Foucault for Architects by Gordana Fontana-Giusti
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Thinkers for Architects | Reading Level: very good
From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transfor ...Show more
A Week At The Airport - A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and ...Show more
Between the Monster and the Saint - Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Provocative, wide-ranging and full of wisdom, Between the Monster and the Saintis a brilliant book about our place in the world. Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are dangerous and unpredictable places. We are susceptible ...Show more
The Philosophical Works Of The Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke by Henry St John
$150.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good-very good
Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus
$45.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature
This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force ...Show more
Bushido - The way of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto; Justin F Stone (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia
In the sixteenth-century Japan, Tsunetomo Yamamoto created the Hagakure which was secretly circulated among the "awakened" samurai-the samurai elite. In 1906, the book was first made available to the general Japanese public and, until 1945, its guiding principles greatly influenced the Japanese ruling ...Show more
The Philosophy of G. E. Moore by G. E. Moore; Paul Arthur Schilpp (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The Library of Living Philosophers Volume IV | Reading Level: very good
For almost a half-century G.E. Moore has exercised an enormous influence on modern thought. Since 1903, when his famous Refutation of Idealism burst upon the philosophical world, he has had a long and distinguished career. The present volume is a living testament to this great realist and to his reputat ...Show more
Bayes's Theorem by Richard Swinburne (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Proceedings of the British Academy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bayes's theorem is a tool for assessing how probable evidence makes some hypothesis. The papers in this volume consider the worth and applicability of the theorem. Richard Swinburne sets out the philosophical issues. Elliott Sober argues that there are other criteria for assessing hypotheses. Colin Hows ...Show more
The Works of Voltaire translated from the French with Notes, Historical and Critical Vol. XV being Vol. IV of his Dramatic Works by M de Voltaire; T Smollett; T Francklin
$50.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
The Works of Voltaire translated from the French with Notes, Historical and Critical Vol. XIX being Vol. XIV of his prose works by M de Voltaire; T Smollett; T Francklin
$50.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Arguing about War by Michael Walzer
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A provocative discussion of recent wars and the issues that surround them, written by a preeminent political theorist Michael Walzer is one of the world's most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three ...Show more