Philosophy

A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel.

A panoramic account of the world's leading writers and thinkers

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

An inspired and impassioned historical examination of humanity's search for the divine

Your best friend deserves to know the secrets of how to live a good life, too

Explaining all aspects of Humanist philosophy, Cave offers several persuasive arguments against God's existence, whilst providing an alternative and valuable conception of life without Him.

You don't need a dusty tome to encounter great ideas.

Can morality exist separately from a belief in God?

This collection contains seven of the most famous military texts of ancient China. These new translations bring to light several texts that display an understanding of strategy and warfare that still has relevance millennia after their original publication. From the 11th-century AD onward, these texts ...

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.

The essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, the 16th-century French philosopher, are an obvious addition to the Notting Hill Editions 'Classic Collection' due to the masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal story-telling conveyed in his writing. He popularised the genre of the essay form, ...

An Introducing Graphic Guide to the father of modern anthropology.

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip.

We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation.

We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or ...

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.

Learn how to live from history's grweatest thinkers

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?