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81) Ishmael
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Records the philosophical conversations that take place between a man and a gorilla named Ishmael after the man answers an advertisement for a pupil with a desire to save the world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work ofhistory and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions--our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations--we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society. Nicholas A. Christakis...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Language
English
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Description
"The inner critic is the voice inside our heads reminding us that we are never "good enough." Its behind the insidious thoughts that can make us second-guess our every action and doubt our own value. The inner critic might feel overpowering, but it can be managed effectively. Meditation teacher and therapist Mark Coleman helps readers understand and free themselves from the inner critic using the tools of mindfulness and compassion. Each chapter offers...
Language
English
Description
With an estimated 20 million people addicted to drugs or alcohol, North America is in the grip of an unrivaled epidemic. Overcoming Addiction reveals how seemingly contradictory treatment theories must come together to understand and end dangerous substance abuse.
Addiction treatment has become a billion-dollar industry based on innumerable clinical and psychological perspectives. Zealous clinicians and researchers have gathered around the theories,...
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Tiller Press trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Five Forces (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water) are derived from Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy of how nature grows and evolves. It applies to the seasons, to farming, to human development, illness and healing, relationships, and serves asthe seat of most of Chinese Medicine practice today. This simplified and practical guidebook uses these core forces as a basis for helping people navigate the tides of life-whether at your workplace,...
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to spare Erica's feelings so she could go to Brittany's birthday party, Allie disobeys one of her own rules and lies.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead, Isham said, Alexander should start listening to his dreams....
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Princeton Classics edition.
Language
English
Description
"The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Revealing the mechanics of evolutionary theory, the scientist, engineer, and inventor presents a compelling argument for the scientific unviability of creationism and insists that creationism's place in the science classroom is harmful to the future of the greater world.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 84
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A groundbreaking work that explores the fundamental relationship between education and democracy. In this influential book, Dewey presents his philosophy of education, emphasizing the importance of education in fostering democratic ideals and active participation in a democratic society. The book begins by highlighting the essential role of education in the development of individuals as active, engaged citizens. Dewey argues that education should...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's views on the notion that man's capacity to produce ideas in itself brings about sweeping changes in the world. This ability seen most profoundly in individual, startling moments of genius - or equally startling moments of chance-- is what separates humans from the animals and allows humans to re-imagine the world in ever more complex designs. From the earliest ideas, including cannibalism and the idea of farming, to theories...
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