What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Immigration? (Portes Jonathan)(Paperback)

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Immigration? (Portes Jonathan)(Paperback)

Do Earth: Healing Strategies for Humankind. (Omond Tamsin)(Paperback)

We know there's a climate emergency but what does that mean we should do? What does a 'better future' look like and how do we get there? Having spent over a decade on the frontlines of climate activism -- organising, campaigning, and holding the powerful to account -- Tamsin Omond discovered

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge (Collins Harry)(Paperback)

Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called 'tacit knowledge' by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins

The Brothers Grimm Volume II: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales (Grimm Brothers)(Imitation Leather)

We all know the stories -- or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about 'Wise Folks,' 'The King's Son Who Feared Nothing,' and . . . well . . . 'Donkey Cabbages'--to name a few. Jacob and Wilhelm

What We Think About When We Think About Football (Critchley Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A philosopher's take on what makes the beautiful

One Who Wrote Destiny (Shukla Nikesh)(Paperback / softback)

'A funny and moving novel about what we inherit and what we create for ourselves' Sunday

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (Russell Bertrand)(Paperback)

How do we know what we 'know'? How did we -as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between

Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don´t Know - Malcolm Gladwell

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of

Talking to Strangers - What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Gladwell Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?Using stories of

Notebooks (Leonardo Da Vinci)(Paperback)

Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and

Food Philosophy: An Introduction (Kaplan David M.)(Paperback)

Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whether people have similar experiences of it. On one hand, food is recognized as a basic need, if not a basic right. On the other hand, it is hard to

Doctors and Healers (Nathan Tobie)(Paperback)

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic' way. If they get results, it's thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly

Why Worry about Future Generations? (Scheffler Samuel)(Paperback)

The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence

No Visible Bruises - what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us (Snyder Rachel Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Fragile - Why we feel more anxious, stressed and overwhelmed than ever, and what we can do about it (O'Malley Stella)(Paperback / softback)

This Way To Departures (Mannheim Linda)(Paperback / softback)

What happens when we leave the places we're from? What do we lose, who do we become, and what parts of our pasts are unshakeable? Mannheim's second story collection focuses on twelve people who have relocated - both voluntarily and involuntarily. Opening with the Miami-set thriller 'Noir', these

Truant (Clare Horatio)(Paperback / softback)

'I'm going to tell the truth', I said suddenly, 'about what we did and why, and what it did to

Beginners (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to

Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (Crossan John Dominic)(Paperback)

The controversial, bestselling account of what we can know about the life of

Recycling Plastic : Band 04/Blue - Robinson Anthony

We all know recycling is important, but what actually happens to the things we recycle? This photographic information book looks behind the scenes at how we recycle, what can be done with recycled material and what the benefits are. Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential

A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion (Herling Bradley L.)(Paperback)

How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call 'religion'? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion

How Do We Know? (Dew Jr James K.)(Paperback)

What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise

Goliath - Why the West Isn't Winning. And What We Must Do About It. (McFate Sean)(Paperback / softback)

The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize?First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our