Retreat - The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit
$39.95 AUD
Category: Meditation & Relaxation
Retreat is a stunning journey through the many ways humans go on retreat - religious, spiritual and secular - both in today's world and in our past 'Reads at times like Eat Pray Love as written by David Foster Wallace. A rich and almost eerily timely book' William Fiennes, author of The Snow Geese Step ...Show more
Create Your Own Religion - A How-To Book Without Instructions by Daniele Bolelli
$53.95 AUD
Category: Psychology, Self-Help & Wellbeing
"One of the most refreshing, humorous, and radically honest books about practical and comparative religion this reviewer has ever come across."--Library Journal (starred review) Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms--an open invitation to question all the values, beliefs, and worldviews that hu ...Show more
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves by Steven Nadler, Lawrence Shapiro
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. They believe that vaccinations cause autism. They reject the scientific consensus on ...Show more
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting & Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts
$29.95 AUD
Category: Cult Studies
"Do Better is a clear, powerful, direct, wise, and extremely helpful treatise on how to combat and heal from the ubiquitous violence of white supremacy. Using a voice that is both passionate and compassionate, Rachel Ricketts instructs where necessary and soothes when needed--but never flinches from the ...Show more
The Nature of Truth, Second Edition - Classic and Contemporary Perspectives by Junyeol Kim (Editor); Nathan Kellen (Editor); Michael P. Lynch (Editor); Jeremy Wyatt (Editor)
$110.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The definitive and essential collection of classic and new essays on analytic theories of truth, revised and updated, with seventeen new chapters. The question What is truth? is so philosophical that it can seem rhetorical. Yet truth matters, especially in a post-truth society in which lies are tole ...Show more
Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions by Robin Derricourt
$34.95 AUD
Category: Comparative & Miscellaneous Religion
What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? In this bold new book, award-winning author Robin Derricourt takes us on a journey through the birth and growth of several major religions, using history and archaeology to recreate the times, places and societies that witn ...Show more
The Nature of Conspiracy Theories by Michael Butter
$36.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones – that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the Ukrainian crisis was orchestrated b ...Show more
On Modern Art by Jean-Paul Sartre
$20.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\French List Ser.
A collection of insightful essays by the French philosopher on contemporary art. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through th ...Show more
In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World by Kirsteen MacLeod
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat — where we go, why we're drawn, and how it's urgentFrom pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient pra ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
Matter and Desire by Dr. Andreas Weber
$33.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies. Being alive ...Show more
In Search of the Soul - A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today The concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times. What do we mean when we talk about finding our soul, how do we know we have one, and does it hold any r ...Show more