Earthly Immortalities - How the Dead Live on in the Lives of Others by Peter Moore
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In this thought-provoking book, Peter Moore examines the often overlooked issues concerning human mortality, the fragile ways in which the dead can be said to "live on" in earthly terms: through their children, their work, the memories of others, their possessions, and even their bodies. Such earthly im ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
$16.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher. Draft No. 4is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most ...Show more
Time to Die by Rodney Syme
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he considers not only the ordeals experienced at the end of life, but also the suffering endured by those who are not dying but are in incurable pain. He shows through the stories of these people and ...Show more
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothe ...Show more
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers. On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he woul ...Show more
Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor W. Adorno; Max Horkheimer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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Spinoza's Overcoat: Poets by Subhash Jaireth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ....' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and othe ...Show more
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
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more