Philosophy
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This Grief Thing F**king Sucks
by Taya Mikado
Frank and philosophical, gentle and brave, this grief thing F**KING sucks wanders the ghost town of grief, reaching out a hand to those it encounters along the way. Through clear-eyed prose and tender-hearted poetry, Taya Mikado relays her own grief ...
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Idea Materia
Can Ideas be Measured by Science? by Patrick J. Ricard
How is it possible that throughout history several inventors around the world have independently invented the same things at the same time? Why does history repeat itself? How do birds know how to migrate, and how can “instinct” be explained? Idea ...
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Ethics for Capitalists
A Systematic Approach to Business Ethics, Competition, and Market Failure by Joseph Heath
Ethics for Capitalists offers a powerful new statement of the Market Failures Approach to business ethics. While the competitive context of the market economy provides economic actors greater freedom to pursue their interests, it also imposes moral ...
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Language and State
An Inquiry into the Progress of Civilization, Second Edition by Xing Yu
This book argues that while humans communicate using language, they create and use media. Media extend the distance of communication. Humans form themselves into a large community. This happens in a long historical process in which the state of the ...
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Advice To My Son
30 Year Anniversary Edition by Dennis M. Ludwig
THIRTY YEARS AGO, a devoted father, distanced by divorce, documented the life lessons he learned in a handwritten guide for his only son on his eighteenth birthday. Now a grandfather and nearing eighty years old, Dennis Ludwig's gift keeps on giving ...
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Meta Phor
A simple and profound guide for connecting with the Universe by Avalon Sky High Performance Training
Meta Phor is a simple and profound guide to connecting with the universe through philosophy and mindfulness. It is a teaching tool that shows how we can all be more open to the metaphors around us, and learn to see the world in a new light. The book ...
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St. Mike's Fortunes
Words of Wisdom to Inspire Positive Change by Thomas Caverly
St. Mike's Fortunes is a compilation of insightful, humorous, and philosophical tweets that covers everything from death and mourning to careers to relationships with friends. It augments both the University of Life and that of Hard Knocks, ...
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One is Zero
by Fan Zou
IN PHILOSOPHY WE TRUST The book is dedicated to a new thinking --- a common philosophy can be extracted from Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and science to be the core of spirituality and existence of life. It can be summarized as fusion of the ...
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The Song and the Swallow
Authenticity and Love by Matthew Anghelos March
Our need for meaning and substance is ubiquitous in the human condition, but how do we reliably find meaning? How are we susceptible to doing it the wrong way? What does this look like, what is produced, and why we should avoid it? Using archetypal ...
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Sapien
by Mercia Jensen Stickney
How have men and women’s social roles differed throughout history? What distinguishes them biologically—and what makes them the same? And why is it that the world over, throughout history, female self-expression and liberty have been curtailed? In ...
