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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
Liza Long · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother... |
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What Philosophy Can Do
Gary Gutting · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A leading American philosopher brings the tools of his trade to contentious contemporary debates.How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports? How can we talk sensibly about God?In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary... |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Amir Aczel · HarperCollins
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's... |
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
David J. Hand · Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
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In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions,... |
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The Courage to Be: Third Edition
Paul Tillich · Yale University Press; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety.... |
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Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained
Colin McGinn · The MIT Press,
Pages: 225
Format: Print book
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Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by explaining ten classic,... |
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Snap Strategies for Couples: 40 Fast Fixes for Everyday Relationship Pitfalls
Dr. Lana Staheli · Seal Press
Format: Print book
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Snap Strategies for Couples: 40 Fast Fixes for Everyday Relationship Pitfalls is full of quick solutions to every relationship's most common problems. Dr. Lana Staheli and Dr. Pepper Schwartz offer 40 practical, immediate fixes (or "snaps") that partners can use to end the fighting,... |
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Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism
Philip Kitcher · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular... |
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Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
Rob Brotherton · Bloomsbury
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others.Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part) . They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society... |
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The Ruler's Guide: China's Greatest Emperor and His Timeless Secrets of Success
Chinghua Tang · Scribner
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, here for the first time in English is the timeless wisdom of China's greatest emperor Tang Taizong (598-649 AD) which will show anyone who leads or manages how to achieve unparalleled results and an enduring legacy.Tang Taizong... |
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Curiosity
Alberto Manguel · Yale University Press
Pages: 377
Format: Print book
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Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters... |
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Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Mike Lankford · Melville House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he write backwards, and was he really... |
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Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge · Pantheon
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These... |
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Promise Land: My Journey through America's Self-Help Culture
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“In writing this book I walked on hot coals, met a man making a weight-loss robot, joined a Healing Circle, and faced my debilitating fear of flying. Of all of these things, talking to my father about my mother’s death was by far the hardest.” The daughter of a widowed... |
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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
A. C. Grayling · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's... |
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