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Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be...wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable,philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realis ...Show more
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
The phenomenal New York TimesBestseller by Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slowoffers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions.Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before ...Show more
Imperfect Creation: Cosmos, Life and Nature's Hidden Code by Marcelo Gleiser
$32.95 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY
A groundbreaking work of popular science for readers of Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins. For millennia, humankind has searched for an intellectual Holy Grail - a unifying scientific theory to explain the origins of the universe and our place in it. However, in Imperfect CreationMarcelo G ...Show more
The Road to Character by David Brooks
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success--"résumé virtues"--and our core principles. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought million ...Show more
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionises the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consis ...Show more
Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
$39.95 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY
Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and al ...Show more
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Héctor García; Fracesc Miralles
$24.99 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY
***NOW A BESTSELLER- 'I read it and it's bewitched me ever since. I'm spellbound? - Chris Evans***We all have an ikigai. Even if we don?t know it yet. Ikigai translates as 'a reason to live? or 'a reason to jump out of bed in the morning?. It?s the place where your needs, desires, ambitions, and satisf ...Show more
Taming Toxic People by David Gillespie
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
"I didn't know how to deal with the poisonous and toxic people in my life or why they behaved the way they did, so I went looking for an answer. This book is what I found."Bestselling author David Gillespie turns his attention to a phenomenon that damages businesses, seeds mental disease and discomfort ...Show more
Becoming Enlightened by Dalai Lama
$19.99 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY
Happily, we do not have to remain trapped by the past. His Holiness reveals how life-enhancing Buddhist practices, as relevant today as they have ever been, can help us break free from the cycles of suffering that ensnare us. He encourages us to broaden our outlook and to adjust our personal values. And ...Show more
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West by Sogyal Rinpoche (ed Patrick Gaffney & Andrew Harvey)
$29.99 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY
'What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at death and care for the dying and the whole way we look at life, and care for the living'. Written by Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book c ...Show more
Jung : The Key Ideas: Teach Yourself; an Introduction to Carl Jung's Pioneering Work on Analytical Psychology, Dreams, and the Collective Unconscious by Ruth Snowden
$22.99 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: TY Philosophy Ser.
From his upbringing and the development of his thinking, through his early work and influences, all the intricacies of Jung's complex systems of thought are discussed in a straightforward and jargon-free way. You will learn all the essential concepts, from the collective unconscious to archetypes in dre ...Show more