Search results for ‘Damon Young’

Filter & Refine

    Cover image for On Getting Off
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    On Getting Off

    Damon Young

    The curious reader’s companion to sex.    

    $24.99

    Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Philosophy in the Garden
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Philosophy in the Garden

    Damon Young

    Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his ‘thought tree’?

    $38.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for The Art of Reading
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    The Art of Reading

    Damon Young

    We are not born readers, we learn to turn words into worlds. But why is fine writing lauded while excellent reading is ignored? In The Art of Reading, philosopher Damon…

    $26.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Distraction
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Distraction

    Damon Young

    This warm and witty book does something wonderful: it brings the great ideas of philosophy into our lives. Young is a bright new voice. John Armstrong, author of Love, Life…

    $79.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Philosophy in the Garden
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Philosophy in the Garden

    Damon Young

    Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing in Chawton, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his Italian Gedankenbaum, ‘thought tree’…

    $26.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

     Read review
    Cover image for My Pop is a Pirate
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    My Pop is a Pirate

    Damon Young

    Some pops scream ‘Huzzah!’ when they dive in dazzling pools. But my pop is a pirate …he yells ‘Aaarrrgghhh!’ and buries jewels. All pops are different. But what if your…

    $24.99

    Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for My Nanna is a Ninja and Other Stories
    CD-Audio
    Add to list Added to list

    My Nanna is a Ninja and Other Stories

    Damon Young, Peter Carnavas

    Introducing an exciting collection of children's stories from award-winning authors Damon Young and Peter Carnavas!

    Get ready to meet some extraordinary family members and embark on thrilling adventures with the…

    $19.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for My Nanna is a Ninja and Other Stories
    Audio disc
    Add to list Added to list

    My Nanna is a Ninja and Other Stories

    Damon Young, Peter Carnavas

    Introducing an exciting collection of children's stories from award-winning authors Damon Young and Peter Carnavas!

    Get ready to meet some extraordinary family members and embark on thrilling adventures with the…

    $14.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Nite-Lite
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Nite-Lite

    Damon Young

    Every child fears what's waiting for them in the dark. But Sidney Greenwell has seen it, and what's worse is that IT has seen him. He's been hiding in the…

    $23.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
    Audio
    Add to list Added to list

    What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

    Young chronicles his efforts to survive the neuroses his country has given him in a debut that’s both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of blackness and a critique…

    $75.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
    Audio
    Add to list Added to list

    What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

    Young chronicles his efforts to survive the neuroses his country has given him in a debut that’s both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of blackness and a critique…

    $85.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Distraction
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Distraction

    Damon Young

    This warm and witty book does something wonderful: it brings the great ideas of philosophy into our lives. Young is a bright new voice. John Armstrong, author of Love, Life…

    $283.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for On Getting Off: sex and philosophy
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    On Getting Off: sex and philosophy

    Damon Young

    Following indie bookseller favorites The Art of Reading and Philosophy in the Garden, hip philosopher Damon Young takes on the paradoxes of sex

    $34.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

    Damon Young

    The co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com presents a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the direct impact of racism on his life, the shifting definition of black male identity, and the ongoing…

    $63.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

    Damon Young

    The co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com presents a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the direct impact of racism on his life, the shifting definition of black male identity, and the ongoing…

    $33.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide To Being Free
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Distraction: A Philosopher’s Guide To Being Free

    Damon Young

    Shows how rewarding patient, sensitive and thoughtful attention to the world can be. This book suggests that the opposite of a life of distraction is one of genuine freedom.

    $47.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for How to Think About Exercise
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    How to Think About Exercise

    Damon Young (University of Melbourne, Australia)

    Originally published: Great Britain: Macmillan, A2014.

    $58.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for An Oration Delivered Before the Wesleyan Academy Alumni Association at Wilbraham, Mass
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    An Oration Delivered Before the Wesleyan Academy Alumni Association at Wilbraham, Mass

    Damon Young Kilgore

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the "public…

    $37.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for An Oration Delivered Before the Wesleyan Academy Alumni Association at Wilbraham, Mass
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    An Oration Delivered Before the Wesleyan Academy Alumni Association at Wilbraham, Mass

    Damon Young Kilgore

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the "public…

    $54.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Philosophy and the Martial Arts: Engagement
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Philosophy and the Martial Arts: Engagement

    This is the first substantial academic book to lay out the philosophical terrain within the study of the martial arts and to explore the significance of this fascinating subject for…

    $83.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for My Brother is a Beast
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    My Brother is a Beast

    Damon Young

    A brilliantly boisterous picture book celebrating brothers everywhere.

    Some brothers tap tambourines as the drummers keep the beat. But my brother is a beast … he pounds pianos with his…

    $24.99

    Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for My Dad is a Dragon
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    My Dad is a Dragon

    Damon Young

    Some dads pull billy carts, painted blue and black. But my dad is a dragon…I sit upon his scaly back!

    $24.99

    Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Philosophy and the Martial Arts: Engagement
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Philosophy and the Martial Arts: Engagement

    This is the first substantial academic book to lay out the philosophical terrain within the study of the martial arts and to explore the significance of this fascinating subject for…

    $325.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for My Nanna is a Ninja
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    My Nanna is a Ninja

    Damon Young

    All nannas are different. But what if your nanna was really different? What if your nanna was a ninja? This fun, poetic picture book portrays the many different guises, faces…

    $24.99

    Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for My Sister is a Superhero
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    My Sister is a Superhero

    Damon Young

    A spectacular picture book celebrating sisters everywhere.

    Some sisters glide on scooters next to lanes of tooting cars. But my sister is a superhero … she races rockets around stars.

    …

    $24.99

    Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for My Mum is a Magician
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    My Mum is a Magician

    Damon Young

    From the award-winning author/illustrator duo Damon Young and Peter Carnavas comes a spellbinding picture book celebrating mums everywhere.

    $24.99

    Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for How to Think About Exercise
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    How to Think About Exercise

    Damon Young,The School of Life

    It can often seem as though existence is split in two: body and mind, flesh and spirit, moving and thinking. Damon Young challenges this idea, revealing how fitness can develop…

    $22.99

    Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

    Damon R. Young

    Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of new forms of sexuality in French and American cinema from the 1950s to the present, showing how cinema transformed narratives of sexuality and…

    $232.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

    Damon R. Young

    Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of new forms of sexuality in French and American cinema from the 1950s to the present, showing how cinema transformed narratives of sexuality and…

    $62.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Martial Arts and Philosophy: Beating and Nothingness
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Martial Arts and Philosophy: Beating and Nothingness

    Martial arts and philosophy have always gone hand in hand, as well as fist in throat. Philosophical argument is closely paralleled with hand-to-hand combat. And all of today’s Asian martial…

    $60.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France

    Judith Butler

    Originally published: 1999. With new foreword.

    $431.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France

    Judith Butler

    Originally published: 1999. With new foreword.

    $140.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life

    William Damon

    Synopsis coming soon…….

    $26.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Young Wolf
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Young Wolf

    Damon Muller

    A young wolf decides to leave the pack, the only home they have ever known. They want to leave so badly, but how will they manage on their own? The…

    $17.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Young Family and a Return to Nature Age 31-34 Poetry Damon Mcgregor
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    Young Family and a Return to Nature Age 31-34 Poetry Damon Mcgregor

    Damon McGregor

    These poems were written as I was a graduate student in Philosophy, and also while returning to nature with newborn children.

    $15.99

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    The Cultural Logic of Contemporary Capitalism

    In 1984 Fredric Jameson wrote that everything in our social life-from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself-can be said to…

    $52.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for The Tourettes Survival Kit: Tools for Young Adults with Tics
    Paperback
    Add to list Added to list

    The Tourettes Survival Kit: Tools for Young Adults with Tics

    Tara Murphy,Damon Millar

    This survival guide for teens with Tourette’s provides the tools you need to survive and thrive at home, school, work and beyond. It includes strategies and behavioural therapy techniques for…

    $31.99

    Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
    Hardback
    Add to list Added to list

    Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling

    Philip Pullman

    A masterful collection of essays on storytelling by Philip Pullman, one of our greatest writers.

    $67.99

    Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

    Cover image for Last Duel, The
    DVD
    Add to list Added to list

    Last Duel, The

    From Twentieth Century Studios and visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott comes The Last Duel, a gripping tale of betrayal and vengeance set against the brutality and female oppression of 14th century…

    $39.95

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Last Duel, The | Blu-ray + UHD
    Blu-ray
    Add to list Added to list

    Last Duel, The | Blu-ray + UHD

    From Twentieth Century Studios and visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott comes The Last Duel, a gripping tale of betrayal and vengeance set against the brutality and female oppression of 14th century…

    $59.95

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

    Cover image for Last Duel, The
    Blu-ray
    Add to list Added to list

    Last Duel, The

    From Twentieth Century Studios and visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott comes The Last Duel, a gripping tale of betrayal and vengeance set against the brutality and female oppression of 14th century…

    $49.95

    Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order