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Dealings with Dictators: A Ceo's Guide to Defending Democracy - Paperback

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by Mathias D?pfner (Author)Global business leader Mathias D?pfner offers a "compelling" (Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist for Financial Times) and revolutionary road map to reshape global trade, strengthen our democracy, and safeguard our freedoms. Freedom is on the decline around the world. Autocrats in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are undermining our open societies, human rights, and the rule of law. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call for the West, but th...

What Kind of Creatures Are We? - Hardcover

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by Noam Chomsky (Author)Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research, to which he has contributed for over half a century. In clear, precise, and nontechnical language, Chomsky elaborates on fifty years ...

The Questions Of King Milinda - Paperback

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by T. W. Rhys Davids (Author)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 domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, r...

Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America - Paperback

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by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Editor)Since the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking connections between our current moment and the tumultuous interwar period in Europe. But others question if these connections really reflect our current political moment or if they are another example of Eurocentrism and American provincialism speaking over a much ...

Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful - Paperback

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by Dean Rickles (Author)Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it meaningful Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints-and death is the ultimate constraint-make our actions meaningful. In Life Is Short, Rickles explains why the fini...

From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank - Paperback

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by Colin Jenkins (Editor)Since its founding in 2013, the Hampton Institute has remained at the forefront of incubating, developing, and advancing revolutionary theory by and for the people's movements. The platform has not only stood the test of time but continually expanded its reach, with outlets from Monthly Review and Truthout to Black Agenda Report and Z Magazine routinely republishing its analysis; as well as the United Nations General Assembly inviting the Institute to contribute a rep...

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life - Hardcover

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by Agnes Callard (Author)Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that "the unexamined life is not worth living," yet take no steps to live examined ones. We know that he was tried, convicted, and executed for "corrupting the youth," but freely assign Socratic dialogues to today's youths, to introd...

Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground - Hardcover

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by Kurt Gray (Author)A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us It's easy to assume that liberals and conservatives have radically different moral foundations. In Outraged, Kurt Gray showcases the latest science to demonstrate that we all have the same moral mind--that everyone's moral judgments stem from feeling threatened or vulnerable to harm....

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism - Paperback

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by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Author)A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity--for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselve...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Haidt (Author)Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition--the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel li...

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...

Shadows of Science: How to Uphold Science, Detect Pseudoscience, and Expose Antiscience in the Age of Disinformation - Hardcover

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by Kendrick Frazier (Author), Richard Dawkins (Foreword by)In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science). Pseudoscience romps in the shadows of science but takes on the guise of science to excite, sell, mislead, and deceive the public. Anti-science denigrates, even denie...

Ecce Homo: How to Become What You Are - Paperback

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Duncan Large (Translator)Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book passes under review all of Nietzsche's previous works so that we, his "posthumous"readers, can finally u...

Think Again: How to Reason and Argue - Paperback

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by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Author)Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced a virulent world where extreme positions dominate. There is much demonization of the other side, very little progress is made, and the end result is further widening of ...

Daily Wisdom: Selections from the Holy Qur'an - Hardcover

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by Abdur Raheem Kidwai (Compiled by)This beautiful presentation of a selection from the Holy Qur'an engages the reader in a moment of daily reflection. Edited for ease of comprehension, English-speaking readers will find this compilation both spiritually enriching and easy to understand. With 365 verses covering the whole year, this is a must for every home.An introduction to the Qur'an and its eternal message for humanity is included, giving the reader an insight into its origin, purpose, an...

Valuations of Nietzsche and His Works - Paperback

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by G. E. Gorfu (Author)It has been a while since I have had the privilege of coming in contact with a book that left me exhilarated and wanting for more. Gorfu, with his uncommon insight and originality delved deep into the recesses of Nietzsche's ailing soul and exposed the person of Nietzsche for what he is, at best a charlatan and anti-philosopher or at worst the ravings of an egotistic masked egomaniac. I believe Nietzsche and his world has been irreparably damaged and debunked by this es...

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by Sian Miles (Editor)Philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist -- Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a great variety of subjects ranging from classical philosophy and poetry, to modern labor, to the language of political discourse. The present anthology offers a generous collection of her work, including essays never before translated into English and many that have long been ou...

Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James - Paperback

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by Marilyn McCord Adams (Author)When confronted by horrendous evil, even the most pious believer may question not only life's worth but also God's power and goodness. A distinguished philosopher and a practicing minister, Marilyn McCord Adams has written a highly original work on a fundamental dilemma of Christian thought--how to reconcile faith in God with the evils that afflict human beings. Adams argues that much of the discussion in analytic philosophy of religion over the last forty year...

Philosophy and the Human Condition: An Anthology - Paperback

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by Brian R. Clack (Author), Tyler Hower (Author)Philosophy and the Human Condition: An Anthology brings together a rich collection of historically arranged readings on the crucial philosophical problems related to the human condition and human nature. Its contents are drawn from a wide range of sources, including the traditional works of Western philosophers from Plato to the present day; relevant extracts from religious texts; and contributions by women, traditions outside of the western phi...

Deconstruction and the Spirit: How Pastors Can Better Understand Deconstruction and How to Approach It from a Pentecostal Perspective - Hardcover

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by Esteban Solís (Author)Deconstructive faith experiences are growing in number throughout global Christianity. Factors like globalization, individualism, education, post-colonial experiences, fundamentalism, connectivity, and others contribute to accelerate this trend and shape the environment of faith communities that find themselves amongst increasingly postmodern tendencies. Many pastors are deciding to ignore the situation by rejecting deconstruction altogether, while others are embracin...

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last - Paperback

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by Stephen Levine (Author)In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?, teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live this way himself for a whole year, and now he shares with us how such immediacy radically changes our view of the world and forces us to examine our priorities. Most of ...

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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author), Patrick Coleman (Editor), Angela Scholar (Author)In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admirati...

Sacred Origins of Profound Things: The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions - Paperback

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by Charles Panati (Author)In this enlightening and entertaining work, Charles Panati explores the origins of hundreds of religious rituals, customs, and practices in many faiths, the reasons for religious holidays and sacred symbols, and the meanings of vestments, sacraments, devotions, and prayers. Its many revelations include: * Why the Star of David became the Jewish counterpart of the Christian cross* What mortal remains of the Buddha are venerated today* How the diamond engagement ring b...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice - Hardcover

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by Shunryu Suzuki (Author), Trudy Dixon (Editor), Huston Smith (Preface by)"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it'...

Deeper Learning with Psychedelics: Philosophical Pathways Through Altered States - Paperback

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by David J. Blacker (Author)In both clinical and informal settings, psychedelics users often report they have undergone something profound and even life-altering. Yet there persists a confounding inability to articulate just what has been imparted. Informed by multidisciplinary emerging research, this book provides an account of the specifically educational aspects of psychedelics and how they can render us ready to learn. Drawing from indigenous peoples worldwide who typically revere these s...

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World - Paperback

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by David Abram (Author)Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider c...

Tao Te Ching: With Over 150 Photographs by Jane English - Paperback

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by Lao Tzu (Author), Gia-Fu Feng (Translator), Jane English (Translator)For nearly two generations, this bestselling translation of the Tao Te Ching has been the standard for those seeking access to the wisdom of Taoist thought. Now Jane English and her long-time editor, Toinette Lippe, have refreshed and revised the translation, so that it more faithfully reflects the Classical Chinese in which it was first written, while taking into account changes in our own language and eliminating any li...

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life - Paperback

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by Theodor Adorno (Author)"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." --Susan Sontag A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.Author BiographyTheodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Fran...

Perspective as Symbolic Form - Paperback

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by Erwin Panofsky (Author), Christopher S. Wood (Translator)Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century. Finally available in English, this unrivaled example of Panofsky's early method places him within broader developments in theories of knowledge and cultural change. Here, drawing on a massive body of l...

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by Sir Isaac Newton (Author), Andrew Motte (Translator)Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles) is considered to be among the finest scientific works ever published. His grand unifying idea of gravitation, with effects extending throughout the solar system, explains by one principle such diverse phenomena as the tides, the precession of the equinoxes, and the irregularities of the moon's motion. Newton's brilliant and revolutionary contributions to science explained ...

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...

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by Jonathan Haber (Author)An insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking--from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey--for teachers, students, and anyone looking to hone their critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential 21st century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given the propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said tha...