African Art in Transit - The Production of Value and Mediation of Knowledge in the African Art Trade by Christopher B. Steiner
$17.50 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect ...Show more
An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the principles of Common Sense (Seventh Edition) by Thomas Reid
$350.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Aristotle (The Great Philosophers) by Kenneth Mcleish
$19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist i ...Show more
Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven by Catherine Wolff
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
"Beautifully written, expertly researched and masterfully presented, this tour of how heaven has been understood throughout history is absolutely fascinating." -James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus- A Pilgrimage A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think abo ...Show more
Critiques And Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Administrative nihilism -- The school boards: what they can do, and what they may do -- On medical education -- Yeast -- On the formation of coal -- On coral and coral reefs -- On the methods and results of ethnology -- On some fixed points in British ethnology -- Palaeontology and the doctrine of evolu ...Show more
First & Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. Wells
$65.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
"First and Last Things - A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life" by H. G. Wells is a work of philosophy that set forth his beliefs in four "books" entitled "Metaphysics," "Of Belief," "Of General Conduct," and "Some Personal Things." The book was written at a time when Wells's "private life was to a con ...Show more
God's Funeral by A.N. Wilson
$17.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In this work, A.N. Wilson's account shows how the decline of religious certainty in Victorian times had its origin with the 18th-century sceptics, and brought a devastating sense of emotional loss which extends to our own times.
Gone Primitive - Savage Intellects, Modern Lives by Marianna D. Torgovnick
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture), Gone Primitive will engage not just specialists but anyone who ha ...Show more
Hegel (The Great Philosophers) by Raymond Plant
$19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it''What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned''Education is the art of making man ethical'Without Hegel, moder ...Show more
How to Survive a Crisis - Twelve Intelligence Strategies for When Disaster Strikes by David Omand
$55.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
'Sir David Omand is undoubtedly one of the most able people to have served in British government since the Second World War' TLS We never really know when a crisis might arise. Some 'black swan' events, like terrorist attacks or natural disasters, blow up suddenly out of a clear sky. But some crises bu ...Show more
Humanly Possible - Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope by Sarah Bakewell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR ***'I can' ...Show more