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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'...

Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction - Paperback

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by Gary Rogowski (Author)"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters)." --Nick Offerman In an era when there are countless competing claims on one's attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the answer is in the act of creative work itself. The discipline of working with one's hands to create unnecessarily beautiful things shap...

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 ...

First Awakening - A Spiritual Memoir - Paperback

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by John Roger Barrie (Author)In this true story, a teen overturns his car on Sunset Boulevard in front of a statue of Jesus. Three months later, his life is forever changed. One young man's mystical journey in the autumn of 1974 turned his world upside down. In this riveting narrative, John Roger Barrie recounts a ninety-day transformational spiritual experience. His fascinating quest, filled with inner discoveries, insights, and revelations, unfolds as he searches for his soul. Fifty years a...

El H?roe: The Valiant Hero (1637) - Paperback

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by Baltasar Graci?n (Author), M. San Pedro (Translator)El H?roe: The Valiant Hero (1637) stands as a timeless masterpiece of didactic prose, meticulously crafted to guide readers on the path to becoming a Valiant Hero and living a successful and virtuous life. Within its pages, "El Padre" Baltasar Graci?n explores the essential qualities that define the ideal man, emphasizing the significance of ingenuity, prudence, and self-mastery in overcoming life's challenges.As the first of Graci?n's se...

El H?roe: The Valiant Hero (1637) - Hardcover

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by Baltasar Graci?n (Author), M. San Pedro (Author)El H?roe: The Valiant Hero (1637) stands as a timeless masterpiece of didactic prose, meticulously crafted to guide readers on the path to becoming a Valiant Hero and living a successful and virtuous life. Within its pages, "El Padre" Baltasar Graci?n explores the essential qualities that define the ideal man, emphasizing the significance of ingenuity, prudence, and self-mastery in overcoming life's challenges.As the first of Graci?n's seven ...

Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Self-Compassion Integrating Internal Family Systems and Buddhist Meditation - Paperback

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by Ralph de la Rosa (Author), Richard Schwartz (Foreword by)Discover a path of post-traumatic growth, spiritual insight, and deep compassion for the most challenging parts of yourself. Ralph De La Rosa integrates Richard Schwartz's revolutionary Internal Family Systems (IFS) model with Buddhist meditation practice to offer a radically different healing paradigm. If you're among those who've tried therapy and meditation but wonder why you still suffer repetitive patterns and emotions, Outshini...

Experiencing God Day by Day: 365 Daily Devotional - Hardcover

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by Henry T. Blackaby (Author), Richard Blackaby (Author)Featuring a new cover design and padded hardcover format, Gold Medallion Award winner Experiencing God Day By Day is based on Henry Blackaby's multi-million selling Experiencing God book and Bible study. Brimming with insight and seasoned with grace, this 365-day devotional reader helps to start a daily routine by focusing the mind on the divine presence in each life. Whether selected as a thoughtful gift or as a personal resource, this ...

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future - Paperback

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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author), Marion Faber (Editor), Marion Faber (Translator)Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. A superb new translation by Marion Faber, this highly annotated edition is complemented by a lucid introduction by ...

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities - Hardcover

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by Luciano Floridi (Author)The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has two goals. The first goal is meta-theoretical and is fulfilled by Part One, which comprises the first three chapters: an interpretation of the past (Chapter 1), the present (Chapter 2), and the future of AI (Chapter 3). Part One develops the thesis that AI is an unprecedented divorce between agency and intelligence. On this basis, Part Two investigates the consequences of such a divorce, developing the thesis that AI as a ne...

The Book of Five Rings: Deluxe Slipcase Edition - Hardcover

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by Miyamoto Musashi (Author), Victor Harris (Translator)'When you attain the Way of strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.' -Miyamoto Musashi This deluxe silkbound slipcase edition presents The Book of Five Rings, a classic Japanese text written by undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In it, he records his "true principles" which guarantee victory in martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on religion or theory, Musashi based his writings on his own experience...

On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication - Paperback

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), David Bromwich (Introduction by)More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich "No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function? Fift...

When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought - Paperback

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by Jim Holt (Author)From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who've tried to en...

The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music - Paperback

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Shaun Whiteside (Translator), Michael Tanner (Editor)The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent ...

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by Thich Nhat Hanh (Author), Jason Deantonis (Illustrator)The latest book in the bestselling How To series: simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh give us inspiration and tools for transforming our suffering and cultivating happiness In inspiring passages and simple exercises, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us what he calls "the art of suffering." He gives us teachings and tools for transforming suffering as well as ways to touch moments of happiness and smile even w...

The Short Path to Enlightenment: Instructions for Immediate Awakening - Paperback

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by Paul Brunton (Author)"Paul Brunton gives voice to the profound teachings of immediate spiritual awakening that have the power to short circuit the seeker in us and reveal the true nature of reality here and now." --Adyashanti People who enjoy Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now, A New Earth), Michael A. Singer (The Untethered Soul), or Adyashanti (Emptiness Dancing) will enjoy and benefit greatly from The Short Path to Enlightenment. These accessible teachings distill the essence of Advaita Ve...

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by Robert Dobbin (Translator), C. D. N. Costa (Translator), Martin Hammond (Translator)A selection of writings from some of the most iconic Stoics to guide and inspire a more mindful perspective How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisdom on how to face life's adversities and live well in the world. Throughout history, some books hav...

Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness - Hardcover

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by George Saunders (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million times. Why? Because Saunders's words tap into...

That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic - Paperback

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by Musonius Rufus (Author), Cora E. Lutz (Editor), Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Introduction by)Perennial wisdom from one of history's most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers "He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well--bravely, boldly, patiently--to what life threw at us. That's what we should be doing now."--Ryan Holiday, Reading List email The Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus was one of the most influential teachers of his era, imperial Rome, and his message still resonat...

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 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...

Without Opposite: A Philosophical Adventure - Paperback

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by Marcel Eschauzier (Author)Her beauty and her brother's crime put everyone to the test: Can Shatarupa learn to forgive? Can the philosophers rein their passions before they spiral out of control? Are you ready to awaken and unlock Tao? This contemporary psychological mystery echoes Indian legend and criticizes the Western obsession with reality. Shatarupa's mythical hundred forms reflect her beauty but also the pain of family secrets and unfulfilled dreams. Dramatic family events compel he...

Fatal Strategies, New Edition - Paperback

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by Jean Baudrillard (Author), Dominic Pettman (Introduction by)An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the postmodern world it endeavored to describe. Arguing against the predetermined outcomes of dialectical thought with his renowned...

Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It - Hardcover

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by Christof Koch (Author)"Deeply personal and infinitely digestible, Then I Am Myself the World is a remarkable must-read for anyone interested in knowing their mind."―Judson Brewer MD, PhD, New York Times-bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety The world's leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness does--cause change in the world--we can understand its origins and its future  In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we ...

Meditations: The Annotated Edition - Paperback

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by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Robin Waterfield (Editor), Robin Waterfield (Translator)This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor. As featured on the Today Show Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome--and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generatio...

Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Beaney (Author)Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the Second World War, it developed further in North America, in the rest of Europe, and is now growing in influence as the dominant philosophical tradition right across the world, from Latin America to East Asia. In this Very...

Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Barbara Gail Montero (Author)Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction probes some of the great philosophical questions about the mind: What is the relationship between mind and matter? Can science unravel the mystery of consciousness? How can our thoughts represent things in the world? Are computers genuinely intelligent? In the book, Barbara Gail Montero highlights key thought experiments used by philosophers to explore the nature of mind and how mind and body relate to each other (t...

The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity - Hardcover

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by Nancy Cartwright (Author), Jeremy Hardie (Author), Eleonora Montuschi (Author)Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity--are insufficient for the job. Here we propose a new model of science which places its products front and centre...

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by Aristotle (Author), W. Rhys Roberts (Translator)One of the seminal works of Western philosophy, Aristotle's Rhetoric vastly influenced all subsequent thought on the subject -- philosophical, political, and literary. Focusing on the use of language as both a vehicle and a tool to shape persuasive argument, Aristotle delineates with remarkable insight both practical and aesthetic elements and their proper combination in an effective presentation, oral or written. He also emphasizes the role ...

Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges - Hardcover

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by Sanford C. Goldberg (Author)In the course of conversation, we exert implicit pressures on both ourselves and others. These forms of conversational pressure are many and far from uniform, so much so that it is unclear whether they constitute a single cohesive class. In this book Sanford C. Goldberg explores the source, nature, and scope of the normative expectations we have of one another as we engage in conversation that are generated by the performance of speech acts themselves. In doing ...

Plato: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Julia Annas (Author)This lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. It discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. It also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude towards women, and towards homosexual love. It explores Plato...