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  • You Are Not So Smartby David McRaney

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name.   Whether you?re deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But here?s the truth: You are not so smart. You?re... more...

  • IDby Susan Greenfield

    Hodder & Stoughton 2009; US$ 22.64

    If you?ve ever wondered what effect video games have on your children?s minds or worried about how much private information the government and big companies know about you, ID is essential reading. Professor Susan Greenfield argues persuasively that our individuality is under the microscope as never before; now more then ever we urgently need to... more...

  • IDby Susan Greenfield

    Hodder & Stoughton 2009; Not Available

    If you?ve ever wondered what effect video games have on your children?s minds or worried about how much private information the government and big companies know about you, ID is essential reading. Professor Susan Greenfield argues persuasively that our individuality is under the microscope as never before; now more then ever we urgently need to... more...

  • The Problem of Distractionby Paul North

    Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 22.95

    We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction,... more...

  • Losses and Gainsby Lya Fett Luft

    Ebury Publishing 2011; US$ 9.34

    In her bestselling book Losses and Gains , Lya Luft draws on her own experiences of loss and gain in marriage and family to address the universal themes of childhood, love and maturity. She portrays love as the common thread through all phases of life. As children, the unconditional love we receive from our parents determines our expectations for... more...

  • Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and the Alienation of Human Beingby Dr Gavin Rae

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be? more...

  • A Common Humanityby Raimond Gaita

    The Text Publishing Company 2011; US$ 25.95

    In this marvellous book, Raimond Gaita discusses ideas about love and hatred, good and evil, guilt and forgiveness. Moving, wise and inspiring, A Common Humanity explores personal, political and philosophical ideas about the kind of society and the sort of public conversation we might have in the twenty-first century. more...

  • Action in Contextby Anton Leist

    De Gruyter 2007; US$ 112.00

    The book illustrates the concept of action in three different contexts - the justification of actions, people?s life history, and pragmatism.Because of itscomprehensive view, this volume marks a departure from the atomistic approach of action theory. Thisin itself raises a number of questions, which the ten contributors to this volume deal with in... more...

  • Grounds for Respectby Kristi Giselsson

    Lexington Books 2012; US$ 69.99

    Grounds for Respect broaches a question that is of vital importance to all; namely, what grounds do we need in order to justify respect for others? In exploring this question the author provides not only a critical overview of traditional and contemporary approaches to ? and critiques of ? the concept of a common humanity, but also offers a distinctively... more...

  • Politics of Practical Reasoningby Ricca Edmondson; Karlheinz Hülser; Keith Breen; Frank Canavan; Gerard Casey; Terry Eagleton; Heike Felzmann; Thomas Gil; Karsten Harries; Richard Hull; Sebastian Lalla; Elizabeth Langhorne; Felix O'Murchadha; Fran O'Rourke

    Lexington Books 2012; US$ 79.99

    This book treats practical and political reasoning as an active engagement with the world and other people; i t cannot be understood as exclusively cognitive and this is seen as a virtue rather than a deficiency. Informal, emotional, characterological, aesthetic and interactional aspects of thought can be constituents of reasonable arguing. The... more...