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Everything matters! 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
Breakfast with Socrates: the philosophy of everyday life 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
The River of Winged Dreams The River of Winged Dreams Aberjhani *THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS* both continues the series established with *SONGS OF THE ANGELIC GAZE* and *THE BRIDGE OF SILVER WINGS*, and at the same time offers reading audiences something completel… OL15157654W
Rise up and Salute the Sun 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
El color del agua. La alfabetizacion en Paulo Freire El color del agua. La alfabetizacion en Paulo Freire Susana Zimmermann,Gabriella Bianco Excerpts: "Creo que la educacion es un esfuerzo de liberacion del hombre y no un instrumento mas para dominarlo". (Paulo Freire) OL15455824W
Agostino Agostino Giovanni Catapano Profilo del pensiero di Agostino di Ippona, suddiviso in nove capitoli: (1) I *Dialoghi*; (2) La confutazione del manicheismo; (3) Teoria e pratica dell'ermeneutica biblica; (4) Le *Confessiones*; (5… OL15730895W
The Spinoza problem 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 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
John Adams John Adams David McCullough In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared no… OL16459038W
Klady a zápory personalizmu v bioetike 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 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 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
Filosofía 10 Filosofía 10 Hugo Fernando Morales Ballesteros Enseñar y aprender a filosofar con competencias en el desarrollo de habilidades del pensamiento para la transformación de la vida tiene una doble meta: desentrañar los secretos del universo, descubri… OL17765537W
Spiritual Symbols 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
L'herbe du diable et la petite fumée L'herbe du diable et la petite fumée Carlos Castaneda 4ème de couverture (4th cover) : Arizona, 1961. Alors qu'il est étudiant en anthropologie de l'université de Los Angeles, Carlos Castaneda rencontre don Juan Matus, un indien Yaqui de la province … OL1884529W
Awakening Your Ikigai Awakening Your Ikigai Ken Mogi Part cultural exploration, part philosophy, all inspiring, this book explores the concept of "ikigai," a Japanese word that literally translates to "reason for living". More commonly, author and neur… OL20537524W
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle Jonas Ceika In *How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle*, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Čeika (aka CCK Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the twenty-first century. Leaving behind its past associat… OL25909756W
The alienation of reason The alienation of reason Leszek Kołakowski An account of the main stages of the positivist philosophical doctrine, around which is wrapped an interpretation and evaluation. OL3407265W
Enlightenment against empire Enlightenment against empire Sankar Muthu Describes the philosophies and arguments against Europe's imperial relation with the non-European world developed by pre-Enlightenment and early Enlightenment thinkers OL5960654W
Book of Pages Book of Pages David Whiteland It's a collection of observations on the modern world, made by following the journey of Jiriki, a simple monk from the mountains. The book is unusual, because (amongst other things) the main characte… OL8934510W
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