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Rick, Lori, Shane, Carl, Dale, Andrea, and Michonne--human survivors of a zombie apocalypse--don't know much about philosophy, but philosophical ideas continue to shamble on through their world, and there's no excape from them. The Walking Dead is both...

By many accounts, HBO's The Wire was and remains the greatest and most important television drama of all time. Conceived by writers David Simon and ex-Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns, this five-season, sixty-episode tour de force has raised the bar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912142002Author Diego FusaroFormat HardbackImprint The Pertinent PressPublisher Whitelocke PublicationsWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

KISS is the most outrageous and yet the most enduring of rock bands, with an unparalleled, almost religious level of devotion from millions of die-hard fans. In KISS and Philosophy, professional thinkers of diverse outlooks provide much-needed insights...

In The Walking Dead, human beings are pushed to their limits by a zombie apocalypse and have to decide what really matters. Good and evil, freedom and slavery, when one life has to be sacrificed for another, even the nature of religion--all the ultimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692952368Author Warren F MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Clear and Convincing Evidence PublishingPublisher Clear and Convincing Evidence...

Since his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin's writings have generated continual interest among scholars and educated readers, especially in regard to his ideas about liberalism, value pluralism, and "positive" and "negative" liberty. Most books on Berlin have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916345164Author Sasha ZouevFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Zouev Elite PublishingPublisher Zouev Elite PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from AD 161 to 180, is renowned for his just rule at home and for his long frontier wars. But his lasting claim to fame rests on the work known as the Meditations - a bedside book of reflections and self-admonitions...

Oscar Wilde's famous quip 'All art is quite useless' might not be as outrageous or demonstrably false as is often supposed. No-one denies that much art begins life with practical aims in mind: religious, moral, political, propagandistic, or the...

This collection of articles by one of the leading philosophers of education in the English-speaking world takes up themes in the philosophy of language, epistemology and the philosophy of learning to shed light on philosophical puzzles concerning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062930835Author Erich FrommFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 175mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952671227Author Jafe ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Prav PublishingPublisher Prav PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473335592Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Thousand FieldsPublisher Thousand FieldsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Princess Bride is the 1987 satirical adventure movie that had to wait for the Internet and DVDs to become the most quoted of all cult classics. The Princess Bride and Philosophy is for all those who have wondered about the true meaning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994160256Author Adrian AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Threshold PublishingPublisher Threshold PublishingWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm)...

Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence-that our entire emotional and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725268364Author Thomas TalbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

There are common categories of conspiracy theories, variants of which pop up over and over again. These theories can be used to closely track people's most significant philosophical concerns. In this up-to-date study of conspiracy theories, the authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789081709101Author Jeremy FernandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint UitgeverijPublisher UitgeverijWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910881330Author Keith PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits are integral to narratives of the good life, to social norms and expectations, as well as to economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945955105Author Phil SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Autonomous PressPublisher Autonomous PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692715185Author David LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human Over the past decade, digital media has expanded exponentially, becoming an essential part of daily...

Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and...

An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance prospered. Like Confucius had done two centuries before him, Mencius wandered from state to state, lobbying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789144802Author Sarah E WorthFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993952746Author Giorgio BaruchelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Northwest Passage BooksPublisher Northwest Passage BooksWeight(grams)...

In Peanuts and Philosophy, twenty philosophers, from a diverse range of perspectives, look at different aspects of the Peanuts canon. How can the thoughts of children, who have yet to become grown-up, help us to become more grown up ourselves? Do we get...

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art,...

Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic. Philosophers of language and epistemologists join forces to elucidate what kind of speech act assertion is,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375750366Author Bryan MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Steve Jobs represents a whole range of values and ideas in pluralistic American culture. He was a barefoot hippy capitalist who did more to change our everyday lives than anyone since Thomas Edison. Coming from modest means and education, he...

Generations of readers have fallen in love with Jane Austen's timeless tales of eighteenth-century English life. Even casual readers comprehend that these classic novels are not just love stories. They offer keen insights into various aspects of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947623869Author Fred SchurinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

In Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles -- they're illegally produced clones, and someone is having them killed. Law enforcement is powerless to help. The clones are forced to form their own...

Provocative essays from one of America's most important cultural criticsThink Again gathers one hundred of the best of Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times essays, pieces that have generated passionate discussion and debate. Addressing controversies...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811201568Author Ezra PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...