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On What Matters, Vol. 1
Derek Parfit · Oxford University Press
Pages: 592
Format: Book
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On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical... |
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Latina/o American Health and Mental Health: Practices and Challenges
Leticia Arellano-Morales Ph.D. · Praeger
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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Essential reading for health and mental health administrators, community agencies, and policy makers as well as students and general interest readers, this book details the state of the physical and mental health of many Latina/o American groups.* Examines the prevalence of psychological... |
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Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis
Benjamin Kunkel · Verso
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
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After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned. But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored outside of the academy. Benjamin... |
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Mark Twain and Philosophy
Alan H Goldman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Mark Twain, the "Father of American Literature," and renowned humorist, satirist, and commentator on humanity and American life, is best known for his classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's body of work, however, is expansive; from Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut... |
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Work That Works: Emergineering a Positive Organizational Culture
Geil Browning · Wiley
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Use cognitive diversity to your advantage and transform your organization Work That Works is a guide to building better teams and an exceedingly positive workplace culture. Based on the tools and principles of Emergenetics, this book helps you improve communication, connection, and performance... |
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Plugged In: How Media Attract and Affect Youth
Patti M Valkenburg · Yale University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating study of the complex relationship between children and media in the digital age Now, as never before, young people are surrounded by media - thanks to the sophistication and portability of the technology that puts it literally in the palms of their hands. Drawing on data... |
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Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger / Edition 1
Peter Sloterdijk · Polity
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten book. That is why the texts presented here, which sketch a philosophical physiognomy of Martin Heidegger, should also be characterized as a collected renunciation of exhaustiveness. In order... |
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I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
David Shields · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art-cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls) . David Shields always wanted... |
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True Detective and Philosophy: A Deeper Kind of Darkness
Jacob Graham · Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Investigating the trail of philosophical leads in HBO's chilling True Detective series, an elite team of philosophers examine far-reaching riddles including human pessimism, Rust's anti-natalism, the problem of evil, and the 'flat circle'. The first book dedicated to exploring... |
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Philosophy in Minutes
Marcus Weeks · Quercus
Format: Book
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Philosophy in Minutes distills 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections.The core information for every topic - including debates such as the role of philosophy in science and religion, key thinkers from Aristotle to Marx, and introductions... |
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
Gish Jen · Vintage
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
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As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What's more important - self-sacrifice or self-definition? Do we ultimately answer to something larger than ourselves - a family, a religion, a troop? Or is our mantra "To thine own self be true"?... |
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Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
Edmund Fawcett · Princeton University Press
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many... |
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It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with
Winifred M Reilly · Touchstone
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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With a focus on self-empowerment and resilience, this refreshing and witty relationship guide has a reassuring counterintuitive message for unhappy spouses: you only need one partner to initiate far-reaching positive change in a marriage.Conventional wisdom says that "it takes two"... |
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Veil
Rafia Zakaria · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of feminist empowerment, and veiled anonymity can confer power to women. Starting from her own marriage ceremony at which she first wore a full veil,... |
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