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
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 ...Show more
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
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
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
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 t ...Show more
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
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
Category: PHILOSOPHY
Featuring Freud! Groucho Marx! Socrates! Lily Tomlin! Kierkegaard! Buddha! New Yorker cartoonists! Zombies! And of course, Heidegger! Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. Now they tu ...Show more
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
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
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 Freud's complex systems of thought are discussed in a straightforward and jargon-free way. You will learn all the essential concepts, from psychosexual development to dream analysis. Th ...Show more
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