Religion and Philosophy

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humo...

What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most admired virtues? Is courage characteristic of all cultures, or only some, and why is it so...

One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book. Is it still possibl...

What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosophe...

Thought-provoking and with an astonishing range of references, On Being Authentic is a gripping journey into the self. Beginning with Socrates and ...

If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Jap...

Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were o...

This book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Isl...

How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand...

This superlative introduction introduces Hobbes' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes' philosophy.

'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The GuardianIn 193...

Written by one of the twentieth century’s most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell’s major work on...

With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable…It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of mor...

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) is best known as a biologist and natural historian rather than a philosopher. However, in this invaluable book, Tim Lewe...

Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would ...

Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most infl...

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, o...

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of...

An Outline of Philosophy, is concerned with the universe as a whole. Humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire kn...

First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. ...

This Book Outlines Islamic History Beginning With The Life Of Muhammad And The Birth Of Islamic Ideals, Through Islam`S Phenomenal Geographical Exp...

Why this small book on Sikhism when there is abundant literature already available in the market? Obviously, the objective of this work is to highl...

The book Voice of the Buddha: The Dhammapada is a commentary on the Dhammapada, one of the popular texts of the Buddhist canon. It contains the rel...

Creation of universe has been an enigma since time immemorial. Matter is made of energy. E=mc2 is an established scientific fact. Energy, in essenc...

The Hindus believe that the reciting, reading or hearing of the story of Sri Ram dispels all fears from the mind. It chases away the evils of Kaliy...

Many psychological truths are hidden in the pages of religious texts around the world. India is a rich storehouse of information on the subject of ...

It is believed that human body is attained after going through 84 lakhs of forms as various types of living beings. It is extremely precious becaus...

Sri Krishna is worshipped by the majority of the common Hindu population. His life was full of hardships since birth, which is also similar to that...

The present book God Made the Man and the Man Made the Gods is an attempt to prove that it is God who created the universe and entered into the uni...

All Hindus hold the Ramcharitmanas in great reverence. A few recite it regularly. Most recite it on special occasions as it is considered auspiciou...

Bridging Souls—A Journey from Mahabharata to Bharata is a thought-provoking and scholarly book that juxtaposes the events of Mahabharata with the s...

Considered by some as Science while by others a mere blind faith, Astrology is a complex subject that needs to be studied in proper perspective. In...

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक अम्बेडकर की अन्तर्वेदना अत्यन्त सारगर्भित एवं कुतूहलपूर्ण है। डॉ. अम्बेडकर ने न केवल अस्पृश्य समाज के उद्धार के लिए अथक प्रयत्न किए...

The values are the principles of behavioural conduct, that help in distinguishing between right and wrong, or good and bad. They guide the human be...