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Report copyright infringementby George Oliver (Author), Darrell Jordan (Compiled by), Yuka Jordan (Executive Producer)One of the most distinguished and learned of English freemasons, Rev. George Oliver D.D. is remembered as a laborious antiquary and author on both masonic and ecclesiastical themes. We respect the insights and wisdom of George Oliver. This book is created with a special hand-drawn portrait of him, compilation of George Oliver's less well known, but noteworthy Masonic Writings ...

Fr. Spitzer's Universe: Exploring Life's Big Questions - Paperback

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by Robert Spitzer S. J. Ph. D. (Author)Many people rely on Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., for his expertise on explaining the relationship between science, faith, and reason. Finally, at your fingertips, are his answers to select questions that viewers asked on his immensely popular television show, Fr. Spitzer's Universe, to help you understand and share life's greatest mysteries.A priest and philosopher of science, Fr. Spitzer offers evidence and proofs for common queries, such as: Is there r...

The Power of Mindfulness and AI: A Comprehensive Guide to Integrating Consciousness and Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Cedric B. Howard (Author)The Power of Mindfulness and AIIn The Power of Mindfulness and AI, Dr. Cedric B. Howard explores the critical intersection of artificial intelligence, ethical mindfulness, and human values. As AI continues to reshape industries, the need for compassionate, fair, and human-centered technology has never been greater.This insightful book is a must-read for educators, technologists, policymakers, and business leaders seeking to integrate AI...

England and the Salt Trade in the Later Middle Ages

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Bridbury (Created by)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 importa...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography - Paperback

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by Roland Barthes (Author), Richard Howard (Translator)Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death a...

Grief: A Philosophical Guide - Paperback

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by Michael Cholbi (Author)An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief--and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us--as universal as it is painful--is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights ab...

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by Michel de Montaigne (Author), M. A. Screech (Translator), M. A. Screech (Editor)A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original e...

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Wang (Author)The Kintsugi Way of Embracing the Journey of Healing is a reflective and inspiring guide that explores how we can transform pain into purpose and setbacks into growth. Blending Eastern philosophy with modern psychological insight, it challenges the notion that time alone heals all wounds. Instead, it offers a compassionate and intentional path toward integration, self-compassion, and renewal. Drawing from the wisdom of wabi-sabi-the appre...

Chasing the Green Dragon: French Occult Conspiracy, Nazi Mysticism, and Gaston de Mengel's Journey to the East

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Report copyright infringementby Ike Vil (Author)In 1937, a British-Belgian occultist arrived in Berlin to brief Heinrich Himmler on a secret society called the Green Dragon. Tracing his unbelievable claims, Chasing the Green Dragon dives into the interwar Parisian occult underground, where intelligence operators and esotericists mingled in the temple of the Polaires, Masonic lodges, and Maria de Naglowska's Luciferian salons, sometimes with fatal results.A highly intellectual but eccentric sc...

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Report copyright infringementby Donia Zhang (Translator)As one of the greatest masterpieces in Chinese history, Dao De Jing is a philosophical work by Laozi (Li Er, c.571‒471 BCE) published in the 4th century BCE. It contains 81 chapters/verses whose essence is on moral philosophy and ideal ways for humans to be in harmony with nature, self-cultivation, governing the country, deploying military forces, among other things. Although some of the ideas are only historically relevant at the time w...

Convergence Emergence: Entering a New Paradigm of Consciousness and Perception

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Report copyright infringementby Bob Davis (Author), Francois Wilson (Cover Design by)Convergence Emergence boldly asserts that humanity has entered a transformative, groundbreaking intellectual paradigm-one defined by holistic integration, creative synthesis, and dynamic convergence. Departing from the rigid, mechanistic thinking that dominated the past 400 years, Dr. Bob Davis offers insightful, multidisciplinary examples drawn from cutting-edge technology, the physical and natural sciences,...

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by Anonymous (Author), Laurie L. Patton (Translator), Laurie L. Patton (Introduction by)The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war he is to fight, and culminates in Krishna revealing to the warrior his true cosmic form, counselling him to search for the u...

And so It Is: Begin to Change Your Life Right Now!

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Report copyright infringementby Lynne Wilson (Author)If you've been looking for a way to change your life and move forward, this book will give you affirmations and the way to actually make them work in your life. Your inner and outer voice will change, and you will find you are creating a better life.Author BiographyI have been most of my life very spiritual and always seem to see the world in a different way. As a young teen I was drawn to Yogananda, the bible, just about anything that had ...

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Report copyright infringementby The Dark Lords (Author)Preface to full color, paperback edition: This book documents the manifestations of the Black Sun's power in our thoughts, our lives, and the world at large. It is a first written testament of the philosophy, mysticism, praxis and ideology of Kâmûd-Dûn ("the Shadow Path"), as conceived and practiced at our Black Sanctum. It is the foundational document of Borzûm-Gâzûl--the Order of the Black Sun--which hereby supersedes and encompasses al...

Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times: Why Humanity Needs Herodotus, the Man Who Invented History

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Katz Anhalt (Author)How the wisdom of Herodotus can fortify us against political falsehoods and violent extremism Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek writer Herodotus introduced the concept of objective truth derived from factual investigation and empirical deduction. Writing just before the start of the catastrophic Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), Herodotus addressed an increasingly polarized Greek world. His Histories demonstrates that the capacity for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anatole Bourman (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 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Taylor (Author)In the quiet hum of everyday life, a chance encounter with a stray cat named Silky becomes the catalyst for an unexpected journey of self-discovery. Searching for Silky is a heartwarming memoir that chronicles the profound connection between a woman and the feline that wandered into her world, along with the unexpected wisdom found in the wild spaces around us. More than just a story of the bond formed with Silky, this book is a meditation...

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings - Paperback

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by Thomas Paine (Author), Mark Philp (Editor)Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was vilified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return t...

But is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory - Paperback

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by Cynthia Freeland (Author)From Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today's art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on display. This often leads exasperated viewers to exclaim--is this really art? In this invaluable primer on aesthetics, Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are so highly valued in art, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many engrossing examples. Writing clearly and perceptively, she explores the cultur...

Dialogues and Natural History of Religion - Paperback

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by David Hume (Author), J. C. a. Gaskin (Editor)David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what is known of the universe, or whether such a belief is even consistent with such knowledge. The Natural History of Religion investigates the origins of belief, and follows its development from polytheism to dogmatic monotheism. Together, these works constitute the most formidable attack upon religious b...

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy - Paperback

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by Khaled El-Rouayheb (Editor), Sabine Schmidtke (Editor)The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that i...

Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Simon Critchley (Author)In this enlightening new Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley shows us that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often ignored by the analytic tradition. He discusses the ideas and approaches of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida. He also introduces key concepts such as existentialism, nihilism,...

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by Ryan Wasserman (Author)Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating questions raised by the possibility of time travel. This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles such as the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. Ryan Wasserman draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an ...

An Introduction to Political Philosophy - Paperback

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by Jonathan Wolff (Author)Who should hold political power? Are there any justified limits to people's liberty? What is democracy? Is it really that attractive? An Introduction to Political Philosophy is the beginner's ideal introduction to the field, combining clarity and a conversational style with a thought-provoking account of the central questions in political philosophy. Wolff explores a series of enduring and timeless questions, spanning centuries and millennia to consider a diverse ran...

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by Stewart Shapiro (Author)Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which one can be a pluralist or relativist about logic. One of these is an extended argument that words and phrases like 'valid' and 'logical consequence' are polysemous or, perhaps better, are cl...

The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology - Paperback

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by Giovanni Stanghellini (Author), Matthew Broome (Author), Anthony Vincent Fernandez (Author)The field of phenomenological psychopathology (PP) is concerned with exploring and describing the individual experience of those suffering from mental disorders. Whilst there is often an understandable emphasis within psychiatry on diagnosis and treatment, the subjective experience of the individual is frequently overlooked. Yet a patient's own account of how their illness affects their thoughts, val...

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by Peter Singer (Editor)What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live? If we can, what would it be like, and how are we going to know when we have found it? To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, evolution, game theory, and works of fiction, in addition to the classic moral philosophy of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Kant, and Confucius. By c...

Utmost: Two Physicians Share Their Experiences Serving Humanity During Disasters

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Report copyright infringementby Ashis Brahma (Author), Elizabeth A. Garcia-Gray (Author)Follow this chronicle of a profound spiritual friendship between these two humanitarian doctors as they strive to help those most in need. Ashis and Liz met in person in Chad in 2006, which sparked a correspondence that explores a wide range of topics, including their quest to live to the utmost with love and compassion for humankind. Ashis Brahma MD is a tropical medicine physician who has worked with Doc...

How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism - Paperback

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by Roger Scruton (Author)The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the most important political problem of our time. The environmental movement...

Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit - Hardcover

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by Jeff McMahan (Editor), Tim Campbell (Editor), James Goodrich (Editor)Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the best moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty new essays in this book were written in his honour and have all been inspired by his work--in particular, his work in an area of moral philosophy known as 'population ethics', which is concerned with moral issues raised by causing people to exist. Until Parfit began writing about these issues in th...

Morality, Competition, and the Firm: The Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics - Paperback

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by Joseph Heath (Author)In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional approaches to business ethics, Heath argues that the basic principles of corporate social responsibility are already implicit in the institutional norms that structure both marketplace competition and the modern business corpora...

Ageing Without Ageism?: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals - Hardcover

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by Greg Bognar (Editor), Axel Gosseries (Editor)Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public li...