On Photography by Susan Sontag
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Ideas and Opinions is the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections cover works from his earliest days up to his death in 1955.
On Human Nature (25th Anniversary edition) by Edward O. Wilson (Pellegrino University Research Professor, HArvard University, USA)
$55.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Twenty-five years after its first publication, Harvard University Press has re-released Edward O. Wilson's classic work, "On Human Nature. A double Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilson is a writer of effortless grace and stylish succinctness and this is one of his finest, most important books...A highly influe ...Show more
Philosophy for Dummies by Thomas V. Morris
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: For Dummies | Reading Level: From 18 To 99
Philosophy at its best is an activity more than a body of knowledge. In an ancient sense, done right, it is a healing art. It's intellectual self-defense. It's a form of therapy. But it's also much more. Philosophy is map-making for the soul, cartography for the human journey. It's an important navigati ...Show more
Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How it Changed the World by Maurice Nathan Saatchi
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The principles of creativity revealed in deceptively simple words and pictures by the man behind the world's most successful advertising agency. Simplicity looks easy. It's not. It's easier to complicate than simplify. This book presents stunningly simple examples of concepts that have changed the worl ...Show more
Instant Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by Gareth Southwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Instant Ser.
Instant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete "cheat sheet", which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From Nietzsche and Nozick to empirici ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphas ...Show more
Grug Learns to Cook by Ted Prior
$5.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Grug Ser.
Try some scrumptious gum-leaf rolls prepared by Grug!This classic Aussie hero is back from the bush to enchant a new generation of youngsters!
Little Book of Philosophy by POULTON, RACHEL
$17.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Including accessible primers on: The early Ancient Greek philosophers and the 'big three': Socrates, Plato and Aristotle Key schools of philosophy a ...Show more
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings hel ...Show more
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
$9.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$32.99 AUD
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