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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Everything matters!	Ron Currie, Jr.	"On the day that Junior Thibodeau is born, he learns the exact moment when the world will end: 36 years, 168 days, 14 hours, and 23 seconds into the future--pretty heavy news for a newborn. Knowledge…	OL13648939W
Human ontology narratives	Rakesh Biswas	The author creates a fictional conceptual model of a human that is visualized in physical form analogous to a notebook computer that hides an infinite backend process of cognition representing the hu…	OL13694768W
Breakfast with Socrates: the philosophy of everyday life	Robert Rowland Smith	A very ordinary day in the company of some extraordinary ideas. "What does it mean to be awake? What exactly is therapeutic about retail therapy? And what are you really working on when you're…	OL13854764W
Symbol and Icon	Filip Ivanovic	This book contributes to the study of the notions of symbol and icon by examining two phenomena that greatly contributed to their development: the thought of Dionysius the Areopagite and the iconocla…	OL15347993W
Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde describing disordered relationship between science and the …	Robert Louis Stevenson,Dr. Andrej Poleev	A conceptual book of metascience	OL15374185W
Rise up and Salute the Sun	Suzy Kassem	Suzy Kassem's *Rise Up and Salute the Sun* is a treasure everybody must read and share before they die. It is inspiring, very informative, liberating, and extremely cosmic.	OL15374198W
Ανθολόγιο Φιλοσοφικών Κειμένων Γ' Γυμνασίου	Αθανασία Γλυκοφρύδη-Λεοντσίνη,Σακελλίου Χριστίνα,Λεοντσίνη Ελένη	Teaching philosophy in greek highschool	OL15686115W
Sternentau	Kurd Laßwitz	Das Buch hat erstmal zwei Rahmenhandlungen. Eine spielt im Reich der Menschen, die andere im Pflanzenreich. Die Pflanzen können vermittels des Erdbodens miteinander kommunizieren. Dies wird jedoch ni…	OL15691178W
Readings in ancient Greek philosophy	S. Marc Cohen,Patricia Curd,C. D. C. Reeve	Soon after its publication, Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy was hailed as the favorite to become "the 'standard' text for survey courses in ancient philosophy. Nothing on the market touches i…	OL16113849W
The Spinoza problem	Irvin D. Yalom	The parallel stories of the philospher Benedictus Spinoza and the nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg exploring both philosophy and history.	OL16152962W
Here be Dragons	Maarten Boudry	Maarten Boudry: "This dissertation is an exploration of the hinterland of science and the strange ‘creatures’ dwelling there. In philosophical circles, the subject of pseudoscience has stirred relati…	OL16208369W
How Consciousness Creates Reality	Claus Janew	This book is written out of the desire to examine the structure of our reality from a standpoint unbiased by established teachings, be they academic-scientific, popular-esoteric, or religious in natu…	OL16684803W
Kant e la formazione dei concetti	Alberto Vanzo	How do we form concepts like those of three, bycicle and red? According to Kant, we form them by carrying out acts of comparison, reflection and abstraction on information provided by the senses. Kan…	OL16796043W
Klady a zápory personalizmu v bioetike	Daniel Democko	The aim of the thesis is to analyze personalism applied in bioethics both in its general ethical basis and in its dominant lines and to consider its pros and cons in bioethical practice, bioethical d…	OL16796135W
Plato the myth maker	Luc Brisson	The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and tel…	OL1699535W
Farewell To Reality	Jim Baggott	An argument that post-quantum theoretical physics has gone off the rails, producing at best unhelpful and fantastical metaphysics using unempirical and wildly speculative techniques.	OL17488832W
Spiritual Symbols	Nataša Pantović Nuit	Spiritual Symbols and their Meaning Symbols and signs are the languages of the soul. Symbols and signs are the language of dreams. Occultists believe that signs and symbols are given a supernatural …	OL17842623W
The body in question	Jonathan Miller	Fantastic look at how we came to discover the human body. This book is fun to read out loud as the prose is other worldly. Dr Miller looks at select systems (eg. blood, lungs, reproductive etc) in …	OL2018185W
Η ΕΠΟΧΗ ΤΩΝ ΜΑΓΩΝ	alexis karpouzos	Η αναγέννηση αναζητά τη θεμελίωση της ιστορικής αυτοσυνείδησής της στην αρχαϊκή προσωκρατική παράδοση, στον κλασικό ελληνικό κόσμο και κυρίως στο τέλος του, στο μετακλασικό, ελληνιστικό, εκλεκτικό κα…	OL20662336W
The Rudest Book Ever	Shwetabh Gangwar	For close to a decade, people from all over the world have contacted Shwetabh with their troubles and he has worked them out for them. But be warned: He has no desire to spare your feelings. He tells…	OL24350123W