Philosophy: The World's Greatest Thinkers by Philip Stokes
$13.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This book brings together the world's greatest philosophers in one comprehensive and easy to use volume. Designed to be dipped into again and again, this book will please people with both a casual and more serious interest in philosophy.
The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Fatherhood, Love and Raising Great Kids by Ryan Holiday, Nils Parker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad needs guidance: because fatherhood is not a one-off, it is something you do every day. Instead of a parenting book you read once as a sleep-deprived new parent, The Dail ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
Women & Power - A Manifesto by Mary Beard
$19.98 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Bea ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
Eagles's Gift by Carlos Castaneda
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched as a flash of lightning on the deserts and m ...Show more
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer; Jim Mason
$12.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it was r ...Show more
I Think Therefore I Draw - Understanding philosophy through cartoons by Daniel Klein; Thomas Cathcart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What's the best way to answer some of the biggest questions in life-questions like- Does God exist? What is the meaning of life? Is there a basic principle for all moral decisions? What is the best way to organise society? How do we know what is true? Are there limits to what we can know? Why do things ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A vivid description of the intellectual and political ferment of nineteenth-century Europe, Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto is one of history's most important documents. This powerful call to arms in the name of social change is presented in a beautifully illustrated hardback edition, and includes ...Show more
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky; Marv Waterstone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything ...Show more
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, ...Show more