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Simon Estok,
The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change

Examining how water appears to humanity (its forms) and how humanity apprehends it (our perceptual horizons), this book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship…

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Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi
Epicurus' Human Beings

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected …

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Paul Allen Miller
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero

Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His …

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Josie Billington
Reading Literature and Chronic Pain

"This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanit…

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Duncan F Kennedy
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450-350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by em…

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Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (Marci Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum)

This is a critical edition of Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes , which presents in dialogue form his views on the fear of death and endurance of pain, on distress and a range of other emotions, and on th…

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Benjamin A Saltzman
Turning Away

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our h…

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Edward W Said
The World, the Text, and the Critic

"Edward W. Said, author of Beginnings and the controversial yet seminal Orientalism, is one of the most acclaimed public intellectuals of our time. In this sweeping and rigorous work of literary crit…

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Jonathan Hay
Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' place within our own world, this book is a deep…

available from 23.7.2026.

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Zachary Seager,
Living Peacefully

In today's turbulent world, it's harder and harder to find a place of calm and to avoid conflict. Focusing on perceptive and influential anecdotes, observations and essays from ancient to modern times, Li…

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Aristotle,
The Nicomachean Ethics

One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and wrong is a human thing'What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famo…

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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C. S. Lewis
What Christians Believe

"If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through."What Christians Believe is a selection of classic essays written by C. S. Lewis expa…

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James Marcus
Glad to the Brink of Fear

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American c…

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Mazen Kerbaj
Gaza in My Phone

Gaza in My Phone presents the powerful art of Lebanese cartoonist Mazen Kerbaj, drawn in response to social media images of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza.Gaza is the first genocide to be captured in…

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Henry David Thoreau,
The Essays of Henry David Thoreau

A definitive collection of Henry David Thoreau's major essays, annotated and introduced by Lewis Hyde.Diverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreau's politics from his interest in nature, …

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Jeanna Kadlec
Heretic

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable lif…

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Miroslav Volf, Christian Wiman
Glimmerings

From award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf---two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine lo…

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Siri Hustvedt
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

A compelling, radical, "richly explored" (The New York Times Book Review ) and "insightful" (Vanity Fair ) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosop…

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