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Philosophy
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The Story of Philosophy€11.99
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text.
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Metaphysical AnimalsSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €17.99
Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a vivid blend of philosophy and recovered history - bringing back the women who shared ideas, as well as sofas, shoes and even lovers.
THE IRISH TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022
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The Life Inside : A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be FreeSpecial Price €17.99 Regular Price €19.99
Moving, sympathetic, wise and frequently funny, The Life Inside is an elegantly written and unforgettable book.
THE IRISH TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022
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A Simpler Life: a guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity€18.99
Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful and focused on the essentials.
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The Alignment Problem: How Can Artificial Intelligence Learn Human Values?€14.99
From the AI program which cheats at computer games to the sexist algorithm behind Google Translate, bestselling author Brian Christian explains how, as AI develops, we rapidly approach a collision between artificial intelligence and ethics.
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Being You: A New Science of ConsciousnessSpecial Price €17.99 Regular Price €18.99
Anil Seths radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.
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Tao Te Ching (Penguin Classics)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €17.99
The acclaimed translation of Taoism's founding text in a beautiful Penguin Classics Deluxe edition. The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or 'Book of the Way', is the essential text of Taoism, one of the three great religions of China.
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A Hut at the Edge of the Village€17.99
There is a radical agency in John Moriarty's work that we as readers don't always spot. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear that there is nothing domestic, nothing tame, about John Moriarty.
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Humankind : A Hopeful History€12.99
In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world’s most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history.
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Sex and the Failed Absolute€15.99
In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism.