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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
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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 : Was the Allied bombing of civilians in World War II a necessity of a crime? by A C Grayling
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History
In the course of WWII, the air forces of Britain and the United States of America carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan, ending with the destruction of Hamburg and Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was it justified by the necessities of war? Or was it, in ...Show more
Among the Dead Cities : Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A.C. Grayling
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was ...Show more
Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
Descartes - The life of Rene Descartes andits place in his times by A.C. Grayling
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Scientist, mathematician, traveller, soldier - and spy - Rene Descartes has been called the 'father of modern philosophy'. Born in 1596 into an era still dominated by the medieval mindset, he was one of the chief actors in the riveting drama that ushered in the modern world. His life coincided with an e ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
Ideas That Matter by A.C. Grayling
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can - and does - change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move ...Show more
Liberty in the Age of Terror: A defence of civil liberties and enlightenment news by A.C. Grayling
$29.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
"The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." James Madison Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing freedom in our o ...Show more
The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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
The Art of Always Being Right : The 38 Subtle Ways to Win an Argument by Arthur Schopenhauer (ed A.C. Grayling)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
In discussions and meetings the aim of everyone is to persuade. Yet we know that really the best result is obtained by the person who is most skilled in holding his position. "The Art of Always Being Right" catalogues the 38 subtle tricks businessmen, negotiators, politicians, lawyers use to gain advant ...Show more