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The Hummingbird Principle: Seven Lenses for Becoming More Human - Hardcover

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by Chris Burke (Author), Anne de Wild (Author)Know Who You Are and Do What You Can Can it really be that simple? With all of the challenges we face in our daily lives-both at home and out in the world--it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. But what if each one of us-yes, including you-has a unique role to play in creatively solving these problems? The Hummingbird Principle is about peeling back the layers of who you have been, who you think you should be, and what you think you can and cannot d...

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by R. L. Wing (Author)An important, new interpretation of the I Ching, the 5,000-year-old Chinese book of wisdom, in a unique workbook format designed to help truth-seekers find new meaning and enlightenment in its ancient lore. Designed for those actively exploring this ancient system in order to better understand their lives, The I Ching Workbook serves as a simple guide to the study and interpretation of the I Ching's advice. It provides a format for each of the 64 hexagrams that allows on...

Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Ferber (Author)In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but music, art, religion, and philosophy. Balancing lively details with intriguing topics, it sheds light on such subjects as the "Sensibility" movement, which p...

The Urgency of Indigenous Values - Paperback

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by Philip P. Arnold (Author)In this book, Philip Arnold utilizes a collaborative method, derived from the "Two-Row Wampum" (1613) and his 40 year relationship with the Haudenosaunee, in exploring the urgent need to understand Indigenous values, support Indigenous Peoples, and to offer a way toward humanity's survival in the face of ecological and environmental catastrophe. Indigenous values connect human beings with the living natural world through ceremonial exchange practices with non-human...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Paperback

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by Mark Fisher (Author)It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin...

Living with Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial

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Report copyright infringementby Manon Garcia (Author), Maya B. Kronic (Translator)Gisèle Pelicot's story outraged the world. The sickening parade of crimes to which she was subjected and her betrayal are dark pages in our history. Feminist philosopher Manon Garcia decided to attend the trial and to analyse its resonance for our future. It became the trial that demonstrated that trials will never suffice to serve justice. If the perpetrators, for the most part, seemed so unashamed of what they...

Shibui: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging

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Report copyright infringementby Sanae Ishida (Author)Discover "shibui" -- the Japanese philosophy of finding the simple, subtle beauty that emerges with time. Through watercolor illustrations, personal stories, and mindfulness reflections, this book offers Eastern wisdom to help readers embrace healthy aging with joy and grace. SHIBUI introduces readers to a transformative Japanese approach to aging that celebrates the subtle beauty, wisdom, and joy that emerge with time. Through engaging per...

Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines - Paperback

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by Thomas More (Author), Francis Bacon (Author), Henry Neville (Author)With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556 translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustration...

Meditations (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Aurelius (Author) Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket In the quiet moments between battles and ruling an empire, a Roman emperor turns inward, seeking wisdom on how to live a life of purpose. Through raw and personal reflections, he wrestles with questions of power, fate, and the pursuit of inner peace. These meditations reveal the struggle to remain virtuous in a chaotic world, offering timeless insights on self-discipline and resilience....

The Annotated Gödel: A Reader's Guide to his Classic Paper on Logic and Incompleteness - Hardcover

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by Hal Prince (Author)The Annotated Gödel offers a guided tour of Kurt Gödel's 1931 article on incompleteness, which demonstrated unexpected limits to the power of many logical systems. Today we call these results Gödel's First and Second Incompleteness Theorems. The book includes the complete article in a new English translation, interleaved with commentary that guides the reader through Gödel's work, step by step.The commentary concentrates on Gödel's exposition. It describes what he is doi...

The Annotated Gödel: A Reader's Guide to his Classic Paper on Logic and Incompleteness - Paperback

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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Holiday (Author)In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend. Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is the one we most desperately lack. Literacy is declining in our nation's schools. Most adults read less than a single book per year. The great statesman and philosophers of the past would not be fooled, as we are, b...

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by David R. Shlim (Author)Finding a fascinating and gratifying medical practice in Kathmandu saved his medical career, but befriending a reincarnate Tibetan lama transformed his life.This compellingly written memoir is a grand adventure tale of travel in Nepal and Tibet, tense and highly emotional medical encounters, new romances, and ground-breaking medical research. But all these eventually take a back seat to what the author learns about Tibetan Buddhism and the ability to train in compass...

Assemblage Theory and Method - Paperback

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by Ian Buchanan (Author)What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there is in using this term and not some other term, or indeed no term at all? What makes an assemblage an assemblage, and not some other kind of collection of things? This book advances beyond this impasse and offers practic...

Business Ethics for Better Behavior - Paperback

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by Jason Brennan (Author), William English (Author), John Hasnas (Author)A clear and concise roadmap for ethical business behavior using commonsense moral principles Business Ethics for Better Behavior concisely answers the three most pressing ethical questions business professionals face: What makes business practices right or wrong?; Why do normal, decent businesspeople of good will sometimes do the wrong thing?; and How can we use the answer to these questions to get ourselves, our coworke...

Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice - Paperback

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by Martha C. Nussbaum (Author)Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel anger in those cases would be considered suspect. Is this how we should think about anger, or is anger above all a disease, deforming both the personal and the political? In this ...

On Distance, Belonging, Isolation and the Quarantined Church of Today - Paperback

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by Pablo Irizar (Author), Miles Hollingworth (Editor)From the closure of churches during the pandemic, and therefore in the absence of a community of worship, arises the pressing theological question: what does it mean to belong 'from a distance'? Although many have reacted to this question by providing virtual alternatives for activities and by reaffirming solidarity in times of hardship, a theological response requires articulating the effects of quarantine and distancing on what it means t...

Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy - Paperback

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by Madison Powers (Author), Ruth Faden (Author)In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health policy is just. In this pathbreaking book, senior bio...

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him. - Paperback

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), R. Kevin Hill (Translator), Michael A. Scarpitti (Translator)Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, The Joyous Science Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies. Throughout history, some books have changed th...

The Journey of God: Christianity in Six Movements

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Report copyright infringementby J. D. Lyonhart (Author)The Journey of God is an exploration into the rich tapestry of Christianity, designed to captivate both mind and soul. The Journey of God transcends traditional theology writing, weaving a compelling narrative that journeys through the six pivotal acts of the Christian story-Creation, Fall, Nation, Redemption, Church, and End. Each chapter unfurls as part novel, part sermon, and part philosophical inquiry, challenging readers to engage wi...

Radical Romanticism: Democracy, Religion, and the Environmental Imagination

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Report copyright infringementby Mark S. Cladis (Author)Romanticism is often reduced to nostalgic pastoralism and solitary contemplation of the sublime. But a radical strand of Romantic writers and thinkers offered sweeping political, ecological, and religious critiques of capitalism, racism, settler colonialism, and environmental destruction. Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work, this book is a bold new account of Roma...

What is Metaphysics: Ruminations on Principial Knowledge and Some of Its Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Author)What Is Metaphysics? offers an exposition, informed primarily by the Islamic metaphysical tradition, of principial and divine knowledge as distinct from information or merely factual knowledge. Advancing an argument in favor of integrating metaphysics at every level of one's being, the book also delves into various applications of metaphysics pertaining to the domains of religion, education, philosophy, art, ecology, and science. ...

The Politics of Ape and Machine: Power as Organization

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Costello (Author)Power shapes everything around us -- from the way governments are built to the way families, workplaces, and communities function. Yet most of us rarely stop to ask: What is power? How does it really work? And why do some people and institutions hold onto it while others lose it? In this collection of essays, Joseph Costello draws on history, politics, business, and culture to reveal the hidden and outright forces that govern our lives. ...

Knowledge Doesn't Exist and Other Thoughts on Critical Thinking

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher P. Dwyer (Author)Critical thinking (CT) is essential in education, the workplace, and everyday life, yet many struggle to understand or apply it effectively. This book breaks down the 'what, how, and when' of CT in a clear, accessible way, making it practical for readers from all walks of life. Drawing on over fifteen years of researching CT, Dwyer presents accessible evidence-based lessons and strategies for using CT in real-world situations, helpi...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Judt (Author), Timothy Snyder (Contribution by)"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought." (Los Angeles Times)One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings the past century vividly to life in this unprecedented and original history. Structured as a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Tim...

When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan T. Anderson (Author)Can a boy be "trapped" in a girl's body? Can modern medicine "reassign" sex? Is our sex "assigned" to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of "gender identity"? When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosoph...

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Report copyright infringementby Lars Cornelissen (Author)Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studies, Cornelissen explores the various racial constructs that structure neoliberal ideology, some of which are explicit, while others are more coded. Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism a...

An Introduction to Ontology Engineering: Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby C. Maria Keet (Author) Number of Pages: 338 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Publication Date: September 01, 2025

Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Copjec (Author)Back JacketIn Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses--psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses cross paths only long enough for historiacists to charge psychoanalysis with an indifference to history, but here psychoanalysis, via Lacan, goes on the offensive. Refusing to cede historicity to the historicists...

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Report copyright infringementby John Locke (Author)As one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the origins of civil society. Endeavoring to reconstruct the nature and purpose of government, a social contract theory is proposed. The Second Treatise sets forth a detailed discussion of how civil society came to be and the nature of its inception. Locke's discussion of tacit consent, separation of powe...

Is Belief Believable?: Reasoning about God from Plato and Aquinas to C. S. Lewis and Jordan Peterson

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Kaczor (Author), Robert Barron (Foreword by)Is faith just wishful thinking, or can belief in God stand up to reason? In Is Belief Believable?, Christopher Kaczor challenges the idea that faith and reason are incompatible. Drawing from philosophy, theology, and psychology, Kaczor offers clear and compelling arguments that address skepticism head-on. Whether you're wrestling with doubts, seeking answers to life's biggest questions, or looking to stren...

Sacred Wounds: Finding the Beauty, Goodness, and Truth in Our Pain

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Report copyright infringementby Dakota Hauck (Author), Bob Goff (Foreword by)Where is God in the midst of our pain? When life breaks us open-when suffering feels unbearable, when loss unravels our foundation, when old wounds linger like shadows-we're left asking the same haunting question: Where is God in all of this? The world is not as it should be. We feel it deep in our bones. But what if our wounds-rather than signs of abandonment-are invitations? In Sacred Wounds: Finding the Beauty, Go...