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New Titles - Psychology & Philosophy
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Serial Killers: Shocking, Gripping True Crime Stories of the Most Evil Murderers
Brian Innes · Quercus Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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The Terrifying Story of the Most Monstrous Serial Killers through History.Serial Killers are the most notorious and disturbing of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity. Yet they endlessy fascinate and continue to capture the public's attention with their strange... |
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Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher
Armand D'Angour · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers.Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the foundations of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian... |
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Unimaginable: What We Imagine and What We Can't
Graham Ward · I.B. Tauris
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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What we imagine can crush us or create us, destroy us or heal us; it can pitch us into battles with demons or set us among the songs of angels. It has roots beneath consciousness and is expressed in moods, rhythms, tones and textures of experience that are as much mental as physiological.... |
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Picnic Comma Lightning: The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century
Scott, Laurence · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world." -- GuardianIn Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert offers a memorably brief account of his parents' death: "picnic, lightning." Picnic Comma Lightning,... |
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Cricket Ball
Gary Cox · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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No object encapsulates the subtle, mysterious richness of cricket as much as its most famous character, the cricket ball: the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game. Gary Cox tells us the life story of the ball in its many guises: new ball, old ball, live ball, dead ball,... |
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Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
Wallaert, Matt · Portfolio
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Nudge meets Hooked in a practical approach to designing products and services that change behavior, from what we buy to how we work.Deciding what to create at modern companies often looks like an episode of Mad Men: people throw ideas around until one sounds sexy enough to execute and then... |
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Old Whigs: Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence
Greg Weiner
Format: Hardcover
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The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln against disunion at a moment when the Northern... |
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What Is Philosophy for?
Mary Midgley · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives?Mary Midgley addresses these provocative questions in her most... |
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