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Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War
Peachy Keenan - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Spot-on, often satirical, always insightful, contributing editor of The American Mind and mother of a brood, Peachy Keenan argues that the only way we can save our families, ourselves, and the world - even California! - is by embracing our inner domestic extremists, and sweeping failed... |
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Reality : Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
David J. Chalmers - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it.Virtual reality is genuine reality; that's the central thesis of Reality . In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chalmers... |
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Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology
Steven M. Cahn - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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In Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Steven M. Cahn brings together exceptionally clear recent essays by noted philosophers and supplements them with influential historical sources. The articles have been carefully edited to make them understandable to every reader. The readings... |
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The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
Clare Carlisle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage.. In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot -- an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel.... |
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What We Owe the Future
WILLIAM MACASKILL - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that." - Ezra KleinAn Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"... |
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
KEVIN YOUNG - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take the center stage of American culture?Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers -- from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk... |
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity - and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating.... |
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