The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt
$36.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more releva ...Show more
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
Free Will by Sam Harris
$12.99 AUD
$16.99 (23% off)
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Part of the Hero Classics series "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." A collection of personal writings covering an array of topics. Marcus delves into spiritual reflections and exercises, which he developed as a leader, in his struggled to ...Show more
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a stellar work by Publishers Weekly From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what ...Show more
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Daniel;Cathcart Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart take philosophy to task with flair a ...Show more
Real: Living a Balanced Life by Victoria Alexander
$59.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: General Adult
Real salutes what the world has to offer. This visually stunning, thought-provoking book is about looking around with awareness, noticing life's quiet details, and knowing that the honesty of time changes everything--from a human face, a family home, or a fragile sampler book of antique lace. Real is a ...Show more
Enlightened Eccentrics: Philosophers in the Age of Reason by Robert Spillane
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This book is a declaration of respect and admiration for the philosophers who had the courage to publicly use their reason in the service of truth.
The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945 by Thomas Baldwin
$79.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945 comprises over sixty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period and is designed to be accessible to non-specialists who have little previous familiarity with philosophy. As with the other volumes in the series, much of the emph ...Show more