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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies
David Rieff · Yale University Press
Pages: 145
Format: Print book
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The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this... |
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Tuesday's Promise: One Veteran, One Dog, and Their Bold Quest to Change Lives
Luis Carlos Montalvan · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalván takes to the road with his beloved Golden Retriever service dog, Tuesday, advocating for America's wounded warriors and for each other. Luis's first book sparked a national... |
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The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
Gavin Edwards · Random House
Pages: 354
Format: Print book
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"Reading The Tao of Bill Murray is like spending time with Bill, but probably safer." - Danny Rubin, screenwriter of Groundhog DayThis collection of the most epic, hilarious, and strange Bill Murray stories, many of which have never before been reported, spotlights the star's... |
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The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"The Broken Ladder is an important, timely, and beautifully written account of how inequality affects us all." - Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank PinkA timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral... |
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Idiot's Guides: Philosophy, Fourth Edition
Jay Stevenson Ph.D. · ALPHA; 4 edition
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A newly visual approach, this updated edition will include infographics, photos, and pull quotes to help reinforce learning of the subject of philosophy. Beginning with the pre-Socratics and Eastern philosophers, all of the major schools of thought are covered. Content includes religious... |
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The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
A.C. Grayling · Bloomsbury USA; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--all of them--right across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious, and do they stand up to scrutiny? Can there be a clear, full statement of these arguments that once and for all will show... |
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Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free
Cody Wilson · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Cody Wilson, a self-described crypto-anarchist and rogue thinker, combines the controversial yet thrilling story of the production of the first ever 3D printable gun with a startling philosophical manifesto that gets to the heart of the twenty-first century debate over the freedom of information... |
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On Human Nature
Roger Scruton · Princeton University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton... |
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The new social story book
Carol Gray · Future Horizons
Pages: 335
Format: Print book
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Since the early 90s, Carol Gray's world-famous Social Stories have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 15th Anniversary Edition of her best-selling book offers ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, and new sections added... |
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Inner engineering : a Yogi's guide to joy
Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Thought leader, visionary, philanthropist, mystic, and yogi Sadhguru presents Western readers with time-tested technologies to achieve absolute well-being. The founder of the Isha Foundation, an all-volunteer organization involved in large-scale humanitarian, educational, and environmental... |
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Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
Laura Kipnis · Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love, a witty and probing examination of why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the pageIts no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years weve witnessed so many spectacular public... |
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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier
Steven Watts · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy's allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s -- his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal?... |
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