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A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1 ...Show more
Ancient Rhetoric - From Aristotle to Phi by Thomas N. Habinek
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to life in the ancient world, whether in the courtro ...Show more
Anti-Oedipus by Professor Gilles Deleuze
$45.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, "Anti-Oedipus" was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
$14.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
Bhagavad Gita by Juan Mascaro (Translator)
$5.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand Titles | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The 18 chapters of The Bhagavad-Gita (c. 500 BC), encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul, and the three central themes of this immortal poem - love, light and life - arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God.
Bhagavad Gita by Juan Mascaro (Translator)
$11.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The 18 chapters of The Bhagavad-Gita (c. 500 BC), encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul, and the three central themes of this immortal poem - love, light and life - arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God.
Bhagavad Gita by Juan Mascaro
$25.99 AUD
Category: Bhagavad Gita | Series: Penguin Classics S.
This intensely spiritual work forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, the god Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior Arjuna, who realizes ...Show more
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more
Buddhist Scriptures by Donald Lopez
$27.95 AUD
Category: Buddhist Sacred Texts | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of the Buddha. In this rich anthology, eminent scholar Donald S. Lopez, Jr., brings together works from a broad historical and geograp ...Show more
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tayo, a young World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns home to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese, and further wounded by the rejection and alienation that he feels amongst his own people, he faces a fierce struggle to find inner peace. O ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
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Category: Christianity | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more
Confucius - The Analects by Confucius
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Category: Taoism | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self ...Show more