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  • The Persuaders

    The hidden industry that wants to change your mind

    by James Garvey ...
    'A work of engaging pop philosophy and accessible social science [and] a boisterous dissection of the forces jellifying our minds' Sunday TimesIncludes brand new material covering the US election and BrexitEvery day, many people will try to change your mind, but they won't reason with you. Instead, you'll be nudged, anchored, incentivised and manipulated in barely noticeable ways. It's a profound ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Philosophy

    A History of Western Thought

    by James Garvey, Jeremy Stangroom ...
    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 vagabonds. At the heart of it all are the ideas and obsessions that have captured great thinkers from ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers

    From Socrates to Foucault

    by James Garvey, Jeremy Stangroom ...
    The Great Philosophers traces the biggest and most influential thoughts in philosophy's long stride through history, beginning with the Ancient Greeks and Early Romans, the first philosophical thinkers in the West, to whom much is owed.How their concerns became the concerns of those who followed is clearly laid out, as is the way their answers shaped what we now recognize as philosophy. The ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Philosophers: Karl Marx, Charles Sanders Peirce and William James

    by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions, the questions which matter most.William James, in his last great work Some Problems of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Philosophers: George Berkeley, Voltaire and David Hume

    by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    What exists? How do we know? What are we going to do about it?These three questions are at the heart of philosophical enquiry, an endeavour which has stretched more than two thousand years. It's multiple branches, including ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and theology, have been pondered over by many a philosopher, and this series from The Independent introduces some of these great minds.The ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die Berühmtesten Philosophen

    by James Garvey ...
    Philosophie ist die Liebe zur Weisheit - dem Namen und der Sache nach. Sie beschäftigt sich mit den "großen" Fragen: Was ist die Natur der Welt? Was ist das Wesen des Menschen? Was sind die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten des Wissens? Was ist sittlich gutes Handeln? Was ist der Sinn des Lebens? Dieses Buch stellt 37 bedeutende Philosophen der westlichen Welt aus allen Epochen vor - von Sokrates über ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legend of MacNawckett Castle

    by James Garvey ...
    The Birch kids continue their adventures in the mountains of the scenic New England countryside. In the long avoided castle in the White Mountains, a mysterious man visits and invites the town to a Halloween costume party. Is his intention to help the town or seal the fate of the residents? ... Read more

    $3.88 CAD

  • The Treasure of Monterey Bay

    by James Garvey ...
    Th Birch kids discover there is something hidden in the rich and beautiful Monterey Bay. They know the sea otters are protecting it. But they are not alone in their quest to find what it is. Pirates still haunt the bay looking for the treasure and fending off any curious kids with a sea and land creaturea that that are thought to be only myths. Will the kids survive? ... Read more

    $3.88 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: The Other Greats

    by Jeremy Stangroom, Philip Stokes, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions, the questions which matter most.William James, in his last great work Some Problems of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Philosophers: Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger

    by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions, the questions which matter most.William James, in his last great work Some Problems of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of Climate Change

    Right and Wrong in a Warming World

    by Professor James Garvey ...
    Series series Think Now
    "Open this book and James Garvey is right there making real sense to you... in a necessary conversation, capturing you to the very end."*-*Ted Honderich, Grote Professor Emeritus of The Philosophy of Mind & Logic, University College London, UK.James Garvey argues that the ultimate rationale for action on climate change cannot be simply economic, political, scientific or social, though our ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal

    by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    What exists? How do we know? What are we going to do about it?These three questions are at the heart of philosophical enquiry, an endeavour which has stretched more than two thousand years. It's multiple branches, including ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and theology, have been pondered over by many a philosopher, and this series from The Independent introduces some of these great minds.The ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus