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Author
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Brian Roper refreshes our understanding of democracy using a Marxist theoretical framework. He traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy in Europe and North America, through to the global spread of democracy during the past century.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"In recent years the engagement between the environmental 'agenda' and mainstream political theory has become increasingly widespread and profound. Each has affected the other in palpable and important ways, and it makes increasing sense for political theorists in each camp to engage with one another. This book draws together the threads of this interconnecting enquiry in order to assess its status and meaning. Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley have...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In "Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life," David Bahnsen makes the case that our understanding of work and its role in our lives is deeply flawed--we are unmoored from what he calls "created purpose." He argues that the time has come to stop tip-toeing around the issues that matter, that separating one's identity from what they do is demonstrably false, and that this era of alienation is for many a direct result of a low view of work. It is in...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Imaginations are unique to every human on earth and René Descartes believed that is what makes every person their own true self. By thinking about what we imagine and how all people imagine differently, kids can work on understanding others' perspectives and points of view and become more empathetic." -- Amazon.com
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Series
Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Tai Chi Concepts and Experiments book clarifies and makes accessible critical aspects of the art that only a small number of high-level practitioners currently understand and manifest. Numerous step-by-step experiments are provided for readers to experience and perfect these critical tai chi aspects.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this global introduction to philosophy of religion you begin not with a single tradition, but with religious philosophies from East Asia, South Asia, West Africa, and Native North America, alongside the classical Abrahamic and modern European traditions. Matching this diversity of traditions, chapters are organized around questions that acknowledge there is no single understanding of any god or ultimate reality. Instead you approach six different...
16) The Prophet
Author
Publisher
Author's Republic
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing you are my life."
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror." KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet is a book of twenty six simple prose fables written in by the fabled Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf and is Gibran's...
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror." KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet is a book of twenty six simple prose fables written in by the fabled Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf and is Gibran's...
17) Today
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When a child anticipates a long-awaited day with cousins and grandparents, the child discovers every day is filled with surprises and joy, which can easily be lost if one is not present.
18) An emancipation of the mind: radical philosophy, the war over slavery, and the refounding of America
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about a dangerous idea--one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement--the idea that all men are created equal. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist...