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  • What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense
    Alessandra Melas / Pietro Salis
    It is a common opinion that chance events cannot be understood in causal terms. Conversely, according to a causal view of chance, intersections between independent causal chains originate accidental events, called 'coincidences'. Firstly, this book explores this causal conception of chance and tries to shed new light on it. Such a view has been defended by authors like Antoine ...
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    33,71 €

  • Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure
    Edward Carpenter
    In this book, the American philosopher Edward Carpenter reassesses the meaning of civilization and its role in the development of humanity and morality. As the author says: 'hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass anything of a similar kind among the polished communities ...
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    13,36 €

  • Toward Environmental Wholeness
    Patrick H. Byrne
    Offers a unified vision for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate. ...
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    126,63 €

  • Echoes of Faith
    Maxwell J. Aromano
    In a world shattered by distrust and upheaval, 'Echoes of Faith: Resonance in the Trustless Era, Rebuilding Hope and Connection' beckons readers into a mesmerizing journey of redemption and renewal. Delve into the heart of a society torn asunder by betrayal, where echoes of shattered faith reverberate through every corner. From the ashes of despair emerge tales of courage, resi...
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    12,05 €

  • Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    The important concepts in this book include the difference between slave morality and master morality. Nietzsche tries to help the reader understand that there are no absolutes and that everything can be understood differently from a different point of view. He sees the greatest danger as the mindless, instinctive herd, and warns strongly against it, including especially the fl...
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    13,53 €

  • Digital Technologies, Ethics, and Decentralization in the Digital Era
    Digital disintermediation, or the elimination of 'middle-men' in a traditional market setting, has had profound effects on global economies. The rise of peer-to-peer networks and decentralized marketplaces has also led to some market destabilization, and the discussion on data sovereignty and privacy challenges raises concerns surrounding business in the digital age. Digital Te...
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    393,23 €

  • Digital Technologies, Ethics, and Decentralization in the Digital Era
    Digital disintermediation, or the elimination of 'middle-men' in a traditional market setting, has had profound effects on global economies. The rise of peer-to-peer networks and decentralized marketplaces has also led to some market destabilization, and the discussion on data sovereignty and privacy challenges raises concerns surrounding business in the digital age. Digital Te...
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    294,72 €

  • Beyond Good and Evil
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    The important concepts in this book include the difference between slave morality and master morality. Nietzsche tries to help the reader understand that there are no absolutes and that everything can be understood differently from a different point of view. He sees the greatest danger as the mindless, instinctive herd, and warns strongly against it, including especially the fl...
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    12,70 €

  • The Healing of Nations and The Hidden Sources of Their Strife
    Edward Carpenter
    Originally published in 1915 in the middle of World War I, Carpenter explores the effects that the war was having on society and humankind as a whole from first-hand experience. In particular, book focus on the differences between Germany and England, the causes of the war and suggestions for restoration and recovery when the war has ended. Carpenter details all of this in a re...
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    11,01 €

  • Waste Is Information
    Dietmar Offenhuber
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    46,62 €

  • The Death Experience
    Alan Ross Hugenot
    This book describes what you will experience as you die. Giving details of the death process and your journey into the afterlife based on the author’s own Near-Death experience where he died, went out-of-body into the afterlife, and returned to a second life in the same body. His experiences are collated with the Tibetan Book of the Dead; the Egyptian Book of the Dead; and curr...
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    15,44 €

  • Hacking the Underground
    Raquel Velho
    Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures'Minding the gap' while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time. The extensive infrastructure of London’s public tr...
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    38,42 €

  • Hacking the Underground
    Raquel Velho
    Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures'Minding the gap' while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time. The extensive infrastructure of London’s public tr...
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    135,05 €

  • Theistic Evolution
    Wolfgang Smith
    The heady amalgam of Science and Christianity posited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-which struck the Catholic world like a whirlwind around the time of the Second Vatican Council and continues, however stealthily, to the present day-has rendered Catholics vulnerable to various heretical and heterodox tenets. This ideology clad in scientific garb is what Wolfgang Smith takes to ...
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    27,85 €

  • Theistic Evolution
    Wolfgang Smith
    The heady amalgam of Science and Christianity posited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-which struck the Catholic world like a whirlwind around the time of the Second Vatican Council and continues, however stealthily, to the present day-has rendered Catholics vulnerable to various heretical and heterodox tenets. This ideology clad in scientific garb is what Wolfgang Smith takes to ...
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    15,68 €

  • Virgin Mary and the Neutrino
    Isabelle Stengers
    In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John Dewey to Gilles Deleuze, she develops what she calls an 'ecology of practices' int...
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    134,58 €

  • Virgin Mary and the Neutrino
    Isabelle Stengers
    In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John Dewey to Gilles Deleuze, she develops what she calls an 'ecology of practices' int...
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    35,33 €

  • Filosofía para principiantes Cómo comprender los fundamentos de la filosofía tan fácilmente como un juego de niños y aplicarlos con éxito en tu vida cotidiana mediante ejercicios prácticos.
    Jakob Schröter
    Filosofía: el término suena fascinante, hermoso, de algún modo romántico y armonioso y, al mismo tiempo, como un gran esfuerzo intelectual. Sin embargo, en realidad la filosofía no es ni especialmente romántica ni especialmente agotadora.Es cierto que hay que utilizar el cerebro, y quizá algunas cosas excedan el sentido común normal, pero básicamente la filosofía sólo significa...
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    9,72 €

  • Adoption and Use of Technology Tools and Services by Economically Disadvantaged Communities
    Alice S. Etim
    Economically disadvantaged communities in many regions around the world are making concerted efforts to become integrated into the global information society. The adoption and use of an array of technology tools and services by these communities will pave the way for their inclusion. Adoption and Use of Technology Tools and Services by Economically Disadvantaged Communities: Im...
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    295,33 €

  • Adoption and Use of Technology Tools and Services by Economically Disadvantaged Communities
    Alice S. Etim
    Economically disadvantaged communities in many regions around the world are making concerted efforts to become integrated into the global information society. The adoption and use of an array of technology tools and services by these communities will pave the way for their inclusion. Adoption and Use of Technology Tools and Services by Economically Disadvantaged Communities: Im...
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    222,94 €

  • A Bastard Kind of Reasoning
    Andrew M. Cooper
    Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake’s oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity. ...
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    49,47 €

  • Arguments that Count
    Rebecca Slayton
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    38,65 €

  • Beyond Versus
    James Tabery
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    43,82 €

  • What’s Left of Human Nature?
    Maria Kronfeldner
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    43,66 €

  • Authors, Users, and Pirates
    James Meese
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    34,05 €

  • The Cosmic Web
    Joy Andrews Hayter
    We exist in a highly interwoven quantum field: a cosmic web. To see this is to better understand how to live. This enlightening book weaves together current physics, in easy-to-grasp descriptions, with the words of Wisdom teacher Jesus and the writings of many other mystics from the world’s spiritual traditions. The author shows how, with an open contemplative heart, you might ...
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    19,54 €

  • Abraham H. Maslow
    Russael B.K. Johanys / Russael BK Johanys
    This book is a synopsis of the six main books of Abraham H. Maslow. Maslow was one of many humanistic psychologists, but he was the greatest synthesizer and theorist among them. Most writers on Maslow focus on his psychology: the hierarchy of needs, self-actualization, peak experiences, and human values. Maslow, however, was also a societal thinker, analyzing education, the wor...
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    19,66 €

  • Beyond Left and Right
    Garry MacGregor
    Humans are adaptable creatures, capable of thriving in a wide range of settings. We have been able to create successful societies based on the human urge to dominate. We can also thrive in organizations that rest on the human desire to cooperate. Family groupings and small communities exemplify the latter; the modern successors to feudal structures shape the former. Our history...
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    22,00 €

  • Homosexuality
    Mark A Yarhouse / Stanton L Jones / Stanton L. Jones
    How prevalent is homosexuality? What causes it? Is it a psychopathology? Can it be changed?Questions like these often accompany discussions of homosexual behavior. For answers we naturally look to scientific studies. But what does the scientific research actually show? More important, what place should this research have in shaping the church’s response?Stanton Jones and Mark ...
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    22,33 €

  • Transhumanism and the Image of God
    Jacob Shatzer
    We’re constantly invited to think about the future of technology as a progressive improvement of tools: our gadgets will continue to evolve, but we humans will stay basically the same. In the future, perhaps even alien species and intelligent robots will coexist alongside humans, who will grapple with challenges and emerge as the heroes. But the truth is that radical technologi...
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    28,09 €


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