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I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons

Thomas Cathcart - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious new exploration of philosophy through cartoons from the duo who brought you the New York Times bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar...Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klien have been thinking deep thoughts and writing jokes for decades, and now they are here to help us understand...
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Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World

MIKE BROOKS - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable. And while these dangers exist, there is a much more common and subtle way that technology can cause harm: by eroding our attention...
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Stephen King and Philosophy

Jacob M. Held - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Semetary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for over forty years. His characters have...
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves

Kate T Parker - Workman
Format: Print book

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls...
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Paul Bloom - Ecco
Format: Print book

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and familyMost people, including many policy makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers,...
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939

Volker Ullrich - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures...
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How to Fix a Broken Heart (TED Books)

Dr Guy Winch - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover

Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted.Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing...
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I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche

Sue Prideaux - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts - the bermensch, the will to power, slave morality - have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what...
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

Christopher Blattman - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A seasoned peacebuilder and acclaimed expert on violence explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war and how to interrupt that deadly processIt's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions...
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost...
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