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Hippocratic Oaths : Medicine and its discontents by Raymond Tallis
$29.95 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Poet, philosopher, novelist and physician, Professor Raymond Tallis is one of the world's foremost thinkers. In this book, for the first time, he brings together his diverse intellectual interests to address profoundly important questions about our well-being. Blending philosophy, polemic, and a lifetim ...Show more
Hunger by Raymond Tallis
$35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Art of Living
Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed into a multitude of needs ...Show more
In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis
$0.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
In these lively and provocative essays, philosopher, polymath and all-round intellectual heavyweight, Raymond Tallis debunks commonplace truths, exposes woolly thinking and pulls the rug from beneath a wide range of commentator whether scientist, theologian, philosopher or pundit. Tallis takes to task m ...Show more
The Black Mirror - Fragments of an Obituary for Life by Raymond Tallis
$45.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"Inspired by E. M. Forster's thought that 'Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him', The Black Mirror takes death as an external viewpoint from which we may see our lives more clearly. Raymond Tallis looks back on his world from the standpoint of his future corpse. He reflects on the senses th ...Show more
The Kingdom of Infinite Space : A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head by Raymond Tallis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the act of blushing and the amount of manganese in our tears (tears of pain contain more than tears of distress) to the curiousness of a kiss, "The Kingdom of Infinite Space" explores the astonishing range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. Aft ...Show more
The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A fantastical journey around your head by Raymond Tallis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
If you can't protect yourself from a tyrant, how can you protect your family? And how does a proud man live with the knowledge that he can't? Reminiscent in part of "Stasiland" and "The Bookseller of Kabul", this is the story of one family's struggle to survive the iniquities of Saddam Hussein's savage ...Show more
The Mystery of Being Human - God, Freedom and the NHS by Raymond Tallis
$29.95 NZD
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