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  • The Good Book

    A Humanist Bible

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, thebreadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity toconceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that isexactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible,drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in bothWestern and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Age of Genius

    The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Towards the Light

    The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms of government and making possible the abolition of slavery, the enfranchisement of women, and the idea ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Liberty in the Age of Terror

    A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater 'security''A rollicking defence of Freedom and Enlightenment in the style of Tom Paine or William Godwin' Spectator'The even-handed tone of philosophy professor AC Grayling's latest book does not lessen the intensity of its polemical content ... Grayling underlines the seriousness ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • To Set Prometheus Free

    Essays on Religion, Reason and Humanity

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    In 2007 Anthony Grayling wrote Against All Gods, a collection of polemical essays attacking religion. Now in To Set Prometheus Free he develops those themes more comprehensively, unpicking the claims and arguments of religious apologists, summarising the views of his fellow secularist (Bertrand Russell in particular detailing the controversy over 'Intelligent Design' and outlining his personal, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Metaphysics of Experience

    Truth, Enquiry and the Concept of Reality

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    AC Grayling presents a work of analytic philosophy arguing that considerations of natural language ontology tell us much about how to understand truth, reference and concepts of reality.In this detailed examination of how philosophers currently think about the 'ultimate reality', Grayling builds on three decades of thinking about metaphysical and semantic questions. Covering a wide range of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Challenge of Things

    Thinking Through Troubled Times

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion.The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Thinking of Answers

    Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    Bloomsbury presents Thinking of Answers by A C Grayling, read by Gordon GriffinThought-provoking short essays by Britain's leading public philosopher that show us how to discover our own answers to life's challenges‘While most philosophy is written in abstruse and ponderous prose, Grayling's is a model of clarity and elegance' The Times'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    The God Argument

    The Case Against Religion and for Humanism

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    Bloomsbury presents The God Argument by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin.A powerful argument for humanism as an alternative to organized religion, by New York Times bestselling author A.C. Grayling, one of the world's leading public intellectuals.What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--all of them--right across the range of reasons and motives that people have ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    The Challenge of Things

    Thinking Through Troubled Times

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Challenge of Things by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon GriffinA. C. Grayling’s lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion.The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling’s recent writings on the world ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Against All Gods

    Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Do religions have an inherent right to be respected? Is atheism itself a form of religion, and can there be such a thing as a 'fundamentalist atheist'? Are we witnessing a global revival in religious zeal, or do the signs point instead to religion's ultimate decline?In a series of bold, unsparing polemics, A.C. Grayling tackles these questions head on, exposing the dangerous unreason he sees at ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Among the Dead Cities

    Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but it is an issue that remains relevant today with ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD