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Sun Tzu
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since tha... (Description from external book data)
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Ichiro Kishimi
The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness. Mar... (Description from external book data)
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Alistair Charles Rolls
Twenty-five years after his death, critics and academics, film-makers and journalists continue to argue over Sartre's legacy. But certain in... (Description from external book data)
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Alain De Botton
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouc... (Description from external book data)
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Steven Pinker
'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the s... (Description from external book data)
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Nick Srnicek
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are trans... (Description from external book data)
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Lynn Margulis
Transcending the various formal concepts of life, this captivating book offers a unique overview of life's history, essences, and future. "A... (Description from external book data)
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Alain De Botton
Anyone who s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton s irresistibly clear-h... (Description from external book data)
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Howard Bloom
A philosophical look at the history of our species which alternated between fascinating and frightening . . . like reading Dean Koontz or St... (Description from external book data)
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Ilya Prigogine
The Nobel laureate and founder of chaos theory challenges the accepted laws of nature, explaining why Einstein's belief that time is merely ... (Description from external book data)
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David S. Oderberg
Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of thi... (Description from external book data)
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David S. Oderberg
Moral Theory sets out the basic system used to solve moral problems, the system that consequentialists deride as 'traditional morality'. The... (Description from external book data)
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Liang Zhuge
Composed by two prominent statesmen-generals of classical China, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War , in... (Description from external book data)
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Ichiro Kishimi
The sequel to the global bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked, the Japanese phenomenon in applying twentieth-century psychology to contempo... (Description from external book data)
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John Portmann
Although many of us deny it, it is not uncommon to feel pleasure over the suffering of others, particularly when we feel that suffering has ... (Description from external book data)
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Valerie Tiberius
This is the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing students to a range of philosophical topics and debates such as: What... (Description from external book data)
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Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Sabina Lovibond
The first thorough exploration of Murdoch and gender, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is a fresh contribution to debates in feminist phi... (Description from external book data)
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Charles Sanders Peirce
This series contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief... (Description from external book data)
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Victor E. Taylor
Para/Inquiry represents the next generation of postmodern studies. Focusing on cultural studies religion, and literature, Victor E. Taylor p... (Description from external book data)
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Barbara Buckinx
Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving... (Description from external book data)
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David S. Oderberg
The Metaphysics of Good and Evil is the first, full-length contemporary defence, from the perspective of analytic philosophy, of the Scholas... (Description from external book data)
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Timothy O'Connor
An expansive, yet succinct, analysis of the Philosophy of Religion “ from metaphysics through theology. Organized into two sections, the tex... (Description from external book data)
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Fritz Allhoff
This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error. Given the complexities of understanding, prev... (Description from external book data)
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Tamler Sommers
In the first edition of A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain “ Nine Conversations, philosopher Tamler Sommers talked with an inter... (Description from external book data)
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Associate Professor of Political Science Samuel A Chambers
Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary proj... (Description from external book data)
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Kevin C. Elliott
Current Controversies in Values and Science asks ten philosophers to debate five questions (two philosophers per debate) that are driving co... (Description from external book data)
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Larry Alexander
Demystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers eng... (Description from external book data)
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Dean A. Kowalski
This new text/reader is the first major introduction to philosophy that incorporates movies as a key pedagogical element. Throughout the tex... (Description from external book data)
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Francesco Belfiore
In this revised edition, Belfiore adds new concepts and discusses the views of additional thinkers. He gives an ontological foundation to et... (Description from external book data)
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John Offer
This set traces Herbert Spencer's influence, from his contemporaries to the present day. Contributions come from across the social science d... (Description from external book data)
