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Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: near fine
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
Among the Dead Cities : Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A.C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was ...Show more
Democracy and its Crisis by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more
Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible that draws on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing about all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life ...Show more
Good Book (Secular Bible) by A. C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Liberty in the Age of Terror: A defence of civil liberties and enlightenment news by A.C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." James Madison Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing freedom in our o ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...Show more
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book discusses a subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style. A book on scepticism from Anthony Grayling is to be greatly valued. Grayling is rare among academ ...Show more
The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
The Challenge of Things - Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writ ...Show more
The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the 21st Century by A.C. Grayling
$24.94 AUD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. It is on ...Show more