The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
Yes to Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Extraordinary uncovered work by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man's Search For Meaning Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy for which he would become world fa ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
Pocket Philosophy: Heidegger's Lizard by Alice Briere-Haquet
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Category: Philosophy
By adapting famous animal parables, the Pocket Philosophy series seeks to introduce inquisitive readers of all ages - from 1 to 100! - to the biggest names in philosophy.
Pocket Philosophy: Epictetus' Raven by Alice Briere-Haquet
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Category: Philosophy
By adapting famous animal parables, the Pocket Philosophy series seeks to introduce inquisitive readers of all ages - from 1 to 100! - to the biggest names in philosophy.
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: good
This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourse ...Show more
Trying Not to Try by Edward Slingerland
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Category: Philosophy
Why is it hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an athlete who chokes? What if, contrary to what we have long been told, spontaneity - not striving - is the answer to success? Through st ...Show more
Philosophy in 100 Quotes by Gareth Southwell
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Category: Philosophy
The story of philosophy through 100 wonderful quotes.
The Life You Can Save (10th Anniversary Ed) How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
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Category: Philosophy
In the 10th Anniversary edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives bo ...Show more
On Getting Off - Sex and Philosophy by Damon Young
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Category: Philosophy
The curious reader's companion to sex. 'Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.' — Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explo ...Show more
On Failure: How to succeed at defeat (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing - in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of sha ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more