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On Reflection
looking for Life's Meaning
2024 || Hardcover || Richard Holloway || Canongate Books
From the Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Holloway, an inspiring and profound collection of essays reflecting on art, faith, forgiveness, grief and home
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We Are Free to Change the World
Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
2024 || Hardcover || Lyndsey Stonebridge || Veltman Distributie Import Books
This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty
'Exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original'
PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street
'Beautifully written... Biography at its best'
EDDIE GLAUDE, author of Begin Again
The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migratio...
Right Thing, Right Now
justice in an Unjust World
2024 || Paperback || Ryan Holiday || Profile
The latest in the New York Times bestselling series: the life-changing power of integrity.
If we do what is right, everything else will follow: happiness, success, meaning, reputation, love. This is central to Stoic wisdom. The path isn't always easy, but it is essential, and the alternative - taking the easy route - leads only to cowardice and folly.
In the third book in his bestselling Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday explores the crucial role that integrity plays in every good life. From...
Is Free Speech Under Threat?
One big question. Two great answers.
2024 || Hardcover || Charlotte Lydia Riley e.a. || Bodley Head
One big question. Two great answers. In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the culture wars.
Suzanne Nossel (CEO of PEN America) puts the case that even though there is an important rebalancing of power taking place in society today, rightly giving minority voices the space and prominence they have long been owed, even so the uncompromising intolerance of a left-leaning minority crosses the threshold of an important principle on which free ...
Right Thing. Right Now
justice in an Unjust World
2024 || Hardcover || Ryan Holiday || Portfolio USA
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what’s right – even when it isn’t easy
For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one’s commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplin...
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How the World Made the West
A 4,000-Year History
2024 || Paperback || Quinn Josephine Quinn || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it.
The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the true story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to be...
Monsters (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Claire Dederer || Sceptre
'How rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times
'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL
Pablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan. But many of us still love Guernica and the Ring cycle and Ziggy Stardust.
And what are we to do with that love? How are we, as fans, to reckon with the biographical choice...
Determined (Heruitgave)
a Science of Life without Free Will
2024 || Paperback || Robert M. Sapolsky || Penguin Press
“Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences
Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unset...
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Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion
Volume 1
2024 || Paperback || Alfred Archer || Open Press Tilburg University
Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion is the bi-annual journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion (EPSSE). It aims to bring together thoughts and ideas about affect and emotion from all areas of philosophy, such as the metaphysics, phenomenology, sociology, ethics, politics, and (cognitive) science of emotion. Passion is not limited to representing one tradition of philosophical thought. We welcome papers from all philosoph...
The Stoic Mindset
10 Ancient Lessons for Modern Life
2024 || Hardcover || Mark Tuitert || Penguin Life
Discover how the ancient wisdom of the Stoics provides the essential tools you need to navigate the modern world.
'Relatable and inspiring ... Get ready to be motivated to live a more Stoic life' - Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
Elite sportsman Mark Tuitert used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become an Olympic gold medallist, champion athlete and successful entrepreneur, overcoming a series of challenges in his professional and private life. Now, in this ...