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In Life Ahead, one of the greatest teachers of our time presents a practical philosophy of learning and understanding that moves far beyond traditional ideas of education. Collected from talks Krishnamurti gave to his students in India, Life Ahead offers short chapters based around life's fundamental questions. It includes an introduction written by Krishnamurti especially for the book.
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La historia del pensamiento occidental y su influencia en la metafísica, la ciencia, la estética, la ética y la política. Desde Platón y Aristóteles, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche o Schopenhauer, hasta el siglo XX con la posmodernidad, el pragmatismo y filosofía analítica. Una revisión actualizada de las propuestas filosóficas esenciales.
Breve Historia de la Filosofía occidental ofrece un recorrido amplio por el mundo del pensamiento...
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This collection of eighteen chapters by talented philosophical minds probes some of the many lessons to be learned from Orange Is the New Black (mostly the addictive Netflix comedy-drama but with some attention to the best-selling real-life book by Piper Kerman). The show and the book that inspired it both dramatically highlight the troubling, stressful situation of millions of incarcerated Americans. How do the show's shower scenes shed light on...
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This essay is a game. And like all games it sets some rules. In this book, I'm not going to distinguish between Dr Gregory House's line of thought and that of the series creator David Shore, just as students of Socrates are obliged to ignore the distinction between Socrates' and Plato's ideas. In both cases one is dealing with virtual characters. In House's case, it's obvious that as a fictional character he doesn't exist as such; rather he's a person...
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Twenty-one philosophers join forces to investigate the implications of the Jurassic Park franchise for our lives, our values, and our future. Human beings live and thrive by modifying nature, but when do the risks of changing nature outweigh the likely benefits? If it's true that 'Life will find a way,' should we view any modified or newly reconstituted life as a hazard? The new scientific information we could gain by bringing back T. Rex or other...
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After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painstaking enterprise becomes the central metaphor and the unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here.
With sly wit and disarming candor, Soos recounts fly-fishing adventures that become points of departure for wide-ranging ruminations on the larger questions that haunt him. Coming to...
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Completely revised text focuses on use of spectral methods to solve boundary value, eigenvalue, and time-dependent problems, but also covers Hermite, Laguerre, rational Chebyshev, sinc, and spherical harmonic functions, as well as cardinal functions, linear eigenvalue problems, matrix-solving methods, coordinate transformations, methods for unbounded intervals, spherical and cylindrical geometry, and much more. 7 Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography....
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¿Existe un ser supremo, o es solo una creencia que justifica nuestra existencia? La humanidad ha debatido siempre al respecto. Único Todopoderoso o de múltiples apariencias, son objeto de plegarias y rituales confiando destino, anhelos, perdón o justificación a infortunios.
¿Cuál es el verdadero dios? ¿Quiénes son sus legítimos representantes? Estos interrogantes han conducido a la humanidad a los grados más diversos de violencia. ¿Ha...
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How do people sense God's presence in created things?
Seeing God Everywhere is an anthology of essays on nature and the sacred, which address that question. Written by an impressive list of spiritual leaders and thinkers, these essays explore the question from many different perspectives. Reading these essays enriches our inner lives and enlivens our contemplative imaginations. Surely, this is the "deepest" ecology possible! As a special bonus, at...
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Descubra la verdadera historia del último imperio del Éufrates y del Tigris: sus conquistas, su cultura y su decadencia, desde el carismático Hammurabi hasta los sucesores del gran rey Nabucodonosor II. Esta es la fascinante crónica, desmitificadora y rigurosa de la cosmopolita Babilonia. Babilonia fue el corazón espiritual e intelectual del país del Tigris y del Éufrates, la región de Oriente Próximo que los antiguos griegos llamaron Mesopotamia...
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Descubra los movimientos, obras y autores fundamentales del patrimonio literario de la humanidad. Aprenda a distinguir épocas y estilos, conozca la esencia de los textos más representativos de manera entretenida y rigurosa, aprenda a disfrutar y comprender mejor las obras que interpretan el mundo que nos rodea. Una completa panorámica del tesoro cultural de las letras universales.
¿Qué tiene que ver el vino con el nacimiento del teatro? ¿Qué...
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Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200-year history of the country's movement toward conservation. Profiles of leaders in the fight to protect the environment and safeguard our...
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Descubra la vida cotidiana y la cultura de los Vikingos y adéntrese en el impresionante mundo de las divinidades, criaturas, mitos y leyendas de este gran pueblo de exploradores: Odín, Thor, Loki, Baldr, Niörd, desde el Ginnungagap hasta la batalla final de Ragnarök. Una visión contextualizada y rigurosa del fantástico cosmos mitológico nórdico.
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Conozca el decisivo cambio que hizo posible el mundo tal como lo conocemos, sus inventos geniales y sus innovaciones afortunadas, del paso del taller a las fábricas; las luces y las sombras de un progreso que separó definitivamente a los países pobres de los ricos.
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There's a fresh coating of snow on the ground outside our cabin as I look to see who's coming to the fourteen feeders, we keep filled with black oil sunflower seeds year-round. So, begins “A Year of Moons: Stories from the Adirondack Foothills”, a collection of essays by award winning author Joeseph Bruchac. The collection is a reflection on the rhythms of the land, the lunar cycles of the year, the plants and animals that surround us, and the...
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Scripture - and fairy tales - tell us that it is in the ordinary where we can be surprised by meaning and significance. If we have eyes to see, then we might catch sight of subtle signs pointing to a deeper reality that transcends the narrow confines of the here and now. In this view lost binoculars occasion hints of the divine, and everything from Sudoku, sun-dried cotton sheets, piles of trash and garter snakes loose in the house mysteriously provide...
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Incisive essays from a master wordsmith
Why has Don Juan become so passé of late? What's the trouble with Ayn Rand? How did the Doge of Venice come to venerate the counterfeit remains of Siddhartha Gautama? Why does the Bentley family's collection of ancestral relics include a bronzed human thumb? And what, exactly, is the story behind Great Uncle Aloysius, who was born a Quaker but died a pagan?
This collection of occasional essays brings us David...
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Now What? is a serious but informal essay on the twin facts of human freedom and human equality. Michael Lydon, a musician and writer who lives in New York, writes that all humans are equal because no one knows the future, and that we are free if we can do anything, however small, to make a better future for ourselves. Now What? is a book for anyone who feels that people of every race and color around the world are free and equal beings.
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La apasionante historia de uno de los grandes líderes de la Europa del Siglo XX. Un gran hombre de estado que combatió y venció en dos guerras mundiales, derrotó a Hitler y se enfrentó a Stalin. Una vida de novela que arranca en la época victoriana y termina en la de los Beatles.
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How will the world see the 20th century a hundred years from now? For many, it was like living right on the edge of a turbulent ocean that threatened to engulf them; and sometimes it did. In this thoughtful book, Mike Robbins looks at the century just gone through those who lived it, and the books they left behind.
Robbins includes some very different perspectives. What was it like to crew the last great sailing ships? How did it feel to be an ordinary...
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