How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into thes ...Show more
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Drawing on a wide range of material - ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience - Karen Armstrong argues that compassion is hardwired into our brains, yet is constantly pushed back by our more primitive instincts for selfishness and survival ...Show more
Harvest for Hope : A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The renowned scientist who fundamentally changed the way we view primates and our relationship with the animal kingdom now turns her attention to an incredibly important and deeply personal issue-taking a stand for a more sustainable world. In this provocative and encouraging book, Jane Goodall sounds a ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life by Saul Frampton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his father, his brother, and most recently his first-born child. But finding his mind agitated rather than sett ...Show more
Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
$23.14 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Why is it so many of us lack contentment, despite all the wealth and freedoms we enjoy? The past two centuries delivered individual and political freedoms that promised unprecedented opportunities for personal fulfilment. Yet citizens of affluent countries are encouraged to pursue lives of consumerism, ...Show more
Ideas That Matter by A.C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can - and does - change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move ...Show more
Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World by Michael Pollan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Lo ...Show more
The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can't quite describe but don't need to' - Richard Ford. Through a ...Show more
Greek Pilgrimage: In Search of the Foundations of the West by John Carroll
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classical Greece, journeying through its great sites, monuments, and cultural works. On the way, it examines the country's pivotal role in the foundation of the modern world. We who are born into the West are all Greeks. Here lie our roots. The ancient Greeks invite u ...Show more
The Idea of Justice by Amartya K. Sen
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he a ...Show more