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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne and Tony Evans
15.00 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Real Reads
‘Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the evening, I win.’ Phileas Fogg bets £20,000 that he can go round the world in eighty days – a huge sum of money in 1872, worth more than a million pounds today. When he ...Show more
The Art of Losing Control A Guide to Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
32.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit
Jules Evans is lying at the bottom of a mountain after a skiing accident. But he's not thinking about his broken femur. He's having an ecstatic revelation. Jules's brush with ecstasy leads him on an investigation: why have we been happy to accept Greek philosophy's attitude that rationality is the highe ...Show more
The Art of Losing Control : A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable of so many more states of experience?Piecing together interviews, analysis of ancient and modern philoso ...Show more
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