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A Little History of the World - Paperback

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by E. H. Gombrich (Author), Clifford Harper (Illustrator)The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time." So begins A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old. Rather than focusing on dry facts and dates, E. H. Gombrich vividly brings the full span of human ex...

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by Elena Gorfinkel (Author), John David Rhodes (Author)What are film props? What do they do? This book answers these questions by a close attention to those material objects that are used to construct cinematic worlds. The term "prop" is short for property. This truncated term's etymology belies the expansiveness of the concept and indicates the micro and macro scales at which the prop operates. Props are the material--often literal--furniture of cinema's diegetic reality. Props are also narr...

The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the Cultivation of Character - Paperback

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by Dale Wright (Author)Here is a lucid, accessible, and inspiring guide to the six perfections--Buddhist teachings about six dimensions of human character that require "perfecting" generosity, morality, tolerance, energy, meditation, and wisdom. Drawing on the Diamond Sutra, the Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom, and other essential Mahayana texts, Dale Wright shows how these teachings were understood and practiced in classical Mahayana Buddhism and how they can be adapted to contemporary life in...

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by Solomon (Author)Existentialism, 2/e, offers an exceptional and accessible introduction to the richness and diversity of existentialist thought. Retaining the focus of the highly successful first edition, the second edition provides extensive material on the "big four" existentialists--Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre--while also including selections from twenty-four other authors. Giving readers a sense of the variety of existentialist thought around the world, this edition a...

Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil - Paperback

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by Candice Delmas (Author)What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather th...

The Golden Compass and Philosophy: God Bites the Dust - Paperback

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by Richard Greene (Editor), Rachel Robison (Editor)The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to comment on organized religion. These books have piqued the interest of the contributors to this fascinating volume, who use it to probe the philosophical issues that inform them. Could a golden compass, or al...

Halo and Philosophy: Intellect Evolved - Paperback

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by Luke Cuddy (Editor)Since the Doom series, First Person Shooter (FPS) videogames have ricocheted through the gaming community, often reaching outside that community to the wider public. While critics primarily lampoon FPSs for their aggressiveness and on-screen violence, gamers see something else. Halo is one of the greatest, most successful FPSs ever to grace the world of gaming. Although Halo is a FPS, it has a science-fiction storyline that draws from previous award-winning science ficti...

World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King - Paperback

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by Luke Cuddy (Editor), John Nordlinger (Editor)Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in videogame history, World of Warcraft is everywhere -- from episodes of South Park and The Simpsons, to online series like Watch the Guild, accolades and awards from game critics, and prime-time commercials with Mr. T. Inevitably, such a cultural phenomenon triggers deeper questions. When does an assumed identity becom...

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by Daniel Yim (Editor), Galen Foresman (Editor), Robert Arp (Editor)As cartoonist, author, public speaker, blogger, and periscoper, Scott Adams has had best-sellers in several different fields: his Dilbert cartoons, his meditations on the philosophy of Dilbert, his works on how to achieve success in business and all other areas of life, his two remarkable books on religion, and now his controversial work on political persuasion. Adams's two most recent best-sellers are How to Fail at Almost ...

American Horror Story and Philosophy: Life Is But a Nightmare - Paperback

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by Richard Greene (Editor), Rachel Robison-Greene (Editor)In American Horror Story and Philosophy, philosophers with varying backgrounds and interests explore different aspects of this popular "erotic thriller" TV show, with its enthusiastic cult following and strong critical approval. The result is a collection of intriguing and provocative thoughts on deeper questions prompted by the creepy side of the human imagination. As an "anthology show," American Horror Story has a unique structure i...

Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition - Paperback

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by Isaiah Berlin (Author), Henry Hardy (Editor), Alan Ryan (Foreword by)Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, explains why they were r...

John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice - Paperback

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by Thomas Pogge (Author), Michelle Kosch (Translator)John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics. Nonetheless Rawlsian theory is not easy to understand, particularly for beginners, and his writing can be dense and forbidding. Thomas Pogge's short introduction (originally published in German) gives...

Believing Philosophy: A Guide to Becoming a Christian Philosopher - Hardcover

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by Dolores G. Morris (Author)Believing Philosophy introduces Christians to philosophy and the tools it provides believers, helping them understand, articulate, and defend their faith in an age of unbelief.Philosophy has been a part of Christianity since its earliest days, and theistic philosophy predates Christianity by thousands of years. But Christians today often don't realize or are skeptical of all that philosophy can offer them. In Part 1, author Dolores G. Morris explains why Christian...

A Nondualistic Pentecostal Theology: Exploring Dialectics and Becoming Through Amos Yong and Slavoj Zizek - Hardcover

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by Spencer Moffatt (Author)A Nondualistic Pentecostal Theology: Exploring Dialectics and Becoming through Amos Yong and Slavoj Zizek invites readers to consider a dialectical theology for the third millennium, grounded in nonduality and expressed from a pentecostal perspective. Amos Yong has laid a valuable foundation for such an approach, though his work stops short of fully achieving nondualism. Despite highlighting diverse voices within pentecostal theology through Pentecost-inspired theme...

Ancient Greek Philosophers: The Christians before Christ - Paperback

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by Vassileios Bellios (Author), Elena Kladi (Translator) Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 03, 2024

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

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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...

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny - Paperback

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by Kate Manne (Author)Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel...

Invited to Speak: Tell it true, make it vivid, keep it tight - Paperback

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by Joseph Bednarik (Author)"Invited to Speak is like spending time in the company of someone who will remind you-even with all its suffering-of the beauty and mystery of the world." -Ellen Bass, co-author of The Courage to Heal"Joseph Bednarik has given a gift to all of us in this series of stories and meditations." -Stephen Tobolowsky, author of My Adventures with GodGliding into the spaces between inspirational TED talks and late-night conversations around a beach fire, these seven presenta...

The City in Which I Love You - Paperback

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by Li-Young Lee (Author)Contents I.Furious Versionis II.The InterrogationThis Hour And What Is DeadArise, Go DownMy Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out LoudFor A New Citizen Of These United StatesWith Ruins III.This Room And Everything In ItThe City In Which I Love You IV. The WaitingA StoryGoodnightYou Must SingHere I AmA Final Thing V.The CleavingAuthor BiographyLi-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. In 1959 his father, after spending a year as a political pr...

Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues - Paperback

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by George Berkeley (Author), Howard Robinson (Editor)Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth-century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy of Marx. This edition of Berkeley's two key works has an introduction which examines and in part defends his arguments for idealism, as well as o...

Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals - Paperback

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by Christine M. Korsgaard (Author)Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality...

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by Christopher Butler (Author)Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museumculture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics and artwork...

J. G. Fichte: Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre and Related Writings, 1794-95 - Paperback

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by Daniel Breazeale (Author)The Wissenschaftslehre or "doctrine of science" was the great achievement of the German idealist philosopher J. G. Fichte. Daniel Breazeale presents accessible new translation of three works in which Fichte developed this philosophical system. The centerpiece of this volume is a new English translation of Fichte's only full-scale presentation of the principles of his philosophy, the Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre (1794/95). Accompanying this are new tr...

Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Allingham (Author)We make choices all the time--about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making decisions which a...

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian - Hardcover

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by Lao Lao Tzu (Author), Robert Henricks (Translator)In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have miraculously survived intact since 300 B.C., the "Guodian Laozi," is by far the earliest version of the Tao Te Ching ever unearthed. Students of ancient Chinese civilization proclaimed the text a decisive breakthrough in the understanding of this famous text: it provides the most conclusive evidence t...

Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice - Hardcover

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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 ...

The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic - Hardcover

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by Jean-Manuel Roubineau (Author), Malcolm Debevoise (Author), Phillip Mitsis (Editor)An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he was mocked and vilified. A favorite subject of sculptors and painters since the Renaissance, his notoriety is equally due to his infamously eccentric behavior, s...

The Passion of Michel Foucault - Paperback

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by James Miller (Author)The first detailed account of Foucault's lifelong obsession with death, suicide, drugs, and sadomasochistic eroticism, James Miller's impressively documented study is a provocative exploration of the life and work of one of the most influential, original, and controversial figures in 20th-century intellectual history.Front JacketA startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers, the book chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and profession...

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by Luke Russell (Author)Victims of wrongdoing are often advised not to harbour resentment or seek revenge. Instead, they are encouraged to forgive and move on. Forgiveness is described as a generous gift that heals the rifts created by wrongdoing. It is the path to happiness, the way to escape bitter cycles of revenge and retribution. Yet in some situations it seems that it would be unwise, even dangerous, to forgive. We might worry that victims who forgive unrepentant perpetrators are lettin...

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness - Paperback

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by Uriah Kriegel (Editor)The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness provides the most comprehensive overview of current philosophical research on consciousness. Featuring contributions from some of the most prominent experts in the field, it explores the wide range of types of consciousness there may be, the many psychological phenomena with which consciousness interacts, and the various views concerning the ultimate relationship between consciousness and physical reality. It is a...

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities - Paperback

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by John J. Mearsheimer (Author)A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony--the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended--is doomed to fail Named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018 "Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force."--Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo's World It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build intern...

Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction - Hardcover

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by Ronald R. Sundstrom (Author)The United States of America is experiencing a housing crisis, which, by some estimates, started in the early 2000s and was made worse by the financial crisis of the 2007-2008 recession. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lack decent and affordable housing or everyday shelter. Instead, they must live in tent encampments stowed in the niches of neighborhoods and under the freeway overpasses of many major U.S. cities, often in unsafe conditions. Signs of this cris...