Category: Philosophy and Religion
A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a s ...Show more
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This is a book that should never fall into the hands of children - for it is filled with the darkest truths about life that might unbearably depress the young. However, for the older ones among us, this is a book full of solace, humour and relief. In a charming, naively illustrated tale, we follow the a ...Show more
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser.
A philosophical look at HBO's Westworld that charts a course through the maze of the mind, examining how we think about humans, hosts, and the divide between authentic and artificial life The first book dedicated to exploring the philosophical questions raised by the record-breaking, award-winning HB ...Show more
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Opening with a frank and touching reflection on his personal beliefs, he lays out Hinduism's origins and its key philosophical concepts -- including Vedanta, the Purusharthas, and Bhakti -- before focusing on texts such as the Bhagadvagita. The 'Great Souls', or key individuals of Hinduism, from Adi Sha ...Show more
Category: Health and Lifestyle
"Would you rather your child was smart or good?" Talk With Your Kids: Ethics has over 100 conversational and interactive questions for parents to discuss with their children to help decipher their child's stance on ethics, and hopefully sharpen the 'right values'. Academic achievement is not the only ...Show more
Category: History, Politics and Society
This book arises from the author's half a century and more of political and public policy involvement. It's a response to evidence of a precipitous decline in active citizenship, resulting from a loss of confidence in politics, politicians, parties and parliamentary democracy; the rise of 'lying for hir ...Show more
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation for more than 2000 years, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of the West where Christianity has become a minority faith rather than the mainstream belief. It's a situa ...Show more
Category: History, Politics and Society
In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god aros ...Show more
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati ...Show more
Category: Philosophy and Religion
'Wonderful and timely a Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRY What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might thinka Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question- how to be happy. His deepe ...Show more
Category: Travel
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history ...Show more
