Current Affairs - Philosophy - Politics

	The Pig That Wants to be Eaten - Julian Baggini The Pig That Wants to be Eaten: and 99 other thought experiments by Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments - short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way - and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/herself. Experiments cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and many more.	ZAR 85.00
	The Virtues of the Table - Julian Baggini The Virtues of the Table: How to eat and think by Julian Baggini is a thought provoking exploration of our values and vices. How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual.	ZAR 95.00
	The Grain of the Voice - Roland Barthes The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980 by Roland Barthes could not be a better introduction to his work of Roland Barthes.	ZAR 120.00
	Berkeley - Talia Mae Bettcher Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed by Talia Mae Bettcher is a clear and thorough account of Berkeley's philosophy.	ZAR 130.00
	The Garments of Court and Palace - Phillip Bobbitt The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the world that he made by Phillip Bobbitt is a fascinating history and commentary by the man Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time." The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli is widely regarded as the single most influential book on po	ZAR 110.00
	Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington (CD) - Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes (Recorded Books Unabridged) (CD) by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein two excellent philosopher-comedians return just in time to save us from the double-speak, flim-flam, and alternate reality of politics in America.	ZAR 90.00
	Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa - Audrey R. Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? by Audrey R. Chapman & Hugo Van Der Merwe provides a comprehensive evaluation of the TRC process and its impact on South African society.	ZAR 120.00
	Cocaine Confidential - Wensley Clarkson Cocaine Confidential: True stories behind the world's most notorious narcotic by Wensley Clarkson tells the truth about this scourge. Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network?	ZAR 85.00
	The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical.	ZAR 95.00
	The News - Alain de Botton The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton is a witty and insightful exploration of our twenty-first century obsession with media. Why do we keep checking the news? Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us.	ZAR 130.00
	Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking - Daniel C Dennett Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett offers seventy-seven of Dennett's most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders" meant to guide you through some of life s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will.	ZAR 160.00
	A Century of Sundays - Nadine Dreyer A Century of Sundays: 100 Years of Breaking News in the Sunday Times 1906-2006 edited by Nadine Dreyer is a collection of articles that have appeared in the Sunday Times for over a hundred years.	ZAR 135.00
	50 big Ideas You Really need to Know - Ben Dupre 50 big Ideas You Really need to Know by Ben Dupre is a concise, accessible and popular guide to the central tenets of Western thought. Every important principle of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences is profiled in a series of short illustrated essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features.	ZAR 125.00
	The Human Rights Handbook - Kathryn English and Adam Stapleton The Human Rights Handbook: A Practical Guide To Monitoring Human Rights by Kathryn English and Adam Stapleton is intended to help people know their rights and how to claim and defend them.	ZAR 75.00
	Pink Sari Revolution - Amana Fontanella-Khan Pink Sari Revolution: A tale of women and power in the badlands of India by Amana Fontanella-Khan delivers a riveting portrait of women grabbing fate with their own hands - and winning back their lives.	ZAR 75.00
	Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.	ZAR 85.00
	When I am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know She is Not Playing with Me? - Saul Frampton When I am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know She is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life by Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, Michel de Montaigne, who gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his father, h	ZAR 130.00
	Distrust That Particular Flavor - William Gibson Distrust That Particular Flavor: Encounters with a future that's already here by William Gibson brings together for the first time his writings on a wide variety of contemporary subjects: the differing cultures of Japan and Singapore; music and the movies; what's wrong with the internet; the interactive relationship between writers and readers; and many others.	ZAR 110.00
	S A Politics Unspun - Stephen Grootes S A Politics Unspun by Stephen Grootes cuts through the incomprehensible political spin and media coverage out there to provide an accessible, attractive, easy-to-read road map to South African politics.	ZAR 90.00
	Monty Python and Philosophy - Gary L Hardcastle and George A Reisch Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think! edited by Gary L Hardcastle and George A Reisch takes fifteen experts in topics like mythology, Buddhism, feminism, logic, ethics, the philosophy of science and brings their expertise to bear on Python movies such as Monty Python’s Life of Brian and Flying Circus mainstays such as the Argument Clinic, the Dead Parrot Sketch, and, o	ZAR 155.00
	Mortality - Christopher Hitchens Mortality by Christopher Hitchens is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.	ZAR 110.00
	Spitstyd - Wilhelm Jordaan Spitstyd: Uitgesoekte rubrieke deur Wilhelm Jordaan is die versamelde koerantrubrieke wat in Beeld en Die Burger verskyn het.	ZAR 90.00
	The Internet is not the Answer - Andrew Keen The Internet is not the Answer by Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives.	ZAR 150.00
	World Order - Henry Kissinger World Order by Henry Kissinger makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft.	ZAR 230.00
	What? - Mark Kurlansky What? Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History? by Mark Kurlansky is a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy - indeed, all of civilization - to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history?	ZAR 85.00