30-Second Philosophies (HARDBACK)

A full-colour illustrated tour through philosophy’s most famous – and most mind-bending –  ideas I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, Dialectical Materialism?  The Socratic Method and Deconstruction?  Sure, you know what they all mean.  That is, you’ve certainly heard of them.  But do you know enough about them to join a dinner party debate or d…

Do Animals Have Rights?

In December 1998, activist Barry Horne lay dying in prison on hunger strike. A convicted arsonist, his intention was to become a martyr to the animal rights cause. On the outside, Robin Webb of the Animal Liberation Front read out a hit list: if Horne died, ten 'vivisectionists' would be assassinated. Colin Blakemore, Oxford Professor of Physiology, was one. An expert in vision and the early deve…

Do You Think You're Clever? The Oxbridge Questions

A wonderful collection of oddly brilliant questions and answers taken from the infamously challenging Oxbridge interviews. 'What happens if I drop an ant?' 'What books are bad for you?' 'What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?' The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can te…

Don't Get Fooled Again: The Sceptic's Guide to Life (HARDBACK)

'An enjoyable polemic against pretty much everything really, and as it rips apart our own gullibility and life in general, it also manages to highlight a lot of the basic philosophical premises that we have opted into without giving them real consideration in the first place. An enjoyable diatribe, indeed.' Publishing News Turned off by pseudo-science, moral panics, conspiracy theories or 1,001 w…

Don't Get Fooled Again: The Sceptic's Guide to Life (PAPERBACK)

  Why is it that, time and again, intelligent, educated people end up falling for ideas that turn out on closer examination to be nonsense? We live in a supposedly rational age, yet crazy notions seem increasingly mainstream. New Age peddlers claim to cure Aids with vitamin tablets. Media gatekeepers stoke panic and regurgitate corporate press releases in the name of 'balance'. Wild-eyed men…

Donna Haraway and GM Foods

Genetically modified food is a world-wide issue of public concern. Since the mid-1990s, genetic crises and fears have captured centre stage in the media, politics and ethics. The reason for escalating panic is obvious. GM food messes up the purity of natural divisions. To stick a fish gene in a tomato violates the boundaries between species. And it is a fatal step towards the eugenic engineering o…

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (HARDBACK)

A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In God's Philosophers, James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showin…