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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships [25th Anni by John Dr. Gray
$19.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
The legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship. 'A treasure', 'a bible' and 'an heirloom' are some of the ...Show more
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
$45.00 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheismWhen you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions--secular or religious--are highly questionable. If this prospect distu ...Show more
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
When you explore older atheisms, you will find some of your firmest convictions - secular or religious - are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be freedom from thought.'For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of rel ...Show more
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. A demolition of two and a half thousand years of thought, Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question their deepest held bel ...Show more
Straw Dogs - Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: an exciting, radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience. For most of our history religion provided a clear explanation for life and the afterlife. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries this framework came under relentless pressure as new ideas - from psychiatry ...Show more
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This title is nominated for "Sunday Times", "New Statesman" and "TLS" Books Of The Year. At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years we turned to religion for answers, but with the twentieth century came ideas from evolution and politics to suggest that our lives - ...Show more
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision co ...Show more
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This is the powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs John Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Freud and Conrad are mesmerised by forms of human extr ...Show more
The Silence of Animals - On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This is the powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs. 'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright'. Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap ...Show more
The Soul of the Marionette - A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actio ...Show more
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actio ...Show more