The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to the study of human nature The Psychology Book clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating field of science. How does the brain remember faces? What makes us choose one decision over another? Where doe ...Show more
The Question Book by Mikael Krogerus
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Tschäppeler and Krogerus Collection
What would be your ideal job if you didn't have to worry about money? Would you like to have more responsibility or less? How far would you go for a promotion? When did you last stand up for what you believe in? What are you afraid of? In this unique handbook to your own life and work, there are no righ ...Show more
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
$34.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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
What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present by Joanna Bourke
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Earnest Englishwoman', published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?' She protested that women were not treated as fully human; their status was worse than that of animals. What does it mean to be 'human' rather than 'animal'? If the Earnest Englishwoman had tu ...Show more
The Prophet - Gift Edition by Kahlil Gibran
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Originally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Kahlil Gibran's most celebrated work is a timeless tale that speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and death. With its universal mess ...Show more
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what make ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$13.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals' - (Houellebecq to BHL). In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. "Public Enemies" is the result. In their inimitabl ...Show more
Zero Degrees of Empathy - A New Theory of Human Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. ...Show more
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
$59.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world. It highlights the importance of ...Show more
In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea by John Armstrong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In Arthur Ransome's charming tale of childhood adventure, "Secret Water", four children are pretending to be savages approaching an outpost of the civilized world. 'What is civilization?' asks Bridget, the youngest. 'Ices', explains her brother, 'and all that sort of thing'. It is probably the briefest ...Show more
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously ...Show more