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Game Theory
£8.99Game Theory
Games are played everywhere: from economics and online auctions to social interactions, and game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way, and how to maximize their outcomes. This VSI reveals, without mathematical equations, the insights the theory can bring to everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees.
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Hedgehog diaries
£10.99Hedgehog diaries
‘Hedgehog Diaries’ is a beautifully written story about the end of life, in which hedgehogs become a metaphor for hope.
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I Think, Therefore I Am
£7.99I Think, Therefore I Am
I Think, Therefore I Am is the ideal way to take the fear out of philosophy. Written in an accessible and entertaining style,I Think, Therefore I Am explains how and why philosophy began, and how the ways in which we live, learn, argue, vote and even spend our money have their origins in philosophical thought.
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Into the dark
£9.99Into the dark
Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you can’t see your hand in front of your face? Jacqueline Yallop can. It was in an unfamiliar bedroom while holidaying in Yorkshire as a child, and ever since then she has been fascinated by the dark, by our efforts to capture or avoid it, by the meanings we give to it and the way our brains process it. Taking a journey into the dark secrets of place, body and mind, she documents a series of night-time walks, exploring both the physical realities of darkness and the psychological dark that helps shape our sense of self.
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Offbeat philosophers
£7.99Offbeat philosophers
Lawrence Harvey offers the reader a collection of ten philosophical portraits – each provides refreshing and provocative insights into thinkers who dared to play a different tune. Often labouring at the margins of mainstream thought, the thinkers herein tender novel and often disquieting perspectives that serve to challenge our ‘unexamined’ norms. Each portrait is followed by questions to ponder, deliberate and ultimately stimulate the reader to think otherwise.
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Sacred earth, sacred soul
£9.99Sacred earth, sacred soul
Leading spiritual teacher John Philip Newell reveals how Celtic spirituality, listening to the sacred around us and inside of us, can help to heal the earth, overcome our conflicts and reconnect with ourselves.
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The daily dad
£10.99The daily dad
What does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad needs guidance: because fatherhood is not a one-off, it is something you do every day. Instead of a parenting book you read once as a sleep-deprived new parent, ‘The Daily Dad’ provides 366 accessible meditations on fatherhood, one for each day of the year.
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Time
£8.99Time
What is time? This book describes the developing physics of the concept of time from Newton, via Einstein, to the present day, and the related philosophical aspects. It also discusses the psychological experience of time and insights from cognitive science.
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Wolfish
£10.99Wolfish
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In ‘Wolfish’, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our relationships with one another and ourselves: What does it mean to want to embody the same creature from which you are supposed to be running? The wolf is so often depicted as the male predator, preying on the vulnerable girl/woman who strays from the path; the she-wolf meanwhile depicts women who sit outside the accepted boundaries of feminine behaviour. Berry openly recounts her own uncomfortable and sometimes frightening experiences as a woman to try to understand how we navigate our fears when threat can seem constant.
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