Tento sprievodca povzbudzuje čitateľov, aby prekonali osobné boje tým, že sa postavia za svoje potreby a prijmú autenticitu. Zdôrazňuje dôležitosť seba-vyjadrenia a oslobodenia, ktoré prichádza s tým, že zostaneme verní sami sebe. Prostredníctvom praktických rád a postrehov sa kniha snaží posilniť jednotlivcov, aby sa oslobodili od spoločenských očakávaní a žili naplnený život.
A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
Already a classic in its first year of publication, this landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy, "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2001.
Predstavme si človeka, ktorý zo dňa na deň stratí pamäť. Zvyčajne je to dôsledok silného šoku alebo choroby: hrdina románu Eric Sanderson prežil aj šok, aj psychicky ochorel, no predovšetkým zápasí s fiktívnym žralokom, ktorý mu sústavne odjedá z pamäti. Mení sa na svojho dvojníka, hľadá si novú totožnosť, túži pred žralokom uniknúť, Druhý Eric Sanderson čoskoro zistí, že okrem žraloka ho ohrozuje aj totálna identita, ktorá prostredníctvom informačnej techniky pohlcuje nesčíselné množstvo ľudských intelektov a informácií. Sandersonova ceste vedie do nepriestoru pozostávajúceho z kníh, slov a písmen, lenže aj doň prenikajú konceptuálne ryby, a predovšetkým žralok.
A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the heart of Scotland at Glencoe and travel from there all the way to Inverness and Culloden battlefield, where along the way they experience adventure and a cast of highland characters. In this story of friendship, finding themselves, and whisky, they discover the complexity, rich history and culture of their native country.
Gray takes two major examples: the belief among a group of Edwardian intellectuals that there was a form of life after death (accessed through mediums and automatic writing), and the certainty that the science-backed Communism of the new USSR could reshape the planet, remaking mankind and freeing it from death--and in the process returning revolutionary leaders such as Lenin back to life. He interweaves these with extraordinary stories of philosophers, politicians, spiritualists, embalmers, crazed inventors, love-struck psychical researchers, journalist spies and mass killers, all of whom were driven by a specifically modern world view according to which science could make humanity invincible. 'The Immortalization Commission' raises a host of fascinating questions about what it means to be human. The great and terrible implication of Darwin's ideas was that natural selection made humans into animals like any other, doomed one day to disappear from the face of an uncaring earth.
Overzicht van hedendaagse benaderingen van traditionele filosofische vragen.
A sharp and humorous debut novel reimagines Animal Farm for the 21st century, focusing on a teddy bear caught in the turmoil of America's war on terror.
