Philosophy

One of the most foundational skills we can have is the ability to understand what another person is going through. Seeing others clearly and compassionately has never been more important, but it does take conscious effort and awareness. We’re...

An urgent manifesto to defeat authoritarianism, by one of the world’s great progressive voices. Today, the USA is a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires. As inequalities grow starker and authoritarianism takes...

Originally published in 2004 and updated in 2016, this beacon of positivity and possibility remains as relevant as ever, urging readers eschew despair and strive for forward movement, however small.“No writer has better understood the mix of fear...

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile,...

A lyrical work of philosophy that draws from the work of Spinoza, George Eliot, biographers, memoirists, and more to examine how wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual human lives.Transcendence for Beginners is an innovative book about...

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of LifeA healthy mind knows how to hope, hanging on tenaciously to the reasons to keep going.A healthy mind resists unfair comparisons, not allowing others' successes to throw it off course.A...

This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers has long been an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and...

Volume 1 of the classic anthology of political thought: a comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Locke and Montesquieu. As an introduction to political theory and science, this standout collection...

In this delightful volume executed with immense warmth, humour and insight, philosopher Mark Rowlands mines the countless ways we can learn from our four-legged friends in the art of living in the moment and being contented with our existence. If a...

2021 Hardcover Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described...

For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth. When...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago, the ancient philosopher speaks...

With a glistening resume to speak to his knowledge of the human brain, Andrew Huberman has taken to the page to bring you all the important do's and don'ts for facing stress and whatever else life throws at you. Dr. Andrew Huberman, host of the...

Since childhood, Erasmus has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, and unpredictable secular world, until the day that a higher power decides it is only these...

Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of...

A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure​.What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black...

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and...

From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count.   ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ’ -- ALAIN DE BOTTON‘ Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare … another one-sitting...

***INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a...