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  • Nevergreen

    by Andrew Pessin ...
    A smart, fast, funny, and incisive portrait of today's liberal arts college scene, cancel culture, and more.A chance encounter—if it is by chance—gives J. the opportunity of a lifetime. A physician in a midlife funk, he is invited to speak at a small college. But when he arrives at the secluded island campus of Nevergreen College he gets a lot more than he bargained for. No one actually shows up ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jewish God Question

    What Jewish Thinkers Have Said about God, the Book, the People, and the Land

    by Andrew Pessin ...
    The Jewish God Question explores what a diverse array of Jewish thinkers have said about the interrelated questions of God, the Book, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel. Exploring topics such as the existence of God, God’s relationship to the world and to history, how to read the Bible, Jewish mysticism, the evolution of Judaism, and more, Andrew Pessin makes key insights from the Jewish ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Poisoning the Wells

    Antisemitism in Contemporary America

    Edited by Corinne E. Blackmer, Andrew Pessin ...
    Series series Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies
    In twenty-first century America, antisemitism is on the rise, especially on the extreme left, the radical right, and within political Islamism. Expressions of this oldest hatred are also increasingly prevalent in popular culture, where they are spread by politicians, entertainers and celebrities, the media, social justice activists, and religious leaders, as well as in universities, in schools, on ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes

    by Andrew Pessin ...
    An historical murder mystery based on real events.Who would want to murder the world's most famous philosopher?Turns out: nearly everyone.In 1649, Descartes was invited by the Queen of Sweden to become her Court Philosopher. Though he was the world's leading philosopher, his life had by this point fallen apart. He was 53, penniless, living in exile in Amsterdam, alone. With much trepidation but ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anti-Zionism on Campus

    The University, Free Speech, and BDS

    by Andrew Pessin, Dan Avnon, Julien Bauer, Corinne Blackmer, Gabriel Brahm, Shlomo Dubnov, Ronnie Fraser, Janet Freedman, Larissa Benita Klazinga0, Jeffrey Kopstein1, Martin Kramer2, Philip Mendes3, Richard Millett4, Cary Nelson5, Denise Nussbaum6, Judea Pearl7, Ami Pedahzur8, Peter Keeda9, Clive Kesswer0, Jan Poddebsky1, Yaron Raviv2, David Rosen3, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin4, Jill Schneiderman5, Ernest Sternberg6, Elhanan Yakira7, Jesse Arm8, Milan Chatterjee9, Molly Horwitz0, Eliana Kohn1, Tomer Kornfeld2, Jared Samilow3, Daniel Swindell4 ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    Many scholars have endured the struggle against rising anti-Israel sentiments on college and university campuses worldwide. This volume of personal essays documents and analyzes the deleterious impact of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the most cherished Western institutions. These essays illustrate how anti-Israelism corrodes the academy and its treasured ideals of free ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Bright College Years: (or, If That's Not Life)

    by Andrew Pessin ...
    Coming of age doesn't only happen to the young.When a former close friend and rival is murdered, world-weary but still aspiring optimist Jeffrey goes back to the beginning, to those fraught college years at Yale University during the 1980s and to her, to make sense of what happened—only to discover that what needs most making sense of is himself.By turns smart, funny, and heart-wrenching, Bright ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Gray Matters

    Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

    by Sanford Goldberg, Andrew Pessin ...
    Gray Matters is a thorough examination of the main topics in recent philosophy of mind. It aims at surveying a broad range of issues, not all of which can be subsumed under one position or one philosopher's theory. In this way, the authors avoid neglecting interesting issues out of allegiance to a given theory of mind. ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Uncommon Sense

    The Strangest Ideas from the Smartest Philosophers

    by Andrew Pessin ...
    In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums—by asserting some very strange things. But the great philosophers don’t merely make unusual claims, they offer powerful arguments for those claims that you can’t easily dismiss. And these arguments suggest that the world is ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Study of Philosophy

    A Text with Readings

    by Andrew Pessin, S. Morris Engel ...
    This seventh edition of The Study of Philosophy presents a comprehensive treatment of the major fields and figures of philosophy alongside primary readings by seminal thinkers to fuel debate and further study.New features of this edition includea substantive account of philosophical theology a reorganized treatment of early modern rationalism and empiricism discussion of the major highlights of ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Twin Earth Chronicles

    Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's the "Meaning of Meaning"

    by Andrew Pessin, Sanford Goldberg ...
    In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The article's Twin Earth conclusions about meaning, thought and knowledge were shocking. This work contains writings on the subject of Twin Earth. ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Philosophy of Mind

    by Andrew Pessin ...
    Narrated by Andrew Pessin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    The nature of the mind lies at the heart of the eternal human quest for understanding. What does it mean to think? What is the relation between mind and body, and where do we draw the line between physical and mental? With an enthusiastic and scholarly approach, Professor Andrew Pessin of Connecticut College addresses these and other questions, including a studied look at beliefs, consciousness, ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Defending Identity

    Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy

    by Natan Sharansky ...
    Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice?Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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