This book is the first full-length treatment of the philosophical problem of fatalism, the thesis that the laws of logic alone suffice to prove that no person ever acts freely. After a critical exa...więcej »
In this work about a land of two dimensions we have at once social satire, as pointed today as when it was written, and insights into theoretical science. The author, posing as a square inhabitant ...więcej »
The idea of transferring humans into humanoid bodies has been the theme for many eminent titles. This book's unique contribution is its exploration of the legal ques...więcej »
Foundations of Economics: A Christian View is an introduction to economics from an explicitly Christian perspective. It maintains that there is no conflict between Christian doctrine and economic s...więcej »
Justice has been the dominant cultural framework of people in the West for two centuries, ever since the rise of constitutional democracies. Consciously or not, most people in the West have a st...więcej »
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The evergreen debate over government's involvement in business continues in earnest. Participants straddle all stakeholder groups, from the state itself to ...więcej »
Grow Damn It! is a captivating work by Cheryl Oreglia, who uses uncommon honesty and arresting humor to draw you into her cantankerous life, forty-year marriage, and revolving empty nes...więcej »
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and r...więcej »
Growing Up Lonely is derived from papers presented at the 2018 symposium, “Loneliness and the Power of Permanency,” attended by more than four hundred mental health professi...więcej »
"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to e...więcej »
The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother go...więcej »
An original vision for redefining American manhood in an age of anxiety and an era of socioeconomic change, Heroic Fraternities examines the impact of the ""frat film"" genre (invented by Animal Ho...więcej »
An expansive alternative for those who have struggled with the "higher power" of AA's 12-step program, Higher and Friendly Powers offers a sense of human decency, moral ideals, and even...więcej »
A college professor tells students how to get the most out of college.
Giving advice that reads like a personal letter to high school and college students, Professor Jacob Neusner discusses:
- Ho...więcej »
Whether selling, managing, negotiating, planning, collaborating, pitching, instructing-or on your knees with a marriage proposal-the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. Now ...więcej »
"Illmatic Consequences is a bold intervention in the mushrooming field of Hip Hop Studies. The anthology uses Critical Race Theory lenses to theorize political, class, scientific, spatial an...więcej »
Illusions, Dystopias ' Monsters: How the Truths Of Our Time May Be Stranger Than Fiction is a unique, captivating and thoroughly disturbing book. The author, Kermit Heartsong, explores ...więcej »
“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important – if not the most important – phenomena of modern capitalist economy.”więcej »