Quick view The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted?In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens Now: €5.99 MSRP: €11.25 Was: In this frank and damning expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing Now: €6.25 MSRP: Was: In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the devastating human and environment… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Now: €9.99 MSRP: Was: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Now: €6.25 MSRP: Was: Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time. 'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connec… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread acro… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten by Julian Baggini Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Is it right to eat a pig that wants to be eaten?Are you really reading this book cover, or are you in a simulation? If God is all-powerful, could he create a square circle? Here are 100 of the most intriguing thought experiments f… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink Now: €17.99 MSRP: Was: 'No regrets.' You've heard people proclaim it as a philosophy of life. That's nonsense, even dangerous, says Daniel H. Pink in his latest bold and inspiring work. Everybody has regrets. They're a fundamental part of our lives. And… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Power of Words by Simone Weil Now: €8.75 MSRP: Was: 'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth c… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Precipice by Noam Chomsky Now: €5.00 MSRP: €9.99 Was: In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow. 'For the left, elections are a brief interlu… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen? A train crash, a department store fire, an assassination. What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster? In 1966, John Barker, a British psychia… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Now: €6.25 MSRP: Was: Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich. Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers by Andrew Gold Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: We all keep secrets. 97 per cent of us are hiding a secret right now, and on average we each hold thirteen at any one time. There’s a one-in-two chance that those secrets involve a breach of trust, a lie or a financial impropriety… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Rag and Bone Shop by Veronica O'Keane Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Road Less Travelled by M.Scott Peck Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: The ten million copy New York Times bestselling personal development classic. 'Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.' A timeless classic in personal development, The Road Less Travelled is a landmar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Salt Path by Raynor Winn Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD & WAINWRIGHT GOLDEN BEER BOOK PRIZE 2018 Give the gift of nature with this ins… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future by Hannah Critchlow Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn't exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what … Add to Cart The item has been added