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Once solely the province of ivory tower professors and university classrooms, contemporary philosophy was emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing online, the column has attracted...

Mr. Robot has been hailed, not only as one of the most haunting and unnerving dramas ever to appear on television, but also as the first accurate popular presentation of how computer hacking and cyberterrorism actually work. Mr. Robot and Philosophy is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950192038Author Zafer Aracag kFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter...

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno...

In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants atop a swimming turtle, the sun goes around the world every day, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of...

Albert Schweitzer's social and ethical philosophy is best expressed in The Philosophy of Civilization. Not widely available in recent years, this edition will give contemporary readers the opportunity to discover his prophetic thought. In Book I, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036326Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 112mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061627019Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991652112Author Theodore DalrympleFormat PaperbackImprint New English Review PressPublisher New English Review Press

Twenty-one philosophers investigate the implications of the Jurassic Park franchise for our lives, our values, and our future. Human beings live and thrive by modifying nature, but when do the risks of changing nature outweigh the likely benefits? If...

Breaking Bad, hailed by Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and many others as the best of all TV dramas, tells the story of a man whose life changes because of the medical death sentence of an advanced cancer diagnosis. The show depicts his metamorphosis...

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This book brings together a collection of essays written by scholars inspired by Eugene Gendlin's work, particularly those interested in thinking with and beyond Gendlin for the sake of a global community facing significant crises. The contributors take...

'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051699Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 141g

Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN GODS and the prize-winning THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE.In May 2012, Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts...

The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which was released in the summer of 2010 has been universally well received. They had a cameo in the movie I...

A Beginner's Guide to Reality is an introduction to philosophy for people who don't read philosophy. Jim Baggott's sources range from Aristotle to The Matrix. He examines the major developments in Western philosophical thought on the nature of reality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999971861Author Tim LilburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Xylem BooksPublisher Xylem BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385096225Author John LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

A superb new edition of the essays of one of the greatest prose writers in EnglishDavid Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energised the English essay. His sceptical, rational, self-questioning persona created what amounted to a new intellectual arena, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398860698Author Frederich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416032556Author Salvador MasFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Plaza Y ValdesPublisher Plaza Y Valdes

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Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian nominalism, combinatorial possibility, and coherence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736930700Author Christopher DowFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Phosphene Publishing CompanyPublisher Phosphene Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357287662Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644453322Author Paul B PreciadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398851290Author PlatoFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 168mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513267777Author Francis BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357286979Author Arnold BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357287679Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"It is a troublesome and difficult task that philosophy has in hand when it undertakes to cure garrulousness. For the remedy, words of reason, requires listeners; but the garrulous listen to nobody, for they are always talking."Plutarch's essay takes on...

A series of philosophical meditations on the nature of aesthetics across a wide array of filmmaking styles Images, whether filmic or not, cannot be replaced by words. Yet words can make images. This is the general thesis underlying So What, a collection...