As If: Idealization and Ideals by Appiah, Kwame Anthony
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models in our scientific research and utopias in our political imaginations. Concepts like belief, desire, reason, and justice are bound up with idealizations and ideals. Life is a constant adjustment between the models we make ...Show more
Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'Wonderful and timely a Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRY What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might thinka Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question- how to be happy. His deepe ...Show more
Are We Bodies Or Souls? by SWINBURNE, RICH
$30.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defense of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by m ...Show more
Arguments by The School The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
An average couple will have between thirty and fifty significant arguments a year--and yet we're seldom taught very much about why they happen and how they could grow a little less intense. This is a guide to arguments in love: it teaches us why they might occur, what their symptoms are, how we could le ...Show more
Ancient Art of Growing Old by Tom Payne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Bette Davis said 'Old age ain't no place for sissies'. If that's true, we could all use a little help as we approach our twilight years. Translator Tom Payne turns to Cicero, Ovid, Seneca, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes to learn what the wisest minds of antiquity could tell us about the ...Show more
Altruism by Matthieu Ricard
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Category: Philosophy
The concern for the well-being of others could be the saving grace of the 21st century. Matthieu Ricard's Altruism, an erudite, brilliantly ranging synthesis of philosophy, psychology and ages old wisdom, is a radical call to kindness, which has the potential as a new global movement to answer the bigge ...Show more
Against Nature by Lorraine Daston
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America ...Show more
Age of Addiction: Bad Habits/Business by David T. Courtwright
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisticated global businesses have targeted the human brain's reward centers, driving us to addictions ranging from oxycodone to Big Macs to Assassin's Creed to Snapchat--with alarming social consequences. We l ...Show more
After Death Room .. Spiritual Activism by MCCOLLY, MICHAE
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
At the 13th International AIDS conference in Durban, Michael McColly, a journalist and yoga teacher living with AIDS, found himself confronted with the deeper issues and ethical dimensions of the epidemic. Seeing firsthand the destruction the disease was inflicting on South Africa and hearing the storie ...Show more
Spirituality Revolution by David Tacey
$27.95 AUD
Category: New Age
Why are we in the midst of a spiritual revolution at this point in history? Where is it heading? We are in the midst of a spiritual revolution. Churches are emptying and religious leaders are finding their status and authority increasingly challenged. Meanwhile the New Age movement continues to gr ...Show more
World Peace Diet - 10th Anniversary Ed. by Will M. Tuttle
$42.95 AUD
Category: Health (general)
New Tenth Anniversary Edition What is so simple as eating an apple? And yet, what could be more sacred or profound? Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the natural order and with our cultural heritage. But it is increasingly clear that the choices we make about food today are lea ...Show more
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines by Jennifer A. Reich
$44.95 AUD
Category: Health (general)
Winner, 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section Winner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology Association Honorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented by the Eastern Soc ...Show more