Love: All That Matters
Drawing on wisdom from within psychology, philosophy, myth and everyday experience to examine the kinds of love associated with different phases of our development - from infant narcissism to the compassion that can grow and let go....MORE 
God: All That Matters
An exploration of how people through time and in different cultures have sought, experienced, and explained God - in suffering, in nature, in morality, in peak experiences, in goodness, in the future and in love....MORE 
The Big Questions: God
Religion’s 20 biggest questions answered in accessible and thought-provoking mini-essays. Each 3000 word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds and provides answers on the latest research....MORE 
How to be an agnostic
Part personal story, part philosophical search, After Atheism argues that the contemporary lust for certainty is demeaning of our humanity. The key to wisdom, as philosophers since Socrates have known, is understanding the limits of our knowledge....more 
THE GOOD LIFE: 30 steps to perfecting the art of living
Hope, freedom, love. We seek them, but where can we actually find them? Mark Vernon unlocks their secrets, along with many others, by collecting the wisdom of the greatest minds in history and making their thinking on the things that matter most in life accessible and, above all, practical....more 
Philosophy for the curious
Four leading experts will guide you through all the key areas of interest, including utilitarianism, deontological ethics and virtue ethics....more 
Ethics for the curious
In a series of structured discussions our panel of four leading experts will guide you through all the key areas of interest, including the philosophy of science, religion, politics and the mind....more 
Understand Humanism
Understand Humanism is the definitive introduction to this diverse and increasingly prominent philosophy....more 
THE meaning OF FRIENDSHIP
Mark Vernon examines the love shared by friends, linking the rich insights of the great philosophers of friendship with numerous illustrations from modern life to ask about friendship and sex, friends at work, the politics of friendship, and its spirituality....more -
Plato's PoDcasts
A retelling of the often quirky stories about the lives of the ancient philosophers, which for a long while were as important as their thoughts, showing how their wisdom can still inspire us today.
The Ancients' guide to Modern Living...more 
Chambers Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions
The new, illustrated Chambers Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions includes more than 3,200 entries ranging from Catholicism to sharia law, doomsday cults to eco-paganism, and yogic flying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster....more 
Wellbeing
Unless our understanding of wellbeing becomes both more expansive and profound, Mark argues, our experience of happiness, though accompanied by warm sounding words, will remain shallow.
(The Art of Living series)...more -
WHAT NOT TO SAY
Everyone has such moments: 'I didn't know what to say!' This book takes those situations, unpacks them with philosophy, and - with some understanding gained - explores the do's and don'ts, focusing on empathy with intelligence.
Philosophy for Life’s Tricky Moments...more 
42, DEEP THOUGHT ON THE MEANING OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Drawing his inspiration from 42 of the funniest and wisest quotations on the big questions in life, Mark offers a light-hearted look at what philosophy has to say about profound matters including work, love, eternal life and sex....more -
AFTER ATHEISM
Part personal story, part philosophical search, After Atheism argues that the contemporary lust for certainty is demeaning of our humanity. The key to wisdom, as philosophers since Socrates have known, is understanding the limits of our knowledge.
SCIENCE, RELIGION & THE MEANING OF LIFE...more 
BUSINESS
A practical and accessible guide to the essentials of business, covering key concepts and terms, from accountability to zero-sum game. Subject areas include management, economics and finance, marketing, organizational behaviour and operations.
THE KEY CONCEPTS...more
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