The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments - short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way - and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/herself. Experiments cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and many more. From Zeno's paradox to Ground ...Show more
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happine ...Show more
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
$44.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets--nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the ...Show more
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching - A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of ...Show more
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
$17.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
Intimate Antipathies by Luke Carman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Intimate Antipathies is a collection of essays on the writing life, offering Luke Carman's unique comic perspectives on writers' festivals, residencies and conferences, the particular challenges faced by writers who grow up in contested borderlands like the suburbs of Western Sydney, and the connections ...Show more
Literature and Evil by George Bataille, Georges Bataille
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Bro ...Show more
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In this highly anticipated new book, the bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation call for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Sam Harris discovered that ...Show more
A First Place by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offering ...Show more
The Emotion Thesaurus - A Writer's Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman; Becca Puglisi
$50.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as "the gold standard for writers" and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When ...Show more
The Most Good You Can Do - How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas aboutLiving Ethically by Singer Peter, Peter Singer
$23.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Internationally renowned philosopher Peter Singer presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving: a substantial prop ...Show more
Good Book (Secular Bible) by A. C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-religious alternative to the many people who do not follow one of the world's great religions. Instead, going back to traditions older than Christianity, and ...Show more