History of Western philosophy

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Book Cover:  Who Am I? And If So How Many? A Philosophical Journey
By Richard Precht

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH YOUR MIND AND GIVES YOU THE ANSWERS TO THE BIG PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS

There are many books about philosophy, but Who Am I? And If So How Many? is different from the rest. Never before has anyone introduced readers so expertly and, at the same time, so light-heartedly and elegantly to the big philosophical questions.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH YOUR MIND AND GIVES YOU THE ANSWERS TO THE BIG PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS

There are many books about philosophy, but Who Am I? And If So How...

Published: 28/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640971
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Socrates
By Paul Johnson

SOCRATES is hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time and is oftern called the father of philosophy.  Yet he left no writing of his own, so what we know of his life and ideas we know from the works of his student Plato and other contemporaries.  And what these accounts tell us is as important today as it was then.  Socrates taught-and indeed strove to embody-his credo that how...

SOCRATES is hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time and is oftern called the father of philosophy.  Yet he left no writing of his own, so what we know of his life and ideas we know from...

Published: 07/12/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670023035
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Centennial Edition)
By Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils...

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes...

Published: 01/08/1987
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451147950
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Meditations: Popular Penguins
These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself and the universe, and cover diverse topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality and the nature of the gods.
These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself and the universe, and cover diverse topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality and the nature of the gods.
Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143566328
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
By Baltasar Gracian

'No one is born complete; perfect yourself and your activities day by day until you become a truly consummate being, your talents and your qualities all perfected'

'No one is born complete; perfect yourself and your activities day by day until you become a truly consummate being, your talents and your qualities all perfected'

Published: 07/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141442457
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Nausea: Popular Penguins

Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times – existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realization that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility...

Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times – existentialism...

Published: 28/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141194844
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Nausea: With Introduction
By Jean Paul Sartre
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times – existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realization that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility...
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times – existentialism...
Published: 01/12/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141185491
RRP: $18.95
Book Cover:  Words
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sarte recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War; an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for reading and writing. A brilliant work of self-analysis, Words...
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sarte recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism...
Published: 19/09/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141183466
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Concept of Mind
By Gilbert Ryle
If our bodies exist in space and time, subject to the laws of physics, our minds must be somehow hidden within them like strange immaterial 'Ghosts in the Machine'. Introspection may give us direct access to our own mental world, but we can never know much about other people's. Such views have been regarded as common sense since Descartes, argues Gilbert Ryle, but they are based on a disastrous 'category-mistake'...
If our bodies exist in space and time, subject to the laws of physics, our minds must be somehow hidden within them like strange immaterial 'Ghosts in the Machine'. Introspection may give us direct access...
Published: 23/10/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141182179
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he addresses lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety and conformity. De Botton's book led one critic to call philosophy 'the new rock and roll'.
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca...
Published: 01/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141038377
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Why do so many of us love or hate our work?
How has it come to dominate our lives?
And what should we do about it?

Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives. Yet for many of us, work is a straitjacket from which we cannot free ourselves.


Why do so many of us love or hate our work?
How has it come to dominate our lives?
And what should we do about it?

Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control...


Published: 25/05/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141027913
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Great Ideas: The Symposium
By Plato
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
Published: 24/10/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141023847
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Status Anxiety
Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering from status anxiety?

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer – to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment – from status anxiety.

For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to his universal condition...

Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering from status anxiety?

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure...

Published: 02/05/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141014869
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Architecture of Happiness

Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks: What makes a house truly beautiful?Why are many new houses so ugly?Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures – and can differences of taste ever...

Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our...

Published: 03/09/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141015002
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Last Days of Socrates
By Plato

Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedro

'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'

Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedro

'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'

Published: 13/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140455496
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Georgics: A Poem of the Land
By Virgil

'I have seen the armies of wind clash
uprooting plump grain left and right from deepest roots'

'I have seen the armies of wind clash
uprooting plump grain left and right from deepest roots'

Published: 11/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140455632
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  On Living and Dying Well
By Cicero

'They might as well take the sun from the heavens when they take friendship from life!  The immortal gods have given us nothing better or more enjoyable than friendship'

'They might as well take the sun from the heavens when they take friendship from life!  The immortal gods have given us nothing better or more enjoyable than friendship'

Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140455564
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Republic
By Plato
Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose...
Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion...
Published: 19/09/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140455113
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Early Greek Philosophy
By Jonathan Barnes
Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and enigmatic epigrams – all form part of a revolution in human thought which relied on reasoning to justify its conclusions and forged the first scientific vocabulary.

Although none of their original writings have come down to us complete, patient...

Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and enigmatic epigrams – all form part of a revolution...
Published: 10/02/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140448153
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Meditations & Other Metaphysical Writings
By Rene Descartes
The Meditations (1641) must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. The six Meditations and accompanying selections from the Objections and Replies provide a definitive statement of what Descartes intended as the foundations of his whole philosophy. His project was to resolve the epistemological questions brought about by the prevailing scepticism of his age; to build, from the basis of self-awareness...
The Meditations (1641) must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. The six Meditations and accompanying selections from the Objections and Replies provide a definitive statement of what Descartes intended...
Published: 25/03/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140447019
RRP: $9.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

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