Religion and Philosophy

Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires peo...

In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the c...

Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes...

Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or...

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully 'objective'? What, really, can be de...

An expanded and revised edition of the 1997 study on the rise of the BJP and the need to re-evaluate the claims made about the virtues of Indian se...

Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introdu...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933‒2010), a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2009, for his work The Mahābhārata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, ...

Introduction to Logic [Paperback] Irving M Copi

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Adamson sheds light on the philosophical ideas that emerged in the Islamic world. From the beginnings of the...

This landmark classic marks the beginning of a new approach to Indian philosophy. While older approaches were born from the assumption that critica...

The capability of reading and other personal skills get improves on reading this book Bandhan Mahasmar -1 1 to 9 Volume Set by Narendra Kohli.This ...

Historic Temples in Pakistan makes a case for keeping ancient emblems of faith alive and for pluralism in a land of irony besieged by unpalatable e...

At a time when Christianity is flourishing in the Southern hemisphere but declining in much of the West, this Very Short Introduction offers an imp...

Who or what is God? How do different religions interpret His existence? How can we know God? Many people believe in God, not just throughout histor...

Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origi...

The Blue-necked God (Nilakantha Braja), published in 1976, is one of Indira Goswamis early novels and the first time that a writer highlighted the ...

There is no denying that thinking comes naturally to human beings. But what are thoughts? How is thought realized in the brain? Does thinking occur...

Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduc...

This remarkable and unique record is the outcome of seven years of careful research enhanced by sensitive photographs that not only portray all asp...

Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Isla...

This is a compilation of osho's discourses on some of the enlightened masters who were born in the east.

He tangles with a tantric lover, faces death in a meeting with his long-dead parents and flounders in the mirages of mind. We travel with him throu...

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding ...

Two billion people today identify as Christians, with the implication that Jesus is the focus of their relationship with God, and their way of livi...

Paganism' is an evocative word that, even today, conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory ter...

Violent Heroes are fighting, violence, violently, to end violence!! Escalation of violence has put life to hard times. People have sick bodies and ...

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote widely on religious, psychological, and literary th...

German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. This Very Short Introduction discusses the idea that German philosophy forms one of the mo...

Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who...

What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the scie...

Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world ...

Simon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, w...

`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is a...

The Book of Night: A Moment from the Mahabharata

The Qur'an is believed to have been revealed 1400 years back to prophet Muhammad. It is revered by Muslims, and is considered as the word of god. T...

‘Each age has its own bag of tricks’—the age-old story of a thirsty Crow retold with a twist in the tale!.

Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, H...

Do we really make our own decisions? Or are we compelled to act by factors beyond our control? This introduction is an investigation of one of the ...

This Introduction introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, mult...

Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, conce...

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A....

Rousseau was both a central figure of the European Enlightenment and its most formidable critic. This study of his works, across a range of discipl...

Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the ...

René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endu...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosop...

The essays in this volume chart the course of subaltarn history from an early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency.