AC GRAYLING has terrific track record in Phoenix and all of his books backlist extremely well. The Meaning of Things has sold over 60,000 and continues to sell around 800 copies a month three years after publication'An elegance of style, a sense of humour, and the ability to juxtapose serious musings with wise and wacky facts. and you have an easily digestible form of philosophy' TLS'He is a philosopher engaged in what he rightly praises, adding value to life. Here is a book worth talking to' Guardian'There ought to be more general philosophy books like this. Short chapters that openly ponder questions without intending to resolve them. AC Grayling has perfected the art of a philosophical vignette' Herald.