River Runs Black,The by Economy Elizabeth
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, to expound a clear critique of Kant.
On Literature by Umberto Eco
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next three essays centre on nineteenth- and ...Show more
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the world famous author of In The Name of the Rose, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, bro ...Show more
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Recalls experiencing liberation from fascism in Italy as a boy, and examines the various historical forms of fascism, always with an eye toward ugly manifestations. The author reflects on a question underlying the reflections in this book - what does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't belie ...Show more
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Russell Easterly
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this aid? Why after 50 years and $2.3 trillion are there s ...Show more
WELL & GOOD PB by ECKERSLEY RICHARD
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Complaint : From Minor Moans to Principled Protests (Big Ideas series) by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Complaining is very popular - as shown by the success of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Crap Towns and Is It Me Or Is Everything Shit? But there has been no book on the actual subject - until now.Conversation would be extremely limited if we stopped moaning. But whereas we once complained about the things tha ...Show more
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
100 philosophical puzzles - how to approach them, how to begin to understand them, and come up with possible answers Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments: short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/hersel ...Show more
The Duck That Won the Lottery : and 99 other bad arguments by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This companion volume to "The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten" provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry will be aroun ...Show more
Hobbes's 'leviathan' by Bagby Laurie
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Reader's Guides
Thomas Hobbes' most enduring work, "Leviathan", is a key text in the study of political philosophy. Explaining the philosophical background against which the text was written, this book guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, and then, explores the reception and influence of t ...Show more
The Devil We Know : Dealing With the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Former CIA operative Robert Baer here exposes for the first time the true extent of Iran's tightening grip on the Middle East and the world's energy corridor, the Persian Gulf - revealing that the Shia nation has effectively checkmated the United States and other leading countries in a new global power ...Show more