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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140449280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The trial and condemnation of Socrates for heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibilty.
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By: Randy Pausch
ISBN: 9780733624261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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In September 2007, professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver his last lecture. Randy had been told the month before that he had pancreatic cancer. His lecture that day was called 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams'.
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By: Hans Blumenberg
ISBN: 9781623562304
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140449846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Kwame Anthony Appiah
ISBN: 9781781259245
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarised world are riddled with contradiction.
(Hardback)
By: Orange Hippo!
ISBN: 9781911610632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Condensed into six themes that help you get strategic about modern life, The Little Art of War Book will help you learn how to avoid confrontation and outsmart your competitors. It contains tactics and strategies that are drawn on by modern leaders of business and sports teams.
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By: Peter Salmon
ISBN: 9781837994281
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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This accessible and thought-provoking guide will take you on a captivating exploration of the fundamental questions that form our decisions and actions, asking, what is the right thing to do in a certain set of circumstances What can we base our decision on Is there always a correct decision, or is it always a bit unclear
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By: Alice Roberts
ISBN: 9780349425467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An approachable, uplifting guide to finding happiness and leading a fulfilling life through the wisdom of famous humanists from the past and present
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By: Andrew Copson
ISBN: 9780349434056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A wise and comforting collection of quotes and meditations, together with a guide to humanist funerals, from the Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Little Book of Humanism
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By: Rachel Poulton
ISBN: 9781786858085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2019
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, this approachable little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how human ideas have sculpted the world we live in and the way we think today.
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By: Dalai Lama
ISBN: 9780712605533
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2000
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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As the spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has captured the attention and admiration of the world through his wisdom.
(Paperback, Second Edition, Revised)
By: David Schiller
ISBN: 9781523512454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2021
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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A revised edition of the classic little book, which has over 500,000 copies in print. New material and illustrations make the book even more accessible to readers who are interested in mindfulness, in seizing the moment, in staying steady in hard times.
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By: Rudolf Carnap
ISBN: 9780812695236
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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In this text, Rudolf Carnap analyzes the fundamental elements of experience, the derivation of qualities, the construction of sensory classes and the construction of the special and temporal orders.
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By: Rudolf Carnap
ISBN: 9780812695243
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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This volume asserts that many philosophical controversies really depend upon whether a particular language should be used. The author explores a "Principle of Tolerance", by which everyone is free to mix and match the rules of language.
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By: James Bailey
ISBN: 9781472149688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By: Prof A.C. Grayling
ISBN: 9780753813591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2002
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A look at how best to approach life.
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By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9780140446197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 29th October 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms.
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By: Henry Sidgwick
ISBN: 9780915145287
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1981
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback, 10th Revised edition)
By: Bernard Haisch
ISBN: 9781637480144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
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(Paperback)
By: Sam Harris
ISBN: 9780552776387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 12th April 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith.
In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge.
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By: Peter Singer
ISBN: 9781925240986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Text Publishing
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By: David Edmonds
ISBN: 9780691211961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Barry Smith
ISBN: 9780812696158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Prof A.C. Grayling
ISBN: 9780753820193
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2004
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top philosopher.
