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  • Man and Materialism

    de Fred Hoyle ...
    Series series World Perspectives
    Originally published in 1957, this book offers a challenging intellectual experience to the reader who wishes to understand the broad historical trends that determine the future of humanity on this planet. The book examines natural laws that govern humanity by looking at communities over long periods of time and noting patterns which become evident. The book includes discussions of communism, the ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    de Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    de James C. Scott ...
    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Meaning of It All

    Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

    de Richard P. Feynman ...
    Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him -- how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now, a wonderful book -- based on a previously unpublished, three-part public lecture he gave at the University of Washington in 1963 -- shows us this other ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Tyranny of Words

    de Stuart Chase ...
    The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language.In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, The Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful analysis of the way we use words continues to resonate. A contemporary of the economist Thorstein Veblen ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Two Cheers for Anarchism

    Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

    de James C. Scott ...
    A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to lifeJames Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Liquid Modernity

    de Zygmunt Bauman ...
    In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • The Albert Einstein Collection Volume One

    Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

    de Albert Einstein ...
    Three captivating volumes reveal how Einstein viewed both the physical universe and the everyday world in which he lived.A century after his theory of general relativity shook the foundations of the scientific world, Albert Einstein's name is still synonymous with genius. This collection is an introduction to one of the world's greatest minds.Essays in HumanismNuclear proliferation, Zionism, and ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Technological Society

    de Jacques Ellul ...
    As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed.Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Wasted Lives

    Modernity and Its Outcasts

    de Zygmunt Bauman ...
    The production of 'human waste' – or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Within Reason

    Rationality and Human Behavior

    de Donald Calne ...
    It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B. Calne investigates the phenomenon of rationality from an astonishingly wide array of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • For Common Things

    Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today

    de Jedediah Purdy ...
    Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary and cultural influences--from the writings of Montaigne and Thoreau to ... Leer más

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