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Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
$21.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
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
Democracy and Its Crisis by A C Grayling
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
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: Politics & Society
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
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to avoid disaster. 'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, t ...Show more
Good Book (Secular Bible) by A. C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Religion
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
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science & 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
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & 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
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reference
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still be ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A. C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled, and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary-among them addressing the imbalance of power be ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. B ...Show more