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Twelve Essential Upanishads Vol. II: Chandogya Upanishad, Teachings from the High Chant - Paperback

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by Shukavak N. Dasa (Translator)Chandogya Upanishad is the second of the two major Upanishads. Its central theme is the correspondence between the cosmos and the fire ritual as it is fashioned around the High Chant. "Chāndogya" means the "singer of the chandas," chandas being the hymns of the Sama Veda, and gya means to sing.When a treasure of gold lays hidden in the ground, people, who do not know, walk over it every day and never find it. Similarly, all beings move through this world and ne...

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality - Paperback

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by Danielle Allen (Author)Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed t...

A Philosopher Looks at Architecture - Paperback

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by Paul Guyer (Author)What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, as well as in artistic styles and cultures. Guyer discusses philosophers and architects thr...

In the Dark Places of Wisdom - Paperback

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by Peter Kingsley (Author)The author of Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic has unearthed a sensational, true story of a mystical and esoteric tradition that lies hidden at the roots of Western culture--and that gave rise to the world we live in. Number of Pages: 255 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: December 01, 1999

Ethics for Everyone: How to Increase Your Moral Intelligence - Paperback

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by Arthur Dobrin (Author)Ethics for Everyone Is it always wrong to lie? Is it always right to try to help another person? Are you bound to keep every promise you make? In Ethics for Everyone: How to Increase Your Moral Intelligence, you'll find out how well you make moral choices and learn how to increase your ability to understand and analyze ethical dilemmas. This sensible, practical guide provides thoughtful-and sometimes surprising-answers to tough real-world questions. You'll sort throug...

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - Hardcover

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by Mark Fisher (Author), Matt Colquhoun (Editor)A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016. Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element -- the classroom -- outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished. Beginning with that most fundamental of questions -- "Do we reall...

The Prince (Reader's Library Classics) - Paperback

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by Niccolò Machiavelli (Author)The lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. A Prince must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.The modern-day term "Machiavellian" is used to describe deception, dishonesty, and cruelty to meet a goal. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli was written as a guide for autocrats on how to govern using means that were meant to deceive and manipulate a government's constituency-to the extent of advocating the use ...

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 Leigh Byrne (Author)From the bestselling author of the Call Me Tuesday series comes a suspenseful, thought-provoking reminder of our intrinsic connection to one another and the devastating impact our choices can have on the lives of those around us. Addison Quinn was nine when her parents were killed in the worst car crash ever recorded in the sleepy town of Driftwood, Indiana. She alone survived to tell the police about a mysterious blood splatter she'd seen on the outside of the windshi...

Billie's Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard - Hardcover

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by Fumi Okiji (Author)Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book, Jazz as Critique, and, crucially, bringing Yoruba aesthetics into the conversation, Okiji attunes to various sites of intemperance and equivocation in thought and music. Billie's Bent Elbow eschews the parsimonious tendencies...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life - Paperback

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by Daniel C. Dennett (Author)In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to thei...

The Power of Ideas: Second Edition - Paperback

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by Isaiah Berlin (Author), Henry Hardy (Editor), Avishai Margalit (Foreword by)The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The conne...

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by George Steiner (Author)Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute that is growing an...

Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline, Revised Edition - Paperback

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by Ashwini Narayanan (Author), Cheri Huber (Author)Making a Change for Good will assist anyone to make a change of any kind, whatever the area-- diet, fitness, stress, addictions, unskillful behaviors, anxiety, finances, spiritual practice... . Kind, compassionate encouragement for confronting personal issues head on and supportive tools for addressing the struggle are the differences in approach this book offers. Readers realize that lack clarity is the hindrance to addressing an issue, not ...

Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher - Paperback

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by Nicholas Fearn (Author)For those who don't know the difference between Lucretius's spear and Hume's fork, Zeno and the Tortoise explains not just who each philosopher was and what he thought, but exactly how he came to think in the way he did. Nicholas Fearn presents philosophy as a collection of tools -- the tricks of a trade that, in the end, might just be all tricks, each to be fruitfully applied to a variety of everyday predicaments. In a witty and engaging style that incorporates ever...

Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence - Paperback

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by Patrick Lin (Editor), Ryan Jenkins (Editor), Keith Abney (Editor)The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the robotics industry and broader...

Y'All Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia - Paperback

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by Z. Zane McNeill (Editor)Y'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of "we're queer and we're here to stay, cause we're every bit a piece of the landscape as the rocks and the trees" echoing through the hills of Appalachia and into the boardrooms of every media outlet and opportunistic author seeking to define Appalachia from the outside for their own politi...

Neoplatonic Saints: The Lives of Plotinus and Proclus by Their Students - Paperback

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by Mark Edwards (Commentaries by), Mark Edwards (Translator)These two texts are fundamental for the understanding not only of Neoplatonism but also of the conventions of biography in late antiquity. Neither has received such extensive annotation before in English, and this new commentary makes full use of recent scholarship. The long introduction is intended both as a beginner's guide to Neoplatonism and as a survey of ancient biographical writing.Author BiographyMark Edwards is University Le...

On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power - Paperback

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by Erich Fromm (Author)"Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience."--from On DisobedienceOne of the great psychological and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Erich Fromm expounded on the importance of disobedience and the authentic voice of the individual in modern culture. As relevant now as when it was first published, On Disobedience is a collection of provocative essays, including the title entry, ...

Archery for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Shooting Recurve and Compound Bows - Paperback

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by Amante P. Marinas (Author)Archery for Beginners is the complete instructional guide for anyone interested in taking up recreational archery. This book covers all the essentials for the beginning archer--from basic skills and equipment to effective and safe training methods. There are chapters on both recurve and compound bows, the two most popular types, as well as information on how to track your progress. Topics included in this book are: Compound and Recurve bows Archery equipment and...

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by William P. Alston (Author)In Perceiving God, William P. Alston offers a clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience. He argues that the "perception of God"--his term for direct experiential awareness of God--makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God among laypersons and famous mystics, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the b...

The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia - Paperback

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by Carmen P. Thompson (Author)The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia changes the narrative about the origins of race and Whiteness in America. With an exhaustive array of archival documents, Carmen P. Thompson demonstrates not only that Whiteness predates European expansion to the Americas as evidenced in their participation in the transatlantic slave trade since the fifteenth century, but more importantly that it was the principal dynamic in t...

Irregularly Irregular: Further reflections on life, living, and relationships for a reflective audience - Paperback

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by Cariappa Annaiah (Author)In this new collection of 260 poems created over 13 years, Cariappa Annaiah continues his reflections on life, living, and relationships as he explores body and mind.Excerpts from the Introduction: The focus of my poetry is relationships-personal, professional, and social. Why? Personal and professional happiness depends on the state of health of my relationship with myself, and then with others.The poems are hyper-local. By counting from one and improving my abili...

The Depression Book: Depression as an Opportunity for Spiritual Growth - Paperback

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by Cheri Huber (Author), June Shiver (Illustrator)This book provides a process for dealing with the dull pain of depression. It employs a custom hand-lettered font and many lighthearted illustrations. A self-guided retreat has been added to assist readers to explore how to be compassionate with themselves when depressed.Author BiographyCheri Huber is the founder of the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Murphys, California. She is the author of twenty-four books, among them the widely read There I...

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by Eugenie Brinkema (Author)In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresholds attest to formal logics of torture and cruelty, violence and finitude, friendship an...

Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Stephen Eric Bronner (Author)Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many...

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition - Paperback

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by Isaiah Berlin (Author), Henry Hardy (Editor), John Banville (Foreword by)"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the pas...

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition - Paperback

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by Isaiah Berlin (Author), Henry Hardy (Editor), Roger Hausheer (Introduction by)In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a...

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition - Paperback

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by Isaiah Berlin (Author), Henry Hardy (Editor), Michael Ignatieff (Foreword by)"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction betwee...

The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition - Paperback

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by Isaiah Berlin (Author), Henry Hardy (Editor), John Gray (Foreword by)A brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth century In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a bravura intellectual perform...

Criminal Testimonial Injustice - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Lackey (Author)Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from the very beginning of the American criminal legal process in interrogation rooms to its final stages in front of parole boards, testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. This testimony is then unreasonably regarded as representing the testifiers' truest or most...

Beyond Good and Evil: The Philosophy Classic - Hardcover

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Tom Butler-Bowdon (Editor), Christopher Janaway (Introduction by)A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark work continues to be one of the most well-known and influential explorations of moral and ethical philosophy ever conceived. Expanding on the concepts from his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche adopts a polemic ...