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The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
$9.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the beauty and joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the ...Show more
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World by Roman Krznaric
$26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
'This is the book our children's children will thank us for reading' - The Edge, U2How can we be good ancestors?From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabit, to the scientific discoveries that have ensured our survival, we are the inheritors of cou ...Show more
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
$35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
$18.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas | 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
Yes to Life Inspite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
Extraordinary uncovered work by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man's Search For Meaning Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy for which he would become world ...Show more
Philosophy for Polar Explorers by Erling Kagge
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
For millennia exploration has been central to man's quest for meaning and knowledge. For when we set our sights on the horizons, we bring everything us around into focus. Erling Kagge was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's poles by foot - the North, the South and the summit of Everest. ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft; Miriam Brody (Notes by, Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history? Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong ...Show more
Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger
$55.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a jobbing critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein signs away his inheritance to teach schoolchildren in a provincial Austrian village, seeking spiritual clarity. Martin Heidegger renounces his faith and align his fortunes with the ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl
$28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
$31.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
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
History of God by Karen Armstrong
$35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
"The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable p ...Show more
The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
A poignant, urgent memoir about insomnia from the acclaimed author of The Western Wind Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the worl ...Show more
