Essays

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...

Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali, Washington...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955125499Author Joshua Dean RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Hat & BeardPublisher Hat & Beard

There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed to look to the celestial light. I am asking you to look at the finger. The...

First published in 1990 Philosophical Foundations of Health Education analyses the dogmatism of conventional medicine as a form of scientism and tries to determine the extent to which the state of health education has been perverted by an uncritical...

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...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a...

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First published in 1977, Emotion, Thought and Therapy is a study of Hume and Spinoza and the relationship of philosophical theories of the emotions to psychological theories of therapy. Jerome Neu argues that the Spinozists are closer to the truth; that...

In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramatico, Jorge Luis Borges, Maria Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing-a way of seeking...

First published in 1977, Philosophy and Practical Education attempts to relate philosophy with education. It deals with themes like school, discipline, authority, curriculum, subjects, autonomy etc. to 1) discuss topics which are necessarily of direct...

First published in 1937, The Philosophy of Relativity contains an exposition of Einstein, a step-by step deduction of the main equations of both the special and general theories of relativity. This book sets out to expound an original theory of events,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782357286962Author Arnold BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This book introduces readers to Thomistic philosophy through selected topics such as being, God, teleology, truth, persons and knowledge, ethics, and universals. John Peterson discusses metaphysics and the essence-existence distinction and presents what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881468618Author Sylvia WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University PressWeight(grams) 363g

Sidney Hook is considered by many to be America's most influential philosopher. An earlier defender of Marxism, he became its most persistent critic, especially of its totalitarian and revolutionary manifestations. A student of John Dewey's pragmatism,...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.' Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC-AD 65) is one of...

This collection gives voice to philosophers who are at odds with the predominant leftist political trends of academic philosophy. Essays detail personal experiences and reflections on the intellectual viability of a non-left-leaning political philosophy,...

Philosophy can transform your life. But the only philosophy that can save you is your own. Yet how do you find your own in an age of misinformation and unbridled spin, when truth is unfashionable and hype hyper-attractive. Where is the air needed to...

From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a...

Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and...

Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic...