Philosophy

The international bestseller—a collection of delightfully human stories that reveal the ways compassion and empathy can bring out the best in all of us. “Every day is a Gift. Open it. Do not throw it away.” The relentless pace of the...

Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously...

In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in...

A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-garde. More than 250 color photos.

"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art notmade by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that. Geniuses...

An Economist Best Book of the YearFrom our "greatest living statistical communicator" (Tim Harford) comes an invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding—and learning to embrace—risk and uncertainty in our daily lives.   How dangerous...

Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the...

The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabalists,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.“This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought...

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1844) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the...

The first manga adaptation of one of the world’s greatest twentieth-century fiction classics. 'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' An outsider in society, an outsider in his own life, Meursault seems indifferent to everything...

A timely and thought-provoking corrective to the generalized fantasies about relationships that permeate Western culture. Here is a challenge to greater personal responsibility, a call for individual growth as opposed to the search for rescue by others...

In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic...

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning...

Not quite non-fiction, not quite self-help. It's a work of art about conflicting philosophies. Many books believe they know how you should live. But each book disagrees with the next. In "How to Live", each chapter believes it knows how you should live...

A practical application of his philosophy to contemporary problems, this book makes the wisdom of Socrates more accessible than ever before.How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life? Socrates is the quintessential...

Few know how to live a life with minimal attachments like Buddhist monks. Now you can tap into their expertise to free up your own life, whether you're bogged down by mental hang-ups, physical clutter or something else entirely.Feeling overwhelmed? Step...

'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' -- Elias Canetti.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRWELL.One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is...

Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant...

A seminal study of slavery and the British Empire that influenced generations of scholars, theorists and historians, Williams' trenchant critique of the corrosive bonds between capitalism and the slave trade encourages entirely new ways of understanding...