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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
The Art of Always Being Right : Thirty Eight Ways to Win When You are Defeated by Arthur Schopenhauer (tr T Bailey Saunders; ed A C Grayling)
$34.90 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Which are the logical tricks that will let you slip through the net when faced with awkward questions? How can you yourself use arguments to deflect difficult situations? Do you recognize all flaws in someone else's argument? This the book the BBC, Andrew Gilligan, Lord Hutton, Tony Blair and Alistair C ...Show more
The Challenge of Things - Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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
The Choice of Hercules: Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st Century by A. C. Grayling
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A. C. Grayling uses as the starting point of his masterful new book. He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today's moral challenges. Above ...Show more
The Choice of Hercules - Pleasure, Duty and the good life in the 21st century by A C Grayling
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher AC Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book. He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today's moral challenges. Above all, he ...Show more
The Form of Things by A.C. Grayling
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things... are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. It is ...Show more
The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the 21st Century by A.C. Grayling
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. It is on ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks ...Show more
The God Argument - The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A C Grayling
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good
There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in ...Show more
The Good Book - A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
$60.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life - A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible. D ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
The Heart of Things by A.C. Grayling
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. Grayling Everyone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of people one, in turn, respects. And one of the funda ...Show more