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Being a Beast by Charles Foster
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a di ...Show more
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, eating earthworms and learning to sense the landscape by smell rather than sight. He tri ...Show more
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness by Charles Foster
$27.99 NZD
Category: Psychology
A radical work of nature writing and philosophical enquiry, resituating us in our real human skins. 'A wonderful, wild, dazzling book. You will feel more human for having read it' - Literary Review 'Foster's daringly imaginative exploration of alternative models of selfhood is an original and beneficial ...Show more
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness by Charles Foster
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A radical work of nature writing and philosophical enquiry, resituating us in our real human skins. A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021 What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what ...Show more
Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Foster
$21.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Medical law is concerned with our bodies, and what happens to them during and after our lives. When things go wrong with our bodies, we want to know what our rights are, and what governs the conduct of the clinicians into whose hands we put our lives and limbs. Dealing with matters of life and death, it ...Show more
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