Overview :"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell Work is on... Read More
Overview :Fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether we're buying a new pair of jeans, reading Vogue, ... Read More
Overview :Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred store windows. We see manifestations of societal fears everyday, and daily news reports... Read More
Overview :For many of us it is the ultimate fear: to die alone. Loneliness is a difficult subject to address because it has such negative connotations... Read More
Overview :Freedom of speech, religion, choice, will--humans have fought, and continue to fight, for all of these. But what is human freedom really? Ta... Read More
Overview :Despite the overuse of the word in movies, political speeches, and news reports, "evil" is generally seen as either flagrant rhetoric or els... Read More
Overview :It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsk... Read More
Overview :From lying to friends to lies in politics, a wide-ranging examination of the forms and ethics of falsehood. From popular philosopher Lars S... Read More
Overview :From a leading popular philosopher, an uplifting meditation on the nature and power of optimism. In this book Lars Svendsen embarks on a pr... Read More
Overview :How do animals perceive the world? What does it really feel like to be a cat or a dog? In Understanding Animals, Lars Svendsen investigates ... Read More
Overview :A witty yet thoughtful examination of stupidity and idiocy in modern life. This witty yet thoughtful book examines stupidity and idiocy, an... Read More