Invisible - The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But there's no need to feel guilty. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
Art of War by Antony Cummins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This is the most accessible edition ofArt of War ever produced, with the text broken down into digestible individual lessons, unique teaching illustrations to clarify the text, and step-by-step commentary that draws on the full range of recent translations and ancient commentators. Composed in the 5 ...Show more
The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Ser.
The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran's best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound. Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. C ...Show more
Philosophy: A Visual Encyclopedia by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The perfect book for young readers looking to explore some of life's biggest questions. Thousands of years ago, ancient philosophers asked some important questions: "What is real?", "What is everything made of?", "Why does evil exist?", and "What can I know?" These questions have gone on to spark passio ...Show more
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
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Category: Philosophy
When you explore older atheisms, you will find some of your firmest convictions - secular or religious - are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be freedom from thought.'For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of rel ...Show more
For Small Creatures Such as We: Ritual.. by Sasha Sagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
For Small Creatures Such as We hunts for the meaning behind our most common, beloved celebrations and envisions how we can grow these roots into new and fulfilling secular rituals. From the daughter of celebrated scientist, Carl Sagan, this is a luminous and moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughte ...Show more
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer
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Category: Philosophy
"Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other questions in this compelling new volume. "If we can detach ourselves fr ...Show more
Turing (The Great Philosophers) by Andrew Hodges
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing. Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war computer, but also gave an entirely new approach to the p ...Show more
Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be...wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable,philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realis ...Show more
Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche; R Kevin Hill (Trans)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Joyous Scienceis a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and affirmative ...Show more