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61) The Tao of physics: an exploration of the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism
Author
Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
62) Eating animals
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, "Eating Animals" explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits--from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth--and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 21
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Problems of Philosophy, published in 1912, is an introductory book for a beginner in philosophical studies. In this book, the author attempts to provoke a discussion by posing different problems.
The book covers a wide variety of theories proposed by philosophers like Plato, Descartes, Hume, Aristotle, etc. In view of these theories, Russell
...Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?".
"As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in Time Maps, we cannot answer questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past. In a pioneering attempt to map the structure of our...
Author
Publisher
Wapner & Brent Books, a publishing project of the Institute for Publishing Arts, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This new translation of the Chinese classic and foundation text of Daoism integrates the manuscript discoveries of the last 30 years, introducing a fundamentally different view of the nature of the Dao. Michael Puett, the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, calls this translation "an excellent translation of one of the most important texts from the Chinese philosophical...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What is democracy, really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a 'New Civil Rights Leader' by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money campaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and for...
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