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Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty - 30th Anniversary Edition - Hardcover

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by Anne Herbert (Editor), Margaret Paloma Pavel (Editor), Mayumi Oda (Editor)"This exquisite book offers guidance to us all." -- Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing "we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves," this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea...

Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition - Paperback

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by Christopher D. Wallis (Author)This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices. Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination, speculation, and more than a little misinformation about this spiritual movement. Now, for the first time in the English language, Tantra Illuminated presents an accessible introduction to this sacred tradition that began...

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Paperback

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by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author)"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis. In proclaiming philosophy as a matter of logic rather than of metaphysics,...

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist - Paperback

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by Nneka D. Dennie (Editor)This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America. Mary Ann Shadd Cary includes letters, newspaper articles, organizational records, and never-before-published handwritten notes and essay drafts that illustrate how Shadd Cary participated in major Africana philosophical debates during the nineteenth century. Raci...

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by Jean-Francois Marmion (Editor), Liesl Schillinger (Translator)"We need books like this one." --Steven Pinker At last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James, and Ryan Holiday. And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognize yourselves... Stupidity is all aroun...

Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change - Paperback

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by John Briggs (Author), F. David Peat (Author)If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed toward chaos, science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing In this eye-opening book, John Briggs and F. David Peat reveal sevenenlightening lessons for embracing the chaos of daily life.Be Creative: engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamicallyUse Butterfly Power: let chaos grow local efforts into global resultsGo Wit...

The Imagination Muscle: Where Good Ideas Come from (and How to Have More of Them) - Paperback

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by Albert Read (Author)In this insightful and life-affirming book, Albert Read puts the imagination back at the forefront of our lives as a "muscle" that is boundless in its potential, infinitely rewarding, and central to human achievement. This beautifully written book explores one subject, imagination, through the lens of history and memoir, with some prescriptive aspects to it as well. The author posits that imagination, while elusive, is not just for artists and creatives, it is a muscle...

The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation - Hardcover

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by Moses Maimonides (Author), Lenn E. Goodman (Translator), Phillip I. Lieberman (Translator)A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science, logic and revelation. The author, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides or as Rambam, was...

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by Epictetus (Author)The Greek philosopher Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 CE in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. While still a slave, Epictetus was brought to Rome and sent by his master Epaphroditus to study under the Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus. Epictetus was eventually freed from slavery, although the exact date is unknown. Afterwards he turned to teaching, and established an influential school of Stoic philosophy. His main concerns were with personal freed...

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by Mariana Alessandri (Author)Author BiographyMariana Alessandri es profesora asociada de Filosof?a en la Universidad de Texas Valle del R?o Grande, la primera universidad biling?e de Estados Unidos. Ha fundado, junto con su pareja, RGV PUEDE, una organizaci?n sin fines de lucro cuya misi?n es promover la educaci?n biling?e en las escuelas p?blicas del sur de Texas. Viven en la frontera con sus dos hijos. M?s informaci?n en marianaalessandri.com. Number of Pages: 304 Publication Date: January...

Life of the Mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing - Paperback

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), Mary McCarthy (Author)The most intriguing...and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker.This fascinating book investigates thought itself as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from Arendt's previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this is an exploration of the mind's activities she conside...

Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path - Hardcover

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by Dalai Lama (Author), Thubten Chodron (Author)The final volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes us to the uncommon practices and realizations of Vajrayana to the full awakening of a buddha. His Holiness the Dalai Lama skillfully illuminates the unique qualities of Vajrayana, as practiced in Tibet, and the method to eradicate the subtlest obscurations preventing the full awakening of a buddha. Speaking to newcomers and advanced students alike, he e...

Breaking Open the Creeds: What Can They Mean for Christians Today? - Paperback

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by Richard W. Kropf (Author)Over the past two centuries our understanding of the universe, of biology, of human nature, and of the sacred scriptures themselves has undergone a virtual revolution. How, then, can these creeds, couched in the concepts and language of a bygone age, still make sense to contemporary Christians? In this book of sixteen short chapters, the author not only gives the historical background of each statement--especially noting the development or refinement of the basic i...

History Of Marin County, California: Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, And Climatography (1880) - Paperback

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by J. P. Munro-Fraser (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 588 Dimensions: 1.19 x 9.25 x...

The Cosmic Consciousness Of Walt Whitman - Paperback

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by Richard Maurice Bucke (Author)""The Cosmic Consciousness of Walt Whitman"" is a philosophical work written by Richard Maurice Bucke, originally published in 1901. The book explores the life and works of the renowned American poet Walt Whitman, delving into his unique perspective on the universe and his profound spiritual experiences. Bucke argues that Whitman achieved a state of cosmic consciousness, a heightened awareness and understanding of the interconnectedness of all things in the un...

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by Edwin Mares (Author)This Element looks at two projects that relate logic and information: the project of using logic to integrate, manipulate and interpret information and the proect of using the notion of information to provide interpretations of logical systems. The Element defines 'information' in a manner that includes misinformation and disinformation and uses this general concept of information to provide an interpretation of various paraconsistent and relevant logics. It also integr...

Aesthetic Amalgams and Political Pursuits: Intertextuality in Music Videos - Hardcover

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by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (Editor), Agata Handley (Editor), Tomasz Fisiak (Editor)This open access book illustrates how intertextuality in music videos can be used to create new aesthetic patterns and develop a political agenda.In an age when most people are immersed in popular culture, music videos often bridge the gap between readily accessible and more demanding artistic forms. Music videos can sensitize the audience to various eminent themes, motifs, and artistic conventions by means of trans...

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by Abelard Podgorski (Author)We often care not only about what happens to us, but when it happens to us. We prefer that good experiences happen sooner, rather than later, and that our suffering lies in our past, rather than our future. Common sense suggests that some ways of caring about time are rational, and others are not, but it is surprisingly challenging to provide justifying explanations for these tendencies. This Element is an opinionated, non-technical guided tour through the main ph...

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn - Hardcover

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by Madeleine Chalmers (Author)French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary 'nonhuman turn' in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the modern and contemporary secular lexicon of agency, virtuality, and affect, this book exp...

Stoic Wisdom: Quotes, Affirmation, and Inspiration for a Well-Lived Life - Hardcover

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by Editors of Chartwell Books (Author)Reflect on timeless wisdom that's as meaningful today as it was thousands of years ago. "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." This advice from Roman philosopher Epictetus rings true in our modern world, providing a stalwart pillar of guidance in a complex world. Stoic Wisdom offers the insight of the Stoic philosophers in a gorgeously designed volume that encourages reflection. In this heirloom-quality book, you'll find: ...

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind: Volume 4 - Hardcover

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by Uriah Kriegel (Editor)Author BiographyUriah Kriegel, Rice University Uriah Kriegel is Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. He is the author of Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory (OUP, 2009), The Sources of Intentionality (OUP, 2011), The Varieties of Consciousness (OUP, 2015), and Brentano's Philosophical System: Mind, Being, Value (OUP, 2018). Number of Pages: 560 Dimensions: 1.51 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN Publication Date: December 17, 2024

Successful Self-talk: A short guide on how to talk yourself into the successful life you desire. - Paperback

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by J. B. Waters (Author), J. B. Waters J. B. Waters (Editor)"Successful Self-talk" takes talking to yourself to a whole other level. This book breaks down the good, bad, and ugly of how the words you tell yourself play a major role in the life you have. The author describes in detail how our emotions, environment, and perspective influence the way we talk to ourselves on a daily. This short guide gives the reader a space to write down their internal dialogue while being able to reflect on wha...

You Can't Stop Love: Restoring the World to Sanity One Person at a Time - Paperback

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by John Fast (Author)Can we continue as we have, or must we change?Einstein said that repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. In John Fast's world, the two things which stand as shining examples of insanity are addiction and war.After spending years in warzones and after over thirty years as a recovering alcoholic, John has come to see the similarities between the stories told by our political leaders as they rationalise and just...

Spinoza: Reason, Religion, Politics: The Relation Between the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus - Hardcover

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by Daniel Garber (Author), Mogens L?rke (Author), Pierre-Fran?ois Moreau (Author)At his death, Spinoza left two major works, very different from one another. The first is the Ethics, rigorously set out in geometrical terms, with definitions, axioms, and theorems. In the Ethics, Spinoza takes the reader down the path of reason to an ultimate beatitude, a rational salvation, a kind of peace of mind attained through the true knowledge of God, oneself, and one's place in the world. The other is o...

Space, Philosophy and Ethics - Hardcover

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by William H. U. Anderson (Editor)Space is infinitely interesting! Space has both scientific and cultural currency because it has captured the imagination of human beings from ancient times until today. What seemed like science fiction centuries and only decades ago, is now science fact. Technological developments present and on the cusp are putting more and more of space into our hands. That is both exciting and frightening at the same time (think Lovecraft)! This book attempts to speak to t...

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by Matthew Sims (Author) Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 16, 2025

Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence - Hardcover

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by Neil Sinhababu (Author) Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 16, 2025

The Theosophisutra: Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Nikos Mentzelopoulos (Author)A continuation of The Theosophisutra, this is the journal of a spiritual but not religious theologian; a mystic steeped in theosophy, distilled into Sutras, such as: Spacetime and matter are Self-impositions imposed for the sake of making existence invaluable through the quality of being broken into finite fragments of endless variance and perspective of being that end relative to themselves, to the self, as infinite facets of an eternal, indestructible Self. S...

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by Brian Seth Hurst (Author) Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2024

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by Lewis Mumford (Author), Lewis Mumford (Preface by)Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. Number of Pages: 342 Dimensions: 0.87 x 7.92 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: April 19, 1960

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by Marijana Vujosevic (Author)This Element considers Kant's conception of self-control and the role it plays in his moral philosophy. It offers a detailed interpretation of the different terms used by Kant to explain the phenomenon of moral self-control, such as 'autocracy' and 'inner freedom'. Following Kant's own suggestions, the proposed reading examines the Kantian capacity for self-control as an ability to 'abstract from' various sensible impressions by looking beyond their influence on ...

de la Vida Feliz / On the Happy Life: de Vita Beata - Paperback

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by S?neca (Author)Un imprescindible del pensamiento estoico, la corriente filos?fica para la vida moderna y la tranquilidad del esp?ritu. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los dem?s. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revoluci?n. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambi?n las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensador...