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  • Why Does Anything Exist?

    An Introductory Exploration

    by Stephen A. Simon ...
    Why is there something, rather than nothing? This simple yet confounding question resonates with almost every curious person. In this thoughtful and provocative book, Stephen A. Simon surveys five answers that have been offered to this question from a variety of perspectives: science, religion, philosophy, and even mathematics. Framed by a careful explication of the history and meaning of its ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The U.S. Supreme Court and the Domestic Force of International Human Rights Law

    by Stephen A. Simon ...
    The core idea underlying human rights is that everyone is inherently and equally worthy of respect as a person. The emergence of that idea has been one of the most significant international developments since the Second World War. But it is one thing to embrace something as an aspirational ideal and quite another to recognize it as enforceable law. The continued development of the international ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Universal Rights and the Constitution

    by Stephen A. Simon ...
    Series series SUNY series in American Constitutionalism
    Innovative examination of the tensions between universal and more uniquely American definitions of cherished rights.Are constitutional rights based exclusively in uniquely American considerations, or are they based at least in part on principles that transcend the boundaries of any particular country, such as the requirements of freedom or dignity? By viewing constitutional law through the prism ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Last Man Who Knew Everything

    by Mike ...
    Three hundred years ago, it was still possible for an intelligent person to have read all of the books that constituted the whole knowledge base of the world.Three hundred years ago, most intelligent people in the world believed that the world was a holistic, living organism of some kind, imbued with mind and divinity: matter was alive (hylozoism), or mind was everywhere (panpsychism), or God was ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aristotle's Revenge

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

    by Edward Feser ...
    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • On Creativity

    by David Bohm ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and of imagination but also that of perception and of discovery. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern tim ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Causation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

    by Mike ...
    The cleverest people in the world are those most capable of making the least expected connections between apparently disparate things. This book explains how light, life, mind, souls, causation, motion, energy, ontological mathematics and ontological reason are all synonymous.Are you one of the rare few capable of seeing the light? Can you see the hidden mathematical order beneath the Grand ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Science of Monads

    by Mike ...
    If a scientific materialist were asked to sum up his belief system, he might reflect exactly what Richard Feynman, a pope of science, said: "If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Forbidden History of Science

    by Mike ...
    "The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer." – Terence McKennaAt school, you are taught "science". You are not taught the history of science, so you have no idea how science came to be the institution it now is. Above all, you have no idea that science is a vast, rigid system of dogmatism and ideology, an inflexible paradigm, an incomplete and inconsistent set of heuristic ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free Will and Will to Power

    by Mike ...
    Are you free, or are you a machine that suffers from a delusion that it's free? Free will is perhaps the most important subject of all because if we are authentically free, scientific materialism is ipso facto false, and the world is in urgent need of a revolutionary paradigm shift. This book shows that free will has a most unexpected advocate – mathematics. Only in a mathematical universe can we ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Psychophysics

    by Mike ...
    One hundred percent of scientists think that Einstein's special theory of relativity is correct. One hundred percent of scientists are wrong. Isn't that astounding? Why is it so hard for scientists to see the blatant errors in Einstein's logic?The central reason for the failure of Einstein's theory as an account of ultimate existence is that, like everything else in science, it denies the real ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus