Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Anna Doherty (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: School of Life
Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions: about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet sadly, too often, this inborn curiosity is not developed and with age the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness chil ...Show more
The History of Sexuality v.2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: History of Sexuality
Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.
Importance of Religion: Meaning ... by Gavin Flood
$37.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices* Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views ...Show more
Free Will by Sam Harris
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$16.99 (23% off)
Category: Philosophy
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
Fifty Shades of Feminism by Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink? In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, ac ...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
In Praise of Idleness - A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive breathes new life into Bertrand Russell’s classic work, In Praise of Idleness, with a magical package that includes BTG’s new introduction, biographical afterword, historical notes, additional quotations and comic illustrations. This is the perfect ...Show more
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich
$21.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Contemporary Classics Ser.
First published in 1973, this is an essential work on the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunts. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about ...Show more
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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
What is the History of Knowledge? by Peter Burke
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Category: Philosophy | Series: What is History Series
What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, knowledges in the plural ) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge ...Show more
Scatterlings: Getting Claimed .. Amnesia by Martin Shaw; David Abram (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In Scatterlings, Martin Shaw walks the myth-lines of seven stories based in and around his homeland of Dartmoor, England. Rather than the commentaries on such tales being primarily balanced against other literary sources, Shaw uses what actually occurs on these walks as the main source of information o ...Show more
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? How can we still be in control of our lives? In this myth-shattering book, Daniel Dennett shows that free will does ...Show more