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Mary Wollstonecraft: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a w… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Clery, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0192862561
- Language: English
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Against Progress
$14.95 Add to cartTo define ‘progress’ is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, w
- Series: Zizek’s Essays
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 135051585X
- Language: English
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Society of the Spectacle
$12.00 Add to cartThe Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its pub… [more below]
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0934868077
- Language: English
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The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network
$29.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, showing us the steps we can take to build better relationships and improve our lives.
Social connection- Author: Robson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366482
- Language: English
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Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
$32.00 Add to cartImagine: You are designing a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be within it–rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary … [more below]
- Author: Chandler, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593801687
- Language: English
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Is Your Work Worth It?: How to Think about Meaningful Work
$32.00 Add to cartWhat is work that’s worth doing in a life worth living? A revealing exploration of the questions we ask and the stories we tell about our work.
According to recent studies, barely a third of American- Author: Michaelson, Christopher Wong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703405
- Language: English
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A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion
$24.95 Add to cartAn original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age — the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new struggles
Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced- Author: Gros, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1804294152
- Language: English
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Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion
$24.00 Add to cartWherever there’s a rule, there is someone with the power to apply or ignore it–or add to it, in the interest of justice. From enforcing chores to issuing life sentences, decision-makers deliver flawe
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lam, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051248
- Language: English
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Your Happiness Equation
$14.99 Add to cartDiscover the path for lasting happiness with Your Happiness Equation! This insightful guide shows you how to not only find happiness but keep it, and even measure it with your own personal Happiness S
- Author: Campbell, Leighton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery
$27.00 Read moreRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy
Chl- Author: Aridjis, Chloe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221826
- Language: English
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The Power of Cute
$14.95 Add to cartAn exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions
Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty- Author: May, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271143
- Language: English
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What We Don’t Do: Inaction in the Face of Suffering and the Drive to Do More
$18.99 Add to cartFor the first time in human history, our inactions cause far more harm to others than our actions ever could.
“A refreshing and necessary reminder on our ability…to help those in need.” — Moby When- Author: Cooney, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, the Black Swan, the Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game
$99.00 Add to cartThe landmark five-book series–all together in one boxed set
The Incerto is an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don’t understand- Series: Incerto
- Author: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1872
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 059324365X
- Language: English
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Zero Point
$12.95 Add to cartThe essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it – questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of ele
- Series: Zizek’s Essays
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1350537845
- Language: English
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Between Existentialism and Marxism
$24.95 Add to cartThis book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inceptio… [more below]
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296171
- Language: English
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Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy
$24.95 Add to cartA bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self
Beyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, an- Author: Bettcher, Talia Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1517902576
- Language: English
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On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic
$14.99 Read more- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1907312544
- Language: English
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How to Eat: An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living
$17.95 Read moreA delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well
Today, we’re stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging,- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Bubb, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256993
- Language: English
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How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers
$17.95 Add to cartExplore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the Symposium
What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, l- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256888
- Language: English
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Why I Am a Hindu
$20.00 Add to cartA revelatory and original contribution to our understanding of the role of religion in society and politics.
India’s leading public intellectual, Shashi Tharoor, lays out Hinduism’s origins and its key
- Author: Tharoor, Shashi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1947534556
- Language: English
