God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero
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Category: Philosophy
Is religion toxic or tonic? Is it a force for good or for evil? The answer is 'all of the above' - which is to say that religion is a force far too powerful to be ignored. God is Not One is the essential guide to learning about and understanding religion and its place in our global culture today, writte ...Show more
Adieu to God: Why Psychology Leads to Atheism by Mick Power
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Category: Philosophy
Adieu to God examines atheism from a psychologicalperspective and reveals how religious phenomena and beliefs arepsychological rather than supernatural in origin. Answers the psychological question of why, in the face ofoverwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, do religionscontinue to prosper?Lo ...Show more
How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: very good
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting yet often confusing and difficult experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. Th ...Show more
Is Your Neighbour a Zombie? Philosophical Riddles, Paradoxes And Conundrums to Stretch Your Mind by Jeremy Stangroom
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Category: Philosophy
Jorge Romero is facing a big problem. His neighbours are convinced he is a soulless zombie. What can he say to persuade them he's a conscious being just like them, and save his neck? Is Your Neighbour a Zombie? brings together philosophical puzzles and problems to challenge your preconceptions and chang ...Show more
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Canons
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us by Douglas A. Knight
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Category: Philosophy | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What the Bible Really Says About Politics, Sex, Creation, Suffering, and More
The School of Life #2 by School of Life
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A series of intelligent, rigorous, well-written self-help books, put together by some of the leading minds in the field. This bindup includes the following titles: 9781447202301 - How To Stay Sane; 9781447202288 - How To Find Fulfilling Work; 9781447202325 - How To Change The World. Founded in 2008, The ...Show more
This Will Make You Smarter - New scientific concepts to improve your thinking by John Brockman
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Clay Shirky, Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, ...Show more
The Great Philosophers by Stephen Law
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Category: Philosophy
Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses and deciph ...Show more
Life Lessons from Byron by Matthew Bevis
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Category: Philosophy
'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. A prodigious poetic gift and a scandalous private life made him famous throughout Europe, and h ...Show more
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World by Stephen Trombley
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Category: Philosophy
Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's ...Show more