• Rok vydání 2005

In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate - it is certainly only very…

Features the world's most renowned critical theorist - who defined the field of postcolonial studies - and has radically…

The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense…

• Rok vydání 2011

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often…

\nThis book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project and an astute introduction to the neglected…

Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? The author reveals what…

• Rok vydání 2007

Envy, irritation, paranoia - in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of…

A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies…

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes…

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China\'s high-stakes college…

• Rok vydání 2012

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on…

• Rok vydání 2024

The inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in…

Adam Sandel revives one of the oldest philosophical questions: What constitutes a good life? Drawing on thinkers ancient and…

• Rok vydání 2022

Human space journeys are awe-inspiring but risky and immensely expensive. Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees argue that…

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• Rok vydání 2016

Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our…

\nThe root of democratic decline is insecurity, not inequality. Antidemocrats across the globe feel differently about…

• Rok vydání 2015

In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the…

• Rok vydání 2012

In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial…

• Rok vydání 2016

What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment,…

• Rok vydání 2011

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great…

This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of 'Gnosticism' and the nature of…

• Rok vydání 2016

From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of…

• Rok vydání 1993

Argues that the idea of the mind as an "information processor" has led psychology away from seeing the mind as a creator of…

• Rok vydání 2010

If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship…

• Rok vydání 2005

As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and…

• Rok vydání 2003

Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to…

An economist challenges an emerging orthodoxy: the idea that the best way to alleviate poverty is simply to give people…

\nExploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are…

Offers a comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. This title explains why we tell stories,…

In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were…

Usually when we\'re bored, we try to distract ourselves. But soon enough, boredom returns. James Danckert and John Eastwood…

• Rok vydání 1990

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert…

• Rok vydání 2018
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In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been…

• Rok vydání 2017

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable…

• Rok vydání 2021

New technologies are shaking the foundations of traditional finance. Leading economist Eswar Prasad foresees the end of…

• Rok vydání 2015

Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common…

In Thinking with Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers one of today s leading philosophers of science goes straight to the beating…

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BCE and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by…

• Rok vydání 2017

Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had…

\nDavid Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at…

Does disgust bring order and meaning to lives? Does it help to animate the world, and make it a more dangerous, magical and…

• Rok vydání 2011

These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization,…

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• Rok vydání 2011

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do…

• Rok vydání 2014

The international bestseller that has helped millions of students, teachers, and lifelong learners use proven approaches to…

• Rok vydání 2004

A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book…