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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 seared themselves into America's collective memory. Non-stop images of collapsing towers, airlines flying into buildings, and a low-flying jet plunging into the Pentagon cannot be forgotten. Recordings of phone conversations between doomed passengers on United Fight 93-who knew about the previous attacks-and their loved ones on the ground, play over and over in our ears. In the subsequent days and months, much was said...
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El término apropiación aparece en diversos momentos y con distintos sentidos a lo largo de la filosofía heideggeriana. En este volumen consideramos su sentido más amplio, esto es, el que lo comprende como un ejercicio del pensamiento que consiste en pensar con y a partir de otros, lo cual implica reconocer que pensar no se lleva a cabo en el vacío sino en un horizonte situado y determinado, en este caso, por la tradición.
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En la filosofía conviven distintos estilos y metodologías, así como diversas concepciones de lo que significa justificar adecuadamente una posición, lo que no representa una limitación sino, por el contrario, una señal de sano pluralismo. Este pluralismo, sin embargo, plantea interrogantes referidas a sus propios límites, a los criterios compartidos y, en general, a las relaciones entre las distintas metodologías filosóficas.
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Deadpool is the super-anti-hero who knows he's in a comic book. His unique situation and blood-stained history give rise to many philosophical puzzles. A group of philosophical Deadpool fans delve into these puzzles in Deadpool and Philosophy. For instance, if you know that someone is writing the script of your life, can you really be a hero? Is Deadpool really Wade Wilson, or did Wilson have his identity stolen by the monster who is now Deadpool?...
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From their commanding role in the so-called British Invasion of the early 1960s to their status as the elder statesmen (and British Knight) of rock and roll, the Stones have become more than an evanescent phenomenon in pop culture. They have become a touchstone not only for the history of our times-their performance at the Altamont Raceway marked the "end of the sixties," while their 1990 concert in Prague helped Czechoslovakia and other eastern bloc...
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Red Rising and Philosophy has gathered together a crew of the wisest Helldivers philosophy can offer. Could humanity's love of physical enhancements cause its extinction? Do people doom humanity by trying to all be the same? Can a person love someone, while at the same time wanting that person destroyed? Is equality always the best principle on which to organize society? What is evil, and how does it exist in contemporary life? Does one remain the...
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Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, David L. Feldman, MD, and Michael Leonard, MD, have gathered fifty engaging first-person...
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In Steve Jobs and Philosophy sixteen philosophers take a close look at the inspiring yet often baffling world of Steve Jobs. What can we learn about business ethics from the example of Jobs? What are the major virtues of a creative innovator? How could Jobs successfully defy and challenge conventional business practices? How did Jobs combine values and attitudes previously believed to be unmixable? What does it really mean to 'think different'?...
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'I'm getting something,' says Shawn, assuming a look of intense concentration and pressing his fingertips to the sides of his head. Shawn Spencer uses lies, pretense, and distraction to get at the truth. But can pseudoscience and fakery really be so helpful? And if they can be, is it ethical to employ them? Psych and Philosophy takes an entertaining tour through the philosophical issues raised by a fake psychic. Can faulty logic get to the truth...
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El presente volumen reúne cinco contribuciones originales que buscan, cada una a su manera y según problemas específicos, examinar diferentes modos en que la obra de Spinoza ha podido ser leída, tanto en filosofía como fuera de la filosofía. Se da entre los autores esa relación frecuente de todos los spinocistas con Spinoza, que proponen una lectura amorosa de Spinoza. Esto no quiere decir que sus lecturas no sean "serias": la erudición y...
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Durante los primeros años veinte del siglo xvii suena con fuerza en Francia una terrible e indignada voz de alarma: la corte de París se halla infestada desde finales del siglo anterior de toda suerte de blasfemos, licenciosos y ateístas. Todos ellos quedan rápidamente agrupados bajo la categoría de libertinos, término peyorativo con el que son designados quienes consagran sus energías intelectuales a un riguroso cuestionamiento del universo...
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Stefan Fatsis sends his "stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect" glove to be restored by the glove designer at Rawlings. Frank Deford makes the case that the baseball cap may be the most universal article of clothing ever designed. Roger Angell considers why it is that pitchers are "so much livelier and more garrulous than hitters." George Plimpton reflects on the slow demotion of aging or slumping players...
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Part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser, and absolutely the most unusual and thorough compendium of baseball stats and facts ever assembled-all verified for accuracy by the Baseball Hall of Fame.
First created by legendary sportswriter Bert Randolph Sugar, and now updated, here are thousands of fascinating lists, tables, data, and stimulating facts. Inside, you'll find all of the big name baseball heroes like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Ernie...
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Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 acclaimed writers tell their stories of living in one of the most mesmerizing cities in the world.
Over the last few decades, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon Valley, tech companies, and more. Countless articles, blogs, and even movies have tried to capture the complex nature of what San Francisco has become, a place millions of people have loved to call home,...
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This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more-featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others.
Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, "I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer," these questions start us on the path of some fascinating explorations. While the various contributors...
16) Lives of Houses
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Kate Kennedy, a writer and broadcaster, is Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and Research Fellow in Music and English at Wolfson College, both at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney (Princeton). Hermione Lee is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. Her many books include biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Tom Stoppard....
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A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O'Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world.
A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for what we seek in these complex...
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When the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. The essays in this exciting collection are at times deeply personal, providing insight into the development of the writers in their craft, and at times sharply practical and filled with long-tested approaches for writing with power and effectiveness. All are, characterized by care, generosity, and good humor, and reflect,...
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La pluralidad política revolucionaria de 1968. Ante una conmemoración culturalista y a veces llena de la amnesia que despolitiza el acontecimiento, es importante recordarlo y ubicarlo aunque sea brevemente, en las distintas dimensiones y latitudes donde se produjo. 1968 no es solo el mayo de una revuelta estudiantil, es la huelga general, la sublevación generalizada, la insurgencia en México, la primavera de Praga, como también las luchas de...
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Dr. Seuss and Philosophy delighted thousands of readers by demonstrating the insights of these children's classics through a playful engagement with the philosophical tradition. In More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy readers will be offered a vision of the good life through the world of Dr. Seuss. Whether it's stoicism and care of the self in Did I ever Tell you How Lucky you Are?, facing our own mortality in You're Only Old Once, or the value of compassion,...
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