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Do You Think What You Think You Think? The ultimate philosophy quiz book by Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom (illus Katharine Reeve)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion
Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? Really, it won't hurt a bit...Is what you believe coherent and consistent? Or is it a jumble of contradictions? If you could design yourself a God, what would He (or She, or It) be like? Can you spot the logical flaw in an argument (even if ...Show more
Does God Hate Women? by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom
$47.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion
The new book from high profile philosophy writers Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom (authors of the hugely successful "Why Truth Matters"), exploring a topical and controversial religious and cultural issue in a highly accessible manner.This fascinating book explores the role that religion and culture ...Show more
Einstein's Riddle: 50 Riddles, Puzzles, and Conundrums to Stretch Your Mind by Jeremy Stangroom
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. ...Show more
Great Thinkers A-Z by Julian Baggani & Jeremy Stangroom (eds)
$37.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Great Thinkers A-Z brings together 101 lively and concise snapshots of the people who have shaped Western thought from ancient times to today. The key figures from all major Western philosophical traditions and periods are here. Also included are other major thinkers, such as Freud, Darwin and Einstein, ...Show more
Is Your Neighbour a Zombie? Philosophical Riddles, Paradoxes And Conundrums to Stretch Your Mind by Jeremy Stangroom
$19.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Jorge Romero is facing a big problem. His neighbours are convinced he is a soulless zombie. What can he say to persuade them he's a conscious being just like them, and save his neck? Is Your Neighbour a Zombie? brings together philosophical puzzles and problems to challenge your preconceptions and chang ...Show more
Philosophy : 50 Ideas in 500 Words by Jeremy Stangroom
$21.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: 50 Ideas in 500 Words Ser.
Philosophy : 50 in 500 unravels its most central concepts through five tightly focused chapters. From metaphysics to modern economic theories, from grou ndbreaking advances inspired in psychology to its relationship with postmodernist theory, this book examines the greatest ide as from the greatest thin ...Show more
Psychology: 50 Theories in 500 Words - 50 Theories in 500 Words by Jeremy Stangroom
$21.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: 50 Ideas in 500 Words Ser.
Psychology: 50 in 500 sheds light on these and other crucial questions by examining the ideas and work of fifty of the world_s greatest psychologists. From B. F. Skinner to Noam Chomsky, Sigmund Freud to Abraham Maslow, this beautifully concise, richly informative little book discusses the ideas and exp ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy: A History of Western Thought by Jeremy Stangroom
$10.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. It's a story with plot twists, a murder, accidental discoveries, disastrous love affairs, geniuses, idiots, monks, and vagabond ...Show more
What More Philosophers Think by Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom (eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Following on from the success of the first edition of "What Philosophers Think", this second edition brings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals and leading figures in the arts and politics, including: Bernard Williams ...Show more
What Philosophers Think by Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom (eds)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
What does evolution mean today? Do we have free will? How is technology changing the way we understand life? Where is God? Does art have a value? Is science the new philosophy? What are the ethics of making war? How does language hold meaning? Is freedom possible? These are only some of the questions ...Show more
Would You Eat Your Cat?: Key Ethical Conundrums, and What They Tell You About Yourself by Jeremy Stangroom
$19.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Are you an authoritarian or a libertarian? Are we morally obliged to end the world? And just what's wrong with eating your cat? Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these, and many other questions. This unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to challeng ...Show more
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