A LARGER AUSTRALIA 2015 Boyer Lectures by Michael Fullilove
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Boyer Lectures
In the ABC 2015 Boyer Lectures, one of Australia's most influential foreign policy experts examines our country's place in the world. For most of Australia's history, the world was run by nations like our own. But now the international order that has prevailed since the end of the Second World War is fr ...Show more
Good Life: Philosophy from Cradle to Grave by Mark Rowlands
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the bestselling author of The Philosopher and the Wolf comes a gripping and provocative story of one man's life through a philosophical lensMyshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and ...Show more
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
A climate-crisis book which offers a new - and controversial - solution: geoengineering, and which delivers a rich, deep history of climate change, and the science and politics that underpin it.
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think by Robert Arp
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An elegant addition to the successful "1001" series--a comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years. 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest mind ...Show more
When the Facts Change: Essays 1995 - 2010 by Tony Judt
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Category: Essays
This is a great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judt's first collection of es ...Show more
I am Here Now: A Creative Mindfulness Guide and Journal by The Mindfulness Project
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Category: Philosophy
"An essential guide to mindfulness, filled with tools and practices that can enhance our well-being." (Arianna Huffington). I am here now will inspire you to explore your world with greater curiosity and find moments of mindfulness in everyday life while unleashing your creativity along the way. Be here ...Show more
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya (Stanford Univ. Stanford University, California Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ.)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof can be of help in attacking any problem that can be 'reasoned' out. Generations of readers have relished Polya's instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the heart of the problem.
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic by Ramesh Menon
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The great Indian epic rendered in modern proseIndia's most beloved and enduring legend, the "Ramayana "is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India's cultural and religious expression, the Ramayana was originally composed by the Sanskrit po ...Show more
What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze
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Category: Philosophy
"The question 'what is philosophy?' can perhaps only be posed lat in life, with the arrival of old age and the time for speaking concretely. It is a question posed in a moment of quiet restlessness, at midnight, when there is no longer anything to ask." Posing that question, Deleuze and Guattari worked ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey--"The Story of Philosophy "is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the n ...Show more
Simplest Words (HB) by Alex Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimat ...Show more