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  • Out of Time

    A Philosophical Study of Timelessness

    by Samuel Baron, Kristie Miller, Jonathan Tallant ...
    The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so. There has been plenty of debate around what time is like, but not whether it exists. The goal of this book is to make the absence of time thinkable. Time might not exist. Beginning with an empirically flavoured examination of the 'folk' concept of time, the book explores the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Adventures in Russian Historical Research

    Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

    by Samuel H. Baron, Cathy Frierson ...
    American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys

    by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Baron Braybrooke ...
    The Celebrated work here presented to the public under peculiar advantages may require a few introductory remarks. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Introspection in Biography

    The Biographer's Quest for Self-awareness

    Edited by Samuel H Baron, Carl Pletsch ...
    Most of the essays offered here are revised versions of papers first prepared for an invitational conference on "The Psychology of Biography," held in Chapel Hill, November 12-14, 1981. The conference, which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, brought together twelve biographers—including historians, literary scholars, political scientists, and psychoanalysts—each of whom had ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Embracing the Other

    Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism

    Edited by Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence Blum ...
    All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public are seeking interventions which will not only inhibit the process, but may in fact chart a new ... Read more

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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S

    An Intimate Glimpse into 17th Century England Through a Witty Diarist's Eyes

    by Samuel Pepys ...
    Translated by Mynors Bright ...
    The "Diary of Samuel Pepys 'Äî Complete 1666 N.S" presents an unparalleled glimpse into the daily life of 17th-century England, masterfully capturing the tumultuous events of the year 1666, including the Great Fire of London. Pepys's literary style is characterized by its candidness and vivid detail, providing readers with an authentic voice that reflects both the mundane and the extraordinary. ... Read more

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    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Ghosts of Europe

    Journeys through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future

    by Anne Porter ...
    One of the country’s most distinguished writers and publishers returns to her roots to explore the consequences of democracy in the former Habsburg lands.In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of the long defunct Hapsburg Empire and the more recently dispersed Soviet Empire have been trying to invent their own versions of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Concise Pepys

    by Samuel Pepys, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a prisoner in the Tower of London, twice Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal ... Read more

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  • What about Me?

    the struggle for identity in a market-based society

    by Paul Verhaeghe ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses — even ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Conscious Mind : In Search of a Fundamental Theory

    In Search of a Fundamental Theory

    by David J. Chalmers ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminent figures as Francis Crick Daniel C. Dennett Gerald ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

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