Zen in the Garden: The Japanese Art of Meditative Gardening by Miki Sakamoto
37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter - wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected. Japanese by birth, but transplanted to Europe in adulthood, Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...Show more
In Search of Being - The Fourth Way to Consciousness by G.I. Gurdjieff
45.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Over one hundred years ago in Russia, G. I. Gurdjieff introduced a spiritual teaching of conscious evolution-a way of gnosis or "knowledge of being" passed on from remote antiquity. Gurdjieff's early talks in Europe were published in the form of chronological fragments preserved by his close followers P ...Show more
Wolfish: The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom by Erica Berry
36.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our relationships w ...Show more
An Inconvenient Apocalypse - Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity by Wes Jackson; Robert Jensen
70.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction. For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse--and yet the onl ...Show more
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. Mencken
38.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Friedrich Nietzsche Ser.
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. Mencken. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. When this attempt to ...Show more
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?In Rationality, Pin ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
34.99 NZD
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
Imagine If... by Ken Robinson
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Imagination and creativity are at the root of every uniquely human achievement and those achievements have brought us to this present moment. We are now the largest population in human history- seven and half billion people, rising to nine billion by 2050. Our technologies are evolving exponentially, b ...Show more
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
17.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Epicureanism offers the perfect cure for our anxious age. What can it teach us about the art of happiness?What do we really need in order to live a happy life? Over two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer- pleasure. All we really want is pleasure.Today we ...Show more
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished And Selected Writings by Robert M Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
36.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought--"quality"--featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works."The ultimate goal in the pursuit of e ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still be ...Show more