- Table View
- List View
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
by William BlumA highly personal and candid memoir by a former U.S. State Department employee who became a radical dissident in the 1960s and remains active in opposing U.S. imperialism
Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings
by David J. ChalmersA collection of articles ranging from Descartes to the present, covering the major issues and controversies in the philosophy of mind.
An Invitation to Philosophy
by Nicholas Capaldi Eugene Kelly Luis E. NaviaSurvey of Western philosophy with a chapter on Oriental philosophy included.
Back to Gridlock: Governance in the Clinton Years
by James L. SundquistEighteen essays on the operation of government in 1995.
Black Students, Middle Class Teachers
by Jawanza KunjufuA compelling look at the relationship between the majority of African American students and their teachers.
The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics
by J. A. K. Thomson Hugh TredennickThe system which Aristotle expounds and advocates in the Nicomachean Ethics stands as one of the most celebrated and influential of moral philosophies. Since its construction in the fourth century B.C. it has had a profound and lasting effect: by later philosophers it has been fervently embraced and critically rejected, but never coldly ignored; and in certain crucial respects it has helped to shape and mould the common moral consciousness.
Queen and Country: The Fifty-Year Reign of Elizabeth II
by William ShawcrossDescribes the public persona of the Queen
Direct Democracy: The Politics of Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
by Thomas E. CroninBallot democracy, populist democracy, democracy by initiative, referendum, and recall-however one labels it-is only one hundred years old in the United States and has been in and out of fashion during that time. At the writing of this book there was a resurgence of interest in new kinds of forces trying to overturn legislative and executive fiat by direct ballot. In this book Thomas Cronin suggests why this is so, how it is working, and what should be done.
Rationality in Action
by John R. SearleThe study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls the Classical Model of rationality and shows why they are false.
Philosophical Thinking An Introduction
by Monroe C. Beardsley Elizabeth Lane BeardsleyThe titles of the major parts of this philosophy book are: I. Philosophy of Religion, II. The Existence of God, III. Immorality and the Problem of Evil, IV. Faith and Reason, V. Perception, VI. Empirical Knowledge, VII. Necessary Truth, VIII. Meaning and Intuition, IX. The Physical World, X. Living Matter, XI. Human Nature, XII. Ethical Judgment.
We're Never Alone
by Eileen L. GuderA HEALTHY WOMAN IN A SICK CULTURE... Who is she? What keeps her going? This one well-adjusted woman uses scripture to tell what the feminine role is--or should be. She faces the questions of every woman... her frustrations, her captive existence, her personal, emotional and spiritual feelings--and how she can harness and direct her characteristics into a meaningful lifestyle.
Waging War On Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws and Documents
by Brian R. Dirck Charles L. ZeldenLegal analysis of problems associated with the waging of war by this Nation.
The Really Hard Problem
by Owen FlanaganHonorable Mention, Philosophy category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. If consciousness is the "hard problem" in mind science--explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity--then the "really hard problem," writes Owen Flanagan in this provocative book is explaining how meaning is possible in the material world. How can we make sense of the magic and mystery of life naturalistically, without an appeal to the supernatural? How do we say truthful and enchanting things about being human if we accept the fact that we are finite material beings living in a material world, or, in Flanagan's description, short-lived pieces of organized cells and tissue? Flanagan's answer is both naturalistic and enchanting. We all wish to live in a meaningful way, to live a life that really matters, to flourish, to achieve eudaimonia--to be a "happy spirit." Flanagan calls his "empirical-normative" inquiry into the nature, causes, and conditions of human flourishing eudaimonics.Eudaimonics,systematic philosophical investigation that is continuous with science, is the naturalist's response to those who say that science has robbed the world of the meaning that fantastical, wishful stories once provided. Flanagan draws on philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and psychology, as well as on transformative mindfulness and self-cultivation practices that come from such nontheistic spiritual traditions as Buddhism, Confucianism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism, in his quest. He gathers from these disciplines knowledge that will help us understand the nature, causes, and constituents of well-being and advance human flourishing. Eudaimonicscan help us find out how to make a difference, how to contribute to the accumulation of good effects--how to live a meaningful life.
Mind Transformer
by PriyadarshiniiPriyadarshinii Was a certified master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She did her Master's in Business Administration from Singapore. She worked as a business executive for 2 years in Transasia Biomedical Ltd Mumbai. After which, she worked as a success coach for School of Excellence. Since 2011, Priyadarshinii was suffering from a rare & incurable disease called MPGN-2 which leads to loss of vision, mobility, motor functions & eventually ... life. After fighting a long battle with her incurable disease Priyadarshinii's inspirational soul departed for heavenly aboard in August . She coached more than 500 clients to be successful in their goals, be it their career, relationship, finance, health, personality, etc.
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
by Ayn RandAyn Rand regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature that man cannot survive alone with. She sets forth the moral principles of objectivism as the philosophy that holds man's life as the standard of moral values.
The Great Philosophers, First Edition
by Radoslav A. TsanoffThe Great Philosophers, First Edition contains four parts: Part 1. The Philosophers of Classical Antiquity; Part 2. The Doctors and Saints of Medieval Christian; Philosophy; Part 3. The Earlier Modern Philosophers; Part 4. The Philosophers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Kant Selections
by Theodore Meyer GreeneAn antique book, republished, on the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant , an eminent philosopher.
John Locke: A Biography
by Maurice CranstonThis is a biography of John Locke who died in 1704. The author has written the biography based on Lovelace Collection as principal source which contained nearly three thousand letters and about a thousand miscellaneous manuscripts. These include accounts, which, because Locke was always careful with money, are unusually detailed; library lists; notebooks containing entries on philosophy, politics, literature, science, theology, economics and colonial administration; several more elaborate manuscripts on the same subjects; recipes, inventories, certificates of various kinds, and ten volumes of Locke's journal.