How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry
$24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: good
There is no simple set of instructions that can guarantee sanity, but if you want to overcome emotional difficulties and become happier, psychotherapist Philippa Perry argues that there are four cornerstones to sanity you can influence to bring about change. By developing your self-observation skills, e ...Show more
Fate & Philosophy: A Journey Through Life's Great Questions by Jim Flynn
$33.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Jim Flynn is on a mission to change how we think about the modern world, our place in it, and the moral choices we make. In The Torchlight List he argued that great literature can change lives. Now in Fate & Philosophy, he looks at tough moral decisions we face and urges us not to be influenced by s ...Show more
What Do We Really Know? The Big Questions in Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
$27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In What Do We Really Know? Simon Blackburn addresses the twenty most-asked philosophical questions, including 'Can machines think?', 'What is the meaning of life?', 'Is death to be feared?', 'Why be good?', 'What am I?' and 'What do we really know?' Each 3000-word essay examines a question that has eter ...Show more
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
$32.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4. 'This book is about change.' We are all storytellers - we make stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. In his work as a practising psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years unc ...Show more
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
50 Philosophy of Science Ideas You Really Need to Know by Gareth Southwell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Science first began as a branch of philosophy, but it has since grown up and moved out of the family home, and its successes have put its parent in the shade. Thanks to scientific knowledge we have walked on the Moon, cured once-fatal illnesses, and even identified the very building blocks of life and t ...Show more
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World by Stephen Trombley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy by Bryan Magee
$48.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy is the ultimate exploration of 2,500 years of Western philosophy. From the Ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, The Story of Philosophy brings a stunning and simple approach to tackle history's biggest ideas. Professor Bryan Magee takes you from the origins of philosophy to the pr ...Show more
When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life by Saul Frampton
$28.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his father, his brother, and most recently his first-born child. But finding his mind agitated rather than sett ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
$14.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
As a young Florentine envoy to the courts of France and the Italian principalities, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) was able to observe firsthand the lives of people strongly united under one powerful ruler. His fascination with that political rarity and his intense desire to see the Medici family assume ...Show more
Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
$30.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each--from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir--offers practical and spiritual lessons for today's unsettled time ...Show more