Egyptian Mythology - A Traveler's Guide from Aswan to Alexandria by Garry J. Shaw
$35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Garry J. Shaw guides us on an entertaining and inventive tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris and their enemies and allies, stories of vengeance, tragedy and fantastic metamorphoses. This traveller's guide to ...Show more
Europe's 100 Best Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
$75.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Europe's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere in the world - which everyone should 'see before they die'. They are also hugely popular, most of them absolutely packed. They are humankind's greatest creations.In Europe's ...Show more
Everything Is Spiritual - A Brief Guide to Who We Are and What We're Doing Here by Rob Bell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In Everything is Spiritual, the author Rob Bell explores how ideas about creation, love and connection shaped him and how they shape every one of us. Bell observes that more than anything, people want to understand their purpose here on earth. And when you embrace who and where you come from, including ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
$32.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks. Pay attention.As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with real w ...Show more
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-admired Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, instead of sharing his love of literature, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of twenty-plus eminent thinkers ac ...Show more
Incerto: Fooled by Randomness the Black Swan the Bed of Procrustes Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, PH.D., MBA
$0.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Incerto
Nassim Nicholas Taleb s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and ...Show more
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
$44.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Michael Newton's Journey of Souls Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This remarkable book uncovers--for the first time--the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on earth. Dr. Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist in private practice, has developed his own hypnosis technique to reach his subjects' hidden memories of the hereafter. The resulting narrative acts as a p ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
$38.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life thorough the use of rationalism. Seneca's timeless essays provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that ...Show more
Magic and Myth: Ireland's Fairy Tales by Michael Scott
$15.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Myths, legends, and magic are woven together in a collection of enthralling Irish fairy tales from the New York Times bestselling author of the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. A haunting midnight dance that steals children away... An eerie fairy island that appears once every seven years ...Show more
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A ground-breaking book that examines the place of women in twentieth-century philosophy and is a call to arms for the present day 'Philosophy in a world of women. I reflected, talking with Mary, Pip and Elizabeth, how much I love them.' Two brilliant young scholars uncover the major (and unacknowledge ...Show more
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks
$39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In today's world of cultural climate change, argues Jonathan Sacks, we have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and to government on the other. If the market rewards it, it must be OK - unless the law says not to. Yet while the markets have brought wealth to many and the state has done m ...Show more