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The Ant and the Ferrari: Lifting the Hood on Truth, Society and the Universe
   

The Ant and the Ferrari: Lifting the Hood on Truth, Society and the Universe (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Spackman, Dr. Kerry

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An accessible pop science book which offers readers a clear, navigable path through the big questions that confront us all today, using science to reveal the hidden truths in the universe. Author Dr Spackman examines questions such as: Is there such thing as absolute truth? How ...

ISBN 9781869509590
Release Date 1 June 2012 by HarperCollins
Interest Age Young Adults
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Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (Hardback)

By de Botton, Alain

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Argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world. This book proposes that we should look to religions for insights into how to build a sense of community, make our relation ...

ISBN 9780241144770
Published 25 January 2012 by Penguin
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Objectivity
  

Objectivity (Paperback)

By Gaukroger, Stephen

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Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. This Very Short Introduction explores the theoretical and practical problems raised by objectivity, and also deals with the way in which particular understandings of objectivity impinge on social research, scienc ...

ISBN 9780199606696
Release Date 8 June 2012 by Oxford University Press
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Hardback)

By Haidt, Jonathan

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From advertising to politics, morality influences all aspects of behaviour. It is the key to understanding everybody. By examining where morality comes from, and why it is the defining characteristic of humans, this title also shows why we cannot dismiss the views of others as me ...

ISBN 9781846141812
Published 23 May 2012 by Penguin
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Introducing Philosophy for Everyday Life: a Practical Guide

Introducing Philosophy for Everyday Life: a Practical Guide (Paperback)

By Curnow, Trevor

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A Practical Guide to how philosophy affects everyday life

ISBN 9781848313569
Published 5 April 2012 by Icon Books Ltd
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Humanistic Tradition: Book 6: Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age

Humanistic Tradition: Book 6: Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age (Paperback, 4th edition)

By Fiero, Gloria K.

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Beginning with the startling twentieth century developments in physics and the Freudian revolution, this book of The Humanistic Tradition addresses 100 years of precipitous change. The exciting conclusion to the six-book series, Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age c ...

ISBN 9780072317350
Published 1 October 2001 by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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What Should I Do?: Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling
 

What Should I Do?: Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling (Paperback)

Edited by George, Alexander; Mai, Elisa

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Life throws moral questions at us every day -- about our family, social, and working relationships, about what the fair or decent thing to do is, about how society should be run. In this book a panel of distinguished philosophers offer lively and enlightening answers to a wide ra ...

ISBN 9780199586127
Published 17 April 2011 by Oxford University Press
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Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
 

Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Dan, Yu

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Simply written and with a view to taking the wisdom of Confucius out of the hands of the academics and the philosophers and making it accessible to the general reader, this book gives us a contemporary Confucius, one who can teach us how to attach spiritual happiness, adjust our ...

ISBN 9780330425353
Published 1 June 2009 by Pan Macmillan
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Introducing Existentialism

Introducing Existentialism (Trade Paperback/Paperback, New edition)

By Appignanesi, Richard; Illustrated by Zarate, Oscar

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Richard Appignanesi goes in personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus' question of suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialism 'the least scandalous, most te ...

ISBN 9781840467178
Published 4 May 2006 by Icon Books Ltd
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Introducing Kierkegaard

Introducing Kierkegaard (Trade Paperback/Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

By Robinson, Dave; Illustrated by Zarate, Oscar

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Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and the first modern theologian. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed people's lives. His distrust of grand abstract schemes, particularly Hegel's, and his insistence ...

ISBN 9781840467581
Published 3 August 2006 by Icon Books Ltd
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