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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: History | 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
25.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of ...Show more
Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
21.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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: History
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
Democracy and its Crisis by A C Grayling
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas 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: Culture Ideas Politics
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: Culture Ideas Politics
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
Friendship by A. C. Grayling
36.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition ...Show more
Friendship by A. C. Grayling
26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Vices and Virtues Ser.
An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has frie ...Show more
God Argument by A.C. Grayling
19.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in ...Show more
Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
24.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
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: Mind Body Spirit
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