How to Find Fulfilling Work - The School of Life by Roman Krznaric
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
This is a book about how to take working life in new directions how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides are ...Show more
How to Worry Less About Money (The School of Life series) by John Armstrong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upside do ...Show more
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage
Anyone who' s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor' s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton' s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a ...Show more
The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Any Baedeker will tell us "where" we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us "how" and "why. "With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life," "de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of notici ...Show more
How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
Why Its Hard to be Good by Al Gini
$90.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Al Gini explores just how difficult it is to do the right thing in his engaging new book, "Why it's Hard to be Good". It is not only individuals who are faced with ethical issues on a daily basis, but businesses too and both are bound together by the same dilemma: how to choose the right thing to do and ...Show more
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies in education and for the necessity o ...Show more
Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.
Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights by Alan M. Dershowitz
$24.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Prominent Lawyer Alan Dershowitz delivers an original, thought-provoking and controversial examination of the age-old legal debate - what is the source of our human rights? This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are ' ...Show more
On Humbug by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world; the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers in history is shared in this book that provides advice on day-to-day struggles, such as a broken heart or cash flow problems. Illustrations.
Love and Friendship by Allan Bloom
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connec ...Show more