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10 Secret Steps to the Native American Connection to the Natural World - Paperback

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by Dawn Moneyhan (Author)It's not a secret that Native American people share a special relationship with our planet. But what is that connection and how can the rest of the world's population share it?Tribal citizen, teacher, and knowledge keeper Dawn Moneyhan, of the Odaawa Nation, takes you on a journey using 10 easy steps to reconnect with the natural world from an indigenous perspective. On this journey you'll be reintroduced to nature, meeting relatives you may be unaware are relatives....

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by Thomas E. Wartenberg (Editor)Released in 1999, Fight Club is David Fincher's popular adaption of Chuck Palahniuk's cult novel, and one of the most philosophically rich films of recent years. This is the first book to explore the varied philosophical aspects of the film. Beginning with an introduction by the editor that places the film and essays in context, each chapter explores a central theme of Fight Club from a philosophical perspective. Topics discussed include: Fight Club, Plato'...

The Complete Guide to Labyrinths: Tapping the Sacred Spiral for Power, Protection, Transformation, and Healing - Paperback

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by Cassandra Eason (Author)A universal symbol of transformation, the labyrinth was created in ancient times to represent humankind's search for the core of divinity. Unlike a maze, which may have a confusion of tracks leading in all directions, a labyrinth has a single, winding pathway that spirals inward to the center. In The Complete Guide to Labyrinths, renowned British psychic and folklorist Cassandra Eason explores the mystery of this sacred symbol and explains how to harness its power ...

Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide - Paperback

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by Jonardon Ganeri (Author)Where do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist tradition holds that we are self-illuminating beings casting light onto a world of shadows. And a disquieting set of dissenters has claimed that inwardness is merely an illusion--or, worse, a deceit. Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the worl...

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by Anil Gomes (Author)We are self-conscious creatures thrown into a world which is not of our making. What is the connection between being self-conscious and being related to an objective world? Descartes and Kant, in different ways and with different emphases, argued that self-conscious subjects such as us must be related to an objective world. Philosophers in the twentieth century were less ambitious: self-conscious subjects must only think or experience the world as objective. The Practica...

O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology - Paperback

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by Matt Hern (Author), Am Johal (Author)Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the sta...

The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents - Paperback

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by William Martin (Author)Classic Taoist wisdom applied to the world of parenting, guiding mothers and fathers to meaningful conversations and relationships with their children. William C. Martin has freshly reinterpreted the Tao Te Ching to speak directly and clearly to the most difficult of modern tasks -- parenting. With its combination of free verse and judicious advice, The Parent's Tao Te Ching addresses the great themes that permeate the Tao and that support loving parent- child relat...

How Basketball Can Save the World: 13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible - Hardcover

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by David Hollander (Author)A thought-provoking exploration of how basketball--and the values rooted in the game--can solve today's most pressing issues, from the professor behind the popular New York University course NBA and WNBA superstars, Hall of Fame players, coaches, and leading cultural figures have all dropped by New York University Professor David Hollander's course "How Basketball Can Save the World" course to debate and give insights on how the underlying principles of the game can...

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by Piemonte Nicole (Author), Shawn Abreu (Author)An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory toward medical interventions that may actu...

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror - Paperback

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by Thomas Ligotti (Author)In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world....

Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words - Paperback

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by David Whyte (Author)With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life. Beginning with Alone and closing with Work, each chapter is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on the inevitable vicissitudes of life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling be...

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by Guy Debord (Author)The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept...

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by Slavoj Zizek (Author)To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?In thir...

Tantra: La Canci?n de Tilopa Mahamudra - Paperback

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by Dhamma Buddha (Author)Un best-seller de todos los tiempos, que parte del canto sagrado del maestro tibetano Tilopa para explicar en un lenguaje sencillo las percepciones m?sticas ocultas en el Tantra. Un cl?sico que explica el Tantra como m?todo de expansi?n de la conciencia humana. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 24, 2024

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Paperback

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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author), Donna J. Haraway (Introduction by), Lee Bul (Illustrator)In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the pr...

Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga - Hardcover

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by Julius Evola (Author)With unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world. As a gadfly, Evola spares no one and nothing in his survey of what we have lost and where we are headed. At turns prophetic and provocative, Revolt against the Modern World outlines a profound metaphysics of history and demonstrates how and why we have lost contact with the...

Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism - Paperback

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by Thomas Nail (Author)Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. As this book argues, every era since Marx's death has reinvented him to fit its needs. There is not one Marx forever and fo...

On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays - Paperback

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by Iris Marion Young (Author)Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays...

Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds - Hardcover

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by Eva Feder Kittay (Author)Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in and through our bodies, whether they are fully abled or disabled. Ou...

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - Paperback

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by Sarah Bakewell (Author)Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly PossibleHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roamin...

The Constitution of the United States, Smithsonian Edition - Hardcover

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by Founding Fathers (Author), Harry R. Rubenstein (Foreword by)This striking edition contains the foundational document of the United State's governance. This durable and portable book will help you navigate the latest conversations about the supreme law of the land. With a sleek and dignified design, its features make it the perfect keepsake: Bound in faux-leatherFoil-stamped in goldSturdy, quality hardcover This edition stands out in the market with an illuminating new introduction from Ha...

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture - Hardcover

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by Jennifer T. Roberts (Author)A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common ...

Meditations: The Philosophy Classic - Hardcover

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by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Tom Butler-Bowdon (Editor), Donald Robertson (Introduction by)A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he was the most powerful and influential man in the Western world at the time. Marcus was one of the leaders of Stoicism, a philosophy of personal ethics w...

The Art of War: The Definitive Translation of the Linyi Text - Paperback

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by Sun-Tzu (Author) The landmark translation, based on the "Linyi text" that predates all previous versions by 1,000 years."There is no doubt that J. H. Huang's new translation of Sun-tzu will be valuable to scholars of military art for many years to come. . . . An important work." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf"The Linyi verion of Sun-tzu provides a fresh new interpretation of Sun-tzu's classic works. As the oldest version yet discovered, it lays strong claim to the closet adherence of Sun...

Freedom: The End of the Human Condition - Paperback

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by Jeremy Griffith (Author)The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we re entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our good and evil -afflicted human condition. WELL, ASTONISHING AS IT IS, THIS BOOK BY AUSTRALIAN BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH PRESENTS THE 11TH HOUR BREAKTHROUGH BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION...

The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day - Hardcover

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by Ichiro Kishimi (Author), Fumitake Koga (Author)In this follow-up to the international phenomenon The Courage to Be Disliked, discover how to reconnect with your true self, experience true happiness, and live the life you want. What if one simple choice could unlock your destiny? Already a major Japanese bestseller, this eye-opening and accessible follow-up to the "compelling" (Marc Andreessen) international phenomenon The Courage to be Disliked shares the powerful teachings of Alfred Ad...

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by William Macaskill (Author)In this instant New York Times bestseller, a renowned philosopher puts forth the case for longtermism The fate of the world - and the future - is in our hands. Now with a new foreword, What We Owe the Future argues for longtermism: that positively influencing the distant future is our time's key moral priority. It's not enough to reverse climate change or avert a pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral p...

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by Michael L. Maddox (Author)The startling, true story of an earnest seeker, who wholeheartedly explored the hippie and peace movements, the drug culture, Transcendental Meditation, and the unseen, spiritual realm. The author pursued every lead in his quest to discover true inner peace and love. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9.16 x 6.16 IN Publication Date: October 25, 2002

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity - Paperback

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by Nicklas Brendborg (Author)This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality-and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern humans living longer today than ever before, the public's understanding...

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by Daniel C. Dennett (Author)Daniel Dennett's "brilliant" exploration of human consciousness -- named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times -- is a masterpiece beloved by both scientific experts and general readers (New York Times Book Review). Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of informa...

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes - Paperback

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by Thomas Cathcart (Author), Daniel Klein (Author)This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school.Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors--and born vaudevillians--Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the ...

A World of Ideas: A Dictionary of Important Theories, Concepts, Beliefs, and Thinkers - Paperback

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by Chris Rohmann (Author)THE THINKERS, THE THOUGHTS, AND THE THEORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. With A World of Ideas, you can get to the bottom of the big bang theory; find out where Freud's ideas were coming from, and where Einstein's might take us; demystify surrealism and structuralism, communism and capitalism. Prepared with the assistance of an academic board of leading scholars, this invaluable reference includes - Hundreds of entries, alphabetically arranged...