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Stillpoint: Reflections From A Year On The Cliff is the third book of short stories from Grammy-winning producer and award-winning writer, Barrett Martin. Building on his previous books, The Singing Earth (2017) and The Way Of The Zen Cowboy (2019), Martin delivers Stillpoint, a collection of 18 short stories penned in a remote cliff house inside a wildlife refuge overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca, between Washington State and British Columbia....
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"El estatuto del saber histórico en el campo de la educación no se agota en una historia historiográficamente correcta, detallada, llena de fuentes de archivo y con notas a pie de página bien hechas y consistentes. Carlos Noguera, con su trabajo, nos recuerda que los momentos de síntesis y la gran narración acompañan al saber educativo como un fantasma, y que la audacia intelectual vinculada con este tipo de ejercicios no desmiente la historiografía...
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For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning science writer, specializes in making its wonders accessible to the everyday reader.
This book uses lively prose, metaphors, and anecdotes to allow us to comprehend the nuances of physics: gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. It also shows us how the physical world is so deeply intertwined...
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"Dans les conditions intellectuelles o se trouve actuellement le monde occidental, la métaphysique y est chose oubliée, ignorée en général, perdue à peu près entièrement, tandis que en Orient, elle est toujours l'objet d'une connaissance effective. Si l'on veut savoir ce qu'est la métaphysique, c'est donc à l'Orient qu'il faut s'adresser"
Retranscrit à partir d'une conférence donnée à La Sorbonne en 1925, cet essai vise à clarifier...
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Do you want to know who you really are? What is your personal meaning of existence?Embark on a transformative journey to uncover your true essence and embrace the principles of existential therapy.Explore the rich philosophical roots of existential psychotherapy and find your path to personal authenticity.From the dialogues of Socrates to the teachings of Nietzsche and the brilliant minds of the 20th century, the foundations of existential philosophy...
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The Media does not know what democracy is. Indeed our societies have, for the most part, forgotten the meaning of democracy. Democracy is not a state form. Democracy is a mode of foundationless existential living. As such, it needs the kind of attention, which our self-satisfied media institutions, riven with complacent journalistic practices and corrupted by institutional privilege, are incapable of. We need to sweep away The Media to allow existential...
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"Winner of the 2009 Joseph B. Gittler Award, American Philosophical Association" Samuel Fleischacker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His books include A Short History of Distributive
Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics...
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The 'Occult Trilogy' is the collective label applied to Colin Wilson's three major works on the occult: The Occult (1971); Mysteries: an Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural (1978) and Beyond the Occult (1988). They amounted to a monumental 1600 pages and have spawned many other lesser works.
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There is an interesting correlation between the evolution of linguistic philosophy during the last centuries and the development of Greek philosophy during the time of Plato and Aristotle. During roughly the same historical period in China, philosophers were debating similar philosophical issues. In what ways does our use of language impact the way, we (ought to) live together? The ideas of Confucius ultimately rose to prominence, particularly after...
6990) Embracing Our Finitude: Exercises in a Christian Anthropology between Dependence and Gratitude
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Memento mori--remember death--this is how the medieval monks exhort us. Our life, given in birth and taken by death, is radically marked by finitude, which can be a source of great fear and anguish. Our finitude, however, does not in itself need to be something negative. It confronts us with the question of our life's meaning and spurs us on to treasure our days. Our contingency, as evidenced in our birth and death, reminds us that we have not made...
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Ante los procesos acelerados de destrucción del planeta y de sometimiento de la vida en condiciones indignas, la esperanza reclama un lugar central. La necesidad de la esperanza se puede expresar como la urgencia por definir el modo materializar la idea de un mundo mejor, cómo hacer que los hechos sustenten el discurso.
El presente texto plantea un abordaje de la esperanza como un componente necesario para la construcción de una vida digna. Para...
6992) Framing Theory's Empire
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As the Theory Era draws to a close, we need more than ever intelligent rumination and debate over what it all meant. THEORY'S EMPIRE was an important step in that direction. Framing THEORY'S EMPIRE carries on the conversation with sophistication and flair.
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A woman sacrifices her children to save herself in an act of desperation. A political prisoner succumbs to his worst fears in a struggle to survive. A politician disappears in the midst of a reelection campaign only to be replaced by a cockroach who has assumed his likeness.
Letters from Inside is a collection of stories that defy logic and yet tap into unrecognized truths about modern society: a twenty-first century vision of existential dysphoria....
6994) Essais vagabonds: Essai
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Selon Naomie Decompte, l'amour est un sentiment élogieux connu universellement. Pourtant, il est encore difficile, de nos jours, d'en comprendre le réel sens et d'en ressentir la vraie pureté. Elle estime que l'on croit bien souvent y être confronté tout au long de nos journées, mais le vrai amour est celui que l'on ne rencontre que rarement.
Avec Essais vagabonds, elle nous fait voyager dans ses conclusions, au milieu des sentiments l'ayant...
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Ce n'est qu'à une époque relativement récente qu'on a vraiment commencé à s'intéresser à l'histoire de la logique. Jusqu'au milieu du XIXe siècle régnait en effet l'idée que la logique n'avait pas d'histoire, étant, pour l'essentiel, sortie « close et achevée » de l'esprit d' Aristote. Le renouveau de la logique depuis 1850 environ a peu à peu permis de replacer Aristote dans une perspective historique.
6996) Technology And Justice
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In six magnificent essays, George Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped the way we live now. Admirers of Grant's English-Speaking Justice will welcome this exploration of the fate of traditional values in modern education, social behaviour, and religion, as well as Grant's penetrating insights into the technology of birth.
6997) Pónticas
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Publio Ovidio Nasón (43 a. C.-17 d. C.) es uno de los poetas capitales de la literatura latina. Nacido en Sulmona, demostró desde siempre una extraordinaria facilidad para versificar, lo cual le llevó a ser muy prolífico y cultivar con éxito diversos géneros. Fue poeta de moda entre sus contemporáneos, hasta que una repentina decisión del emperador Augusto lo condenó a vivir desterrado en Tomos, una ciudad en los confines del imperio, a orillas...
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Exciting, hands-on approach to understanding fundamental underpinnings of modern arithmetic, algebra, geometry and number systems, by examining their origins in early Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek sources. Students can do division like the ancient Egyptians, solve quadratic equations like the Babylonians, and more.
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"Winner of the 2001 American Political Science Association's Best First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section" S. Sara Monoson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Classics at Northwestern University.
In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow...
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This book explains how the entire universe can be created using just two ingredients: nothing at all and the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). Why would you need anything else? Nothing else could do the job. Existence, believe it or not, is just dimensionless mathematical points moving according to the PSR. Come and find out how the PSR accomplishes it.
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