Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. This book starts from a different premise: th ...Show more
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more
Wilful Blindness - Why We Ignore the Obvious by Margaret Heffernan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and ask, how could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers and white collar crim ...Show more
The Good Life by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"No one can promise you that a life lived for others will bring you a deep sense of satisfaction, but it's certain that nothing else will."Hugh Mackay has spent his entire working life asking Australians about their values, motivations, ambitions, hopes and fears. Now, in The Good Life, he addresses the ...Show more
The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
$34.95 (28% off)
Category: Philosophy | Series: University Center for Human Values Series
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, fact ...Show more
The God Fallacy by Laurence Kalnin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
If extraterrestrials visited earth, they would be incredulous of the beliefs of humans and that we produce material which incites murder and intolerance. Knowledge of our universe conflicts with the fallacy of gods, nurtured and promoted by the world's wealthiest entities, religions. We have a society i ...Show more
Bulletproof Privacy: How to Live Hidden, Happy, and Free by COLEMAN, JOHN
$54.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of values, along with unprecedented opportunities. As t ...Show more
Ending Holy Wars: Religion and Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars by Isak Svensson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: New Approaches to Peace and Conflict
Ending Holy Wars explores how religious dimensions affect the possibilities for conflict resolution in civil war. This is the first book that systematically tries to map out the religious dimensions of internal armed conflicts and explain the conditions under which religious dimensions impede peaceful s ...Show more
The Key to HeavenEdifing Tales from Holy Scripture to Serve as Teaching and Warning by Leszek Kołakowski
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy