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The Performer: Art, Life, PoliticsAn acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than...
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The Modal FutureA study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.Author: Fabrizio CarianiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/05/2023Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67dISBN: 9781108465472
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery2024 Hardcover Reprint of Original 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science presented a striking new picture of the logical character of scientific discovery--a picture which...
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The Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual JourneyAn intimate mystery encompasses you and tugs upon your heart--what does it mean to follow that tug across the arc of a spiritual life? Reflecting out of more than fifty years of practice in Zen Buddhism, Unitarian Universalism, and other contemplative traditions, James Ishmael...
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The Forbidden Fruit Or The Forbidden Truth..in The Bible?The author is a Foundational Born American (FBA), meaning his parents did not immigrate to our country. His lineage predates the U.S. Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and The Civil War, and can be traced back to the first segregated Census taken in 1860,...
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The Epistemology of Reading and InterpretationAuthor: René Van WoudenbergPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 10/19/2023Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53dISBN: 9781009016360This title is not returnable
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The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on ReasoningAuthor: Catarina Dutilh NovaesPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/11/2022Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781108790925This title is not returnable
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The Cambridge History of Moral PhilosophyWith fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic...
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The Cambridge Descartes LexiconThe Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, "the father of modern philosophy" and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key...
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The Cambridge Companion to the SophistsThe Classical Greek sophists - Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others - are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and philosophical reflection at the time of Socrates. They are also some of the most controversial: what...
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The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human ExperienceIn The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes--rather than ignores or tries not to see--humanity's lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. They...
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The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of LanguageThis book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally linked to one's identity and basic practices of existence, offering a rigorous alternative to treating autism as a...
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The Arrière-PaysSince the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar years. At last, we have the long-awaited English translation of Yves Bonnefoy's celebrated work, L'Arri re-pays, which takes us to the...
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Susan StebbingSusan Stebbing (1885-1943), the UK's first female professor of philosophy, was a key figure in the development of analytic philosophy. Stebbing wrote the world's first accessible book on the new polyadic logic and its philosophy. She made major contributions to the philosophy of science,...
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Social Work Values and EthicsFor decades, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics as the leading introduction to ethical decision making, dilemmas, and professional conduct in practice. A case-driven, concise, and comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate social work programs, this...
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RiskFrom the co-publisher of acclaimed poetry press Omnidawn, Risk engages directly with limitations, both those that structure the literal form of the poems and literary form and those that are both unavoidable and self-inflicted.In Risk, award-winning poet Rusty Morrison uses a constraining form of...
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Quaker MinimsThese Minims are meant to be a comfort, in that if they come from the right place, some of them will resonate within the worship experience for you, confirming a true and gentle life-way or path we travel together in the face of the...
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Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of AntiquityA definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350...
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Plato's Sun-Like GoodAn original and lucid discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relationship to the form of the good.Author: Sarah BroadiePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/16/2023Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53dISBN: 9781009016407
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Plato of Athens: A Life in PhilosophyConsidered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his...
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