphoristic writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, known for their incisive, aphoristic style and dark, pessimistic view of human existence.

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A unique interdisciplinary collection of papers and commentaries by leading researchers and rising scholars, representing the latest research on consciousness, mind, and brain.

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WHAT EXACTLY ARE HALLUCINATIONS ARE THEY ACTUALLY DOORS TO ANOTHER REALITY

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A provocative and probing argument showing how human beings can for the first time in history take charge of their moral fate.

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"A grand, unified 'natural philosophy of mind' that draws equally from the embodied cognition and cognitive neuroscience literature"--

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This volume presents some of the essential writings of Paracelsus, making his treatises on medicine, philosophy, religion, and politics available to the general reader. An introduction recounts the life of this celebrated Swiss alchemist.

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An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.

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Passion for Creation contains 37 sermons by the noted 14th-century mystic Meister Eckhart, along with Matthew Fox's original commentary. Eckhart's themes were the goodness of creation, the divine blood in each person, the need to let go and let be--a creation-centered spirituality--themes which Fox has championed as a spiritual path for the new millennium.