The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the fiel ...Show more
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death by Richard Holloway
33.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. A positive and profound exploration of the many important lessons we can learn, this is also a stirring plea to reacquaint ours ...Show more
THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD by Padma Sambhava; John Baldock
35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
How the World Thinks: Global/Philosophy by Julian Baggini
37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.
The Philosophy of Coffee by Brian Williams
30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: British Library Philosophy of Ser.
This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Africa over a millennium ago, to what it is today, a global phenomenon that is enjoyed around the world. It is the perfect gift for coffee lovers, including ...Show more
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag
28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher Wil ...Show more
Walking with Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles by Gary Hayden
20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
"If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright." So said Danish writer Soren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk from John O'Groats to Land's End. But it wasn't all quaint country lanes, picture-postcard villages and cos ...Show more
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Daniel;Cathcart Klein
23.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart take philosophy to task with flair a ...Show more
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
18.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
Everytime I Find the Meaning of Life ... by Daniel Klein
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the acclaimed author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college student studying philosophy, Daniel Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he could. Now ...Show more
I Think, Therefore I Am: All the Philosophy You Need to Know by Lesley Levene
15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: I Used to Know That ...
Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And ...Show more
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea by Edmund Fawcett
40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the American and European past. This engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many decades--traces liberalism's ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinker ...Show more