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Barnes, the supervisor of a Hot Shot wildfire suppression crew, is haunted by the season past, when many members of his dedicated, young team were killed in a Colorado forest fire that went all wrong, scorching the Hot Shots as they fled, some as they struggled into their fire shelters. He wakes each morning in the presence of their ghosts as they proceed across his bedroom or assemble at his kitchen table, their eyes asking questions that he cannot...
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Psychology is frequently the most popular major on campus, but it can also be the most treacherous. In this guide, Daniel N. Robinson surveys the philosophical and historical roots of modern psychology and sketches the major schools and thinkers of the discipline. He also identifies those false prejudices-such as contempt for metaphysics and the notion that the mind can be reduced to the chemical processes of the brain-that so often perplex and mislead...
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"I've come to warn you. A cloud of darkness looms over the universe. An evil of old stirs in the shadows. The countdown to the destruction of everything has begun." Seventeen-year-old Jonathan Tomus isn't your typical teenage boy. He lives on a developing planet, on the outskirts of Union space. He lacks interest in the most basic aspects of high school life. He possesses little ambition for his future, except to ensure Laura-his only friend-and his...
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Imagine you are sitting in a lovely garden. It is in the early hours, when mist enshrouds the liminal space between night and day. Or, it may be in the cool of the evening, as a pallet of color begins to emerge just beyond the horizon. You are, drawn to quiet reflection and wish to express the musings of your heart in word or verse, in watercolor sketch or photographic image. Such was the experience of the authors of this invitation to spiritual formation...
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Lonely Planet's Israel & the Palestinian Territories is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience the breathtaking Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, float on the briny, invigorating Dead Sea, and explore cosmopolitan and vibrant Ramallah; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Israel & the Palestinian Territories and begin your journey now!
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Lonely Planet's Borneo is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, withrecommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Dive with sea turtles on the Semporna Archipelago, visit the water village of Kampung Ayer, or hang with the orangutans at Tanjung Puting National Park; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Consciousness, a unique and perplexing mental state, has been the subject of debate for philosophers and scientists for millennia. And while it is widely agreed within contemporary philosophy that consciousness is a problem whose solutions are likely to determine the fate of any number of other problems, there is no settled position on the ultimate nature of consciousness. This series of 12 penetrating and thought-provoking lectures by an acclaimed...
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Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University. He is Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University where he has lectured annually since 1991. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present and Aristotle's Psychology.
How should a prize be awarded after a horse race? Should it go to the best rider, the best person,...
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Virtually all of the major building blocks of our culture (law, government, religion, science, medicine, drama, architecture, and more) derived ultimately from the ancient Greeks. In these 12 lectures, you'll explore the continuing influence of the classical Greek achievement on contemporary life. The point is not the often tedious claim that there is nothing new under the sun. Rather, it is to underscore the remarkable continuity of the Greek perspective...
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 34
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The extraordinary documents written in support of the proposed constitution represent a profound legacy in political philosophy.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 49
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Turing is famous for breaking Germany's famed World War II Enigma code, but, as a founder of modern computational science, he also wrote influentially about the possibilities of breaking the mind's code.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 50
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The contemplative. The active. The fatalistic. The hedonistic. There are good but limited arguments for each of these.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 48
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Meaning arises from conventions that presuppose not only a social world but a world in which we share the interests and aspirations of others.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 14
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What sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 32
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Thomas Reid was Hume's most successful and influential critic, with a common sense psychology that was both naturalistic and compatible with religious teaching and which reached America's founders.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 45
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Marx, Darwin, and Freud are the chief 19th-century architects of modern thought about society and self - each was nominally "scientific" in approach and believed their theories to be grounded in the realm of observable facts.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 60
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We consider various theological arguments for and against belief in God, including those of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Reid, and William James.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 16
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The Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.