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
Unlearning with Hannah Arendt by Marie Luise Knott; David B. Dollenmayer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the "banality of evil," thereby posing one of the most chilling and ...Show more
How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone by William Poundstone
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Category: Philosophy
We are hard-wired to believe that the world is more predictable than it is. We chase 'winning streaks' that are often just illusions, and we are all too predictable exactly when we try hardest not to be. In the 1970s, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky coined the phrase 'representativeness' to describe th ...Show more
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America by Alan Ryan
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville, who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalog the unique features of the American social contract in his two-volume masterpiece, Democracy in America. Often th ...Show more
Ethical Eating : How to Make Food Choices That Won't Cost the Earth by Angela Crocombe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A timely and powerful investigation of the food choices we make every day. These days most people want to live as lightly as possible on our precious planet. What we choose to eat is a very basic decision, yet it has huge implications - for the sustainability of species, for the quality of the environme ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whethe ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: Philosophy
The sixth in the bestselling 50s series, and a lively entry point to the field by exploring the works of 50 of the most significant philosophers; including those that show us how to think (Descartes, Foucault and Wittgenstein); how to be (Aristotle, Spinoza, Satre); how to act (Bentham, Kant, Singer) an ...Show more
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
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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
Force for Good - Dalai Lama's Vision For by Daniel Goleman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
For decades, the Dalai Lama has travelled the world, meeting with people from a wealth of countries who differ greatly in their background, social status and viewpoint, bringing them his own individual wisdom and compassion. In his encounters with everyone from the inhabitants of shantytowns in Sao Paul ...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