Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Psychology & Philosophy
The Better Angels
Of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
PB $32.95
Given the images of
conflict we see daily on
our screens, can violence
really have declined? And
wasn’t the twentieth
century the most
devastatingly brutal in
history? Extraordinarily,
however, violence within
and between societies really has declined from
prehistory to today. Debunking the idea of the
‘noble savage’ Pinker argues that modernity and its
cultural institutions are making us better people.
A Little History
Of Philosophy
Nigel Warburton
HB $29.95
Philosophy begins with
questions about the
nature of reality and how
we should live. These
were the concerns of
Socrates, who spent his
days in the ancient
Athenian marketplace
asking awkward
questions. This engaging book introduces the great
thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their
most compelling ideas about the world and how
best to live in it.
Thinking Fast
And Slow
Daniel Kahneman
PB $29.95
Nobel Prize recipient
Daniel Kahneman takes
us on a groundbreaking
tour of the mind and
explains the two systems
that drive the way we
think and make choices.
Drawing on a lifetime’s
experimental experience,
Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust
our intuitions and how we can tap into the
benefits of slow thinking.
War Of the
Worldviews
Deepak Chopra and
Leonard Mlodinow
PB $32.95
Chopra argues that there
is design in our universe
and a deep intelligence
behind life. He shows
how consciousness
comes first and matter
second. On the other
side, Mlodinow argues the
viewpoint of science. In his view, physics, genetics
and cosmology will shed far more light on the big
questions than rethinking ancient spiritual
concepts can ever do.
Philosophers
Steve Pyke
HB $42.95
Steve Pyke is known
for his stunning
portraits of
prominent authors,
artists, actors and
intellectuals. In this
riveting collection
Pyke presents 100
portraits of contemporary philosophers,
photographed in his distinctive style. The facing
page of each portrait contains a brief piece written
by the subject on the nature of philosophy and
their place in it.
How To Be An
Existentialist
Gary Cox
PB $19.95
A concise, witty and
entertaining book about the
philosophy of
existentialism. It is also a
genuine self-help book
offering clear advice on
how to live according to the
principles of existentialism
formulated by Nietzsche,
Sartre, Camus and the other great existentialist
philosophers. An attack on contemporary excuse
culture, the book urges us to face the hard
existential truths of the human condition.