On Rage by GERMAINE GREER
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
A passionate and powerfully worded essay about Aboriginal rage is a provocation that will cause heated and intense debate. The author is at her best here in this exploration of the seeds of rage and its corollary - grief.
The Way to Love: Meditations for Life by Anthony de Mello, S.J.
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"The Way to Love" contains some of the most beloved stories from Anthony de Mello. Here, more than ever before in his bestselling writing, he grapples with the ultimate question of love. In thirty-one meditations, he implores his readers with his usual pithiness to break through illusion, the great obst ...Show more
A Philosopher Looks at Sport by Stephen Mumford
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Category: Philosophy | Series: A\Philosopher Looks At Ser.
Why is sport so important among participants and spectators when its goals seem so pointless? Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, and argues that sports activities reflect diverse human experiences - including important values that we continue t ...Show more
Sun Tzu's Art of War: A Modern Exposition by SAM HUA
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Only enter the battles you know you can win. Know how to deceive the enemy appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. These are some of the key principles from The Art of War, the definitive text on military strategy and warfare, written by the Chinese general Sun Tzu around 500 BC. ...Show more
My View of the World by Erwin Schrödinger
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Category: Philosophy
A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schrdinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which summarize his philosophical views on the nature of the world. Schrdinger's world view, derived from the Indi ...Show more
The Art of War: Shambhala Pocket Library by Sun Tzu; Thomas Cleary
$21.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
In the words of Sun Tzu, "To win without fighting is best." This timeless Chinese classic captures the essence of military strategy used in ancient East Asia, with lessons on how to handle conflict confidently, efficiently, and successfully. The techniques and instructions discussed in The Art of War ap ...Show more
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Pushkin Collection
'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him ...Show more
Socrates in Love - The Making of a Philosopher by Armand D'Angour
$37.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers.Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the foundations of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athen ...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
Wittgenstein (The Great Philosophers) by Peter Hacker
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself' WittgensteinWittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the inner', of our subjective experience and of our knowledge of self and others. Traditional conceptions of 'the outer', of human behaviour, were equally distor ...Show more
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves by Steven Nadler, Lawrence Shapiro
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. They believe that vaccinations cause autism. They reject the scientific consensus on ...Show more
Life: a User's Manual - Philosophy for (almost) Any Eventuality by Julian Baggini; Antonia Macaro
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How should I live?What is my purpose?Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about h ...Show more