Mind & Body

As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Here, he investigates the history of this age-old condition. Humans have struggled to define,...

Is free will an illusion? Is addiction a brain disease? Should we enhance our brains beyond normal? Neuroethics blends philosophical analysis with modern brain science to address these and other critical questions through captivating cases. The result is...

Originally published in 1929, McDougall examines the pertinent conflict between religion and science. His work exhibits the failure of scientists to explain human action mechanistically (the essence of modern materialism), establishes purposive action as...

This Element provides a thorough overview of the free will debate as it currently stands. After distinguishing the main senses of the term 'free will' invoked in that debate, it proceeds to set out the prominent versions of the main positions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039614Author Ryan T. AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835840061Author Nirushan SivanesanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Rowanvale BooksPublisher Rowanvale Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979074431Author Marcel KuijstenFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Julian Jaynes SocietyPublisher Julian Jaynes SocietyWeight(grams) 152g

Learn how to use the tools of dowsing: angle rods, divining rods, pendulums, wands, and even your own hands and body. Then go on to discover the techniques successful dowsers use to find what they're seeking. The detailed explanation of map dowsing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528714730Author Kahlil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

'An excellent book' - Ted Honderich, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UCL) Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history...

"The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis" is a ground-breaking, practical, step-by-step guide to harnessing the power of your unconscious mind. Using a structured and unique methodology, this book shows you how absolutely anyone can enter hypnosis easily, how to be...

Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on "technologies of the self." He described it as "composed of different papers about the self...,about the role of reading and writing in constituting the self... and so...

Heidegger's lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1936 on Schelling's Treatise On Human Freedom came at a crucial turning point in Heidegger's development. He had just begun his study to work out the term "Ereignis." Heidegger's...

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green calls on classical sources like Plato and Descartes, 20th-century thinkers like Freud, recent developments...

In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.ReviewsDensely argued, erudite and rich in examples from both art and science...Scientific Representation is both...

The Engaged Intellect collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological. It is typical of...

Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.About the AuthorAfter receiving a PhD in cultural anthropology from Syracuse University, Dr. Ernest Becker (1924-1974) taught at...

In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, free will...

Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to...

One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization "These impassioned pages require and reward very close...

Does your life have a purpose? Is there a meaning to your existence? The sole purpose of Your Simple Path is to ask you to consider what is really important to you in your life, what really matters? Starting with a look at the mundane and yet crazy...

Winner - 2012 International Book AwardFinalist - 2012 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord MagazineHonorable Mention - 2013 Eric Hoffer Award Within these pages, you will discover traditional karate; along the way, perhaps many of your own beliefs about...

An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.About the AuthorRobert C. Solomon, (1942-2007), was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the...

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (including mountains, trees, humans, and sculptures, and their characteristic properties) which depend on, yet...

A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today "Schaffner finds more in contemporary self-improvement literature to admire than criticize. . . . [A]...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450555326Author NorFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools - theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning - to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows...

The current fascination with Celtic Christianity is the latest manifestation of a lingering love affair stretching back over the last 1300 years. This book explores how the native Christian communities of the British Isles from the fifth to the tenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309445Author Richard FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

How to Change Your Body provides an enlightening discourse on the missing piece of the mind-body relationship - our need for social connection. What if symptoms from some of our most common afflictions-everything from depression and anxiety to addiction...

The Oxford Companion to the Mind,edited by Richard L. Gregory, is a classic. Published in 1987, to huge acclaim, it immediately took its place as the indispensable guide to the mysteries - and idiosyncracies - of the human mind. In no other book can the...

During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614291527Author Ajahn Buddhadasa BhikkhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously...

Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our embodied experience with our global connectivity? How...

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should go about explaining the behaviour of...

Leading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct...

Philosophy has come to seem like a specialist interest with little or no influence on our lives. On the contrary, argues James Tartaglia, it was the philosophy of materialism which taught us to turn from the gods to seek practical assistance from the...

What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across divisions that a legacy of injustice has created?...

There are no statues. Or rocks. Or chairs. Or stars. But there are microscopic objects arranged statuewise and rockwise and chairwise and starwise. Moreover, there are--in addition to microscopic objects arranged humanwise--composite human beings. Or so...