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To recreate a whole and sacred America, it is important to piece together the forgotten fragments of history that are currently keeping the country divided. Just as a traditional Native American potter begins a new pot with shards of old pots?honoring the ancestors, bringing the energies of the past into the present?Original Politics re-constellates the nation as a whole out of the seemingly disparate shards from our origins. The most significant...
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InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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159 pages cm
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"Philosophy is not a closed club or a secret society. It's for anyone who thinks big questions are worth talking about. To get us started, Douglas Groothuis unpacks seven pivotal sentences from the history of western philosophy?a few famous, all short, none trivial. Included are: "The unexamined life is not worth living."?Socrates -- "You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."?Augustine -- "I think, therefore...
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Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Pub. Date
[2009]
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439 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"Major Works is the finest single-volume anthology of influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's important writings. Featuring the complete texts of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books: Studies for 'Philosophical Investigations,' and On Certainty, this new collection selects from the early, middle, and later career of this revolutionary thinker, widely recognized as one of the most profound minds of all time."--Amazon.com.
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2023.
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What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views...
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"Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world"--Jacket.
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
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xxiv, 335 pages ; 25 cm
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"Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, to understand our origins and the meaning of our lives. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative...
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Carol Wall, a white woman living in Middle America, was at a crossroads in her life. Her children were grown; she had overcome illness; her parents were getting older. One day she notices a dark-skinned African man tending her neighbor's yard. Giles Owita bags groceries at the supermarket. He comes from Kenya. And he's very good at gardening. Before long Giles is transforming not only Carol's yard, but her life.
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2009
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x, 245 p. ; 22 cm.
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A nationally syndicated talk radio host and author of Rescuing Sprite presents a volume of essays for today's conservative leaders that recommends specific approaches to such issues as immigration, health care, and foreign policy.
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DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
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352 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., charts ; 25 cm.
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Explains the history of philosophy and demystifies some of its most hard-to-grasp concepts. This is done by arranging the philosophers in chronological order from 700 BCE and Thales of Miletus to the present and Slavoj Zizek
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
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xxvi, 322 p. ; 22 cm.
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Identifies an interconnectedness between the brain and matter to reveal how the key to life is in the relationship between things and outlines a scientific paradigm that can be applied practically to improve society and the planet.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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208 pages
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"Before the discovery of quarks, we hadn't imagined anything smaller than protons and neutrons. Are quarks the end of the line, the smallest imaginable objects in nature? Can the universe be divided into infinitely smaller units in the same way the universe is ever-expanding? Alan Lightman explores these questions in his characteristic accessible and lyrical prose, considering the igniting element behind consciousness, the origin of life, the anatomy...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009
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310 p. ; 25 cm.
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Draws on a broad range of scientific evidence to theorize an evolutionary basis for religion, considering how religion may have served as an essential component of early society survival and that the brain may be inherently inclined toward religious behavior.
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Distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2009
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62 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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An introduction to philosophy which uses clear analogies to explore some of life's biggest moral and scientific questions, including the origins of the universe and the meaning of life.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2011
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vii, 487 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause...
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