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How We Got To Now: The History and Power of Great Ideas by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How did our mastery of artificial cold help give birth to at least four million babies, create the golden age of Hollywood and unlock the secrets of the universe? And what about our battle against dirt? How did that create the flat screen and the iPhone?This book is a celebration of ideas: how they happ ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Calm: Educate yourself in the art of remaining calm, and learn how to defend yourself from panic and fury by The School of Life Press (Series editor Alain de Botton)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library
Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a loss of calm - and a descent into anxiety and agitation. Surprisingly, but very fortunately, our power to remain calm can be rehearsed and im ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
'I emerged from this book feeling better about almost everything... a mosaic of faces building into this extraordinary portrait of our species.' Guardian 'The Ten Types of Humanis a fantastic piece of non-fiction, mixing astonishing real-life cases with the latest scientific research to provide a guide ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. ...Show more
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r ...Show more
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eating animals is wrong? If this began a ...Show more
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penn ...Show more
What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is truly a marvel. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not? After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the world's leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of d ...Show more
Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Little Histories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging b ...Show more
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
$20.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle w ...Show more