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		The Inescapable Self
		An Introduction to Western Philosophy		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Timothy Chappell
		Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005  334 pages
		Hardback    029784735X  205x135mm		Qty
		Published Price £16.99		Our Price £6.99
	'Can we know that we're not prisoners in Plato's Cave, or deceived by Descartes' demon, or brains in a vat, or victims of the Matrix?' In this highly readable and intellectually stimulating account of Western philosophy since Plato, Timothy Chappell uses the problem of the 'inescapable self' or 'egocentric predicament' as the springboard to explore fundamental aspects of philosophy: knowledge of self, ethical objectivity and altruism, the rift between mind and world, and the problem of free will.

		The World in a Phrase
		A Brief History of the Aphorism		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		James Geary
		Bloomsbury 2005  229 pages
		Hardback    1582344302  220x150mm		Qty
		Published Price $19.95		Our Price £4.99
	'You don't curl up with a good book of aphorisms; they leap off the page and unfurl inside you.' An avid collector of aphorisms since his youth, James Geary tells the story of the shortest and oldest written art form and its practitioners, from the bewildering wisdom of the ancient Chinese I Ching, through Greeks and Romans, moralists such as Nicolas Chamfort (1741-94) and Joubert (1754-1824) and the American one-liners of Emerson and Thoreau, to the present-day aphorist Jenny Holzer ('Protect me from what I want').

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