Philosophy
Curvology
David Bainbridge
Format: Paperback
Using evolutionary biology and cutting-edge psychology, Professor Bainbridge explains why women are the only female animal to have curves, and how these curves rule our lives.
Notes On Suicide
Simon Critchley
Format: Paperback
'We have to look suicide in the face, long and hard, and see what features, what profile, what inherited character traits and wrinkles emerge.'
Unlearning with Hannah Arendt
Marie Luise Knott, translated by David Dollenmayer
Format: Paperback
A fascinating and intensely readable examination of Hannah Arendt's life and philosophy, focusing in particular on the controversy caused by her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Plato at the Googleplex
Rebecca Newberger Newberger Goldstein
Format: Paperback
What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters? A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thinker.
How to Be Normal
Guy Browning
Format: Paperback
From the bestselling author of Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade and Never Push When You Can Pull comes a new volume of answers to life's most troublesome questions.
The Empathy Exams
Leslie Jamison
Format: Paperback
A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent.
Moral Tribes
Joshua Greene
Format: Paperback
'After two and a half millennia, it's rare to come across a genuinely new idea on the nature of morality, but in this book Josh Greene advances not one but several. Moral Tribes is a landmark in our understanding of morality and the moral sense'. - Steven Pinker
The Quest for a Moral Compass
Kenan Malik
Format: Paperback
A history that has never been told before: the story of the global search for moral truth.
On Forgiveness
Richard Holloway
Format: Paperback
'The book everyone needs to read' Jeanette Winterson, The Times
Risk Wise
Polly Morland
Format: Paperback
A thoughtful and thought-provoking journey into the everyday world of risk, exploring what it means to be 'risk wise'.
