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
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 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
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
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
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
$27.99 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
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir; Constance Borde (Translator); Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)
$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
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
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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
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
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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
Being Good by Simon Blackburn
$33.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Go ...Show more
God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero
$34.95 AUD
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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$34.95 (14% off)
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
The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us by Douglas A. Knight
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What the Bible Really Says About Politics, Sex, Creation, Suffering, and More