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Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A. C. Grayling
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of ...Show more
Among the Dead Cities : Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A.C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was ...Show more
God Argument by A.C. Grayling
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
$21.25 AUD
Category: Religion
A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible that draws on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing about all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life ...Show more
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book discusses a subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style. A book on scepticism from Anthony Grayling is to be greatly valued. Grayling is rare among academ ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
$29.99 AUD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Environment & Science
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 offere ...Show more
The God Argument - The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A C Grayling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Science | 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
$49.99 AUD
Category: Religion | 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 Book - A Secular Bible by A C Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Good Book is a book of insight, inspiration, wisdom, solace and commentary on the human condition drawn from the great humanist traditions of thought and literature of the world. Its princi-pal concern is how life - the good life - should be lived. Stimulating, thoughtful, rational and rewarding, it ...Show more
Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West by A. C. Grayling
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a ...Show more
Towards the Light : The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West by A.C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reference
The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms of gov ...Show more