The Invisible Woman: Taking on the Vintage Years by Helen Walmsley-Johnson
27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Sixty is the new forty, we're constantly told. Or is it that seventy is the new fifty? Yet fashionable clothes shops cater for little but elfin twenty-year-olds; magazines carry little but articles about appearing younger. Heaven forbid you try to apply for a job...Older women are permitted to be either ...Show more
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life... by Daniel Klein
37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college student studying philosophy, Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he ...Show more
Nein - A Manifesto by Eric Jarosinski
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Nein. A Manifesto. is an irreverent philosophical investigation into the everyday that sounds the call to rediscover its strangeness. Inspired by the philosophical aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, Jarosinski's epigrammatic style reinvents short-form philosophy f ...Show more
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
32.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Almost all of us want to make a difference. So we volunteer, donate to charity, recycle or try to cut down our carbon emissions. But rarely do we know how much of a difference we're really making. In a remarkable re-examination of the evidence, Doing Good Better reveals why buying sweatshop-produced goo ...Show more
The Four Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World by Laurence Scott
57.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
This book is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the third-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant in ...Show more
Cool Philosophy: Filled with Facts for Kids of All Ages by Daniel Tatarsky
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Inside this philosophy-stuffed book are fifty fact-tastic ways to advance your thinking skills, so you'll never be scratching your head in bemusement ever again. Featuring the key philosophic principles of every philosopher you've heard of (and some you haven't), from prominent ancient Greek thinkers su ...Show more
Caring Economics by Tania Singer
29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Can the hyper-ambitious, bottom-line-driven practices of the global economy incorporate compassion into the pursuit of wealth? Or is economics driven solely by materialism and self-interest? In Caring Economics, experts consider these questions alongside the Dalai Lama in a wide-ranging, scientific-base ...Show more
Quest for a Moral Compass: History/Ethic by Kenan Malik
28.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
The story of the global search for moral truths In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great philosophe ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
36.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
45.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actio ...Show more
The Concept Of Anxiety A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation In View Of The Dogmatic Problem Of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Brilliantly synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Soren Kierkegaard presented, in 1844, The Concept of Anxiety as a landmark "psychological deliberation," suggesting that our only hope in overcoming anxiety was not through "powder and pills" but by embracing it with open arms. While Kierkega ...Show more
Miracles by Eric Metaxas
57.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
An inspiring and eye-opening exploration of the phenomenon of miracles from the "New York Times "#1 bestselling author of "Bonhoeffer. " What are miracles, and why do so many people believe in them? What do they tell us about ourselves? And what do we do with experiences that we cannot explain? In "Mira ...Show more