Essays on Mind

Reducere. Fashion is a big bubble, and sometimes I feel like popping it. - Alexander McQueen, 2009 This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Roger TeichmannNumber of pages: 240Collection: Anthem Studies in WittgensteinPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

This book features papers from CEPE-IACAP 2015, a joint international conference focused on the philosophy of computing. Inside, readers will disco...

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Contributor(s): Author: Bertrand RussellA collection of philosophical essays by famed British thinker Bertrand Russell, "The Analysis of Mind" cont...

Reducere. " These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, an...

Reducere. DescriptionThe unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. What is it? What does it take to have it? What does it presuppose in what ...

Reducere. A selection of twenty-nine essays. " Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everyth...

Winner of the Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Award; the Sacramento Publishers' Association awards for Best Nonfiction and Best Spiritual book; and ...

Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.

Reducere. Media studies has been catching up with McLuhan over the last 50 years. These essays are drawn from the most productive quarter-century of his care...

Reducere. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important and influential philosophers in modern times, but he is also one of the least accessib...

Reducere. Something to Think About: Random Thoughts on the Christian Faith is a collection of some of the many unpublished essays that Thomas Mockoviak has w...

Reducere. DescriptionQuantum physics, unlike classical physics, suggests a non-physicalistic metaphysics. Whereas physicalism implies a reductive position in...

Reducere. A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional natu...

DescriptionSix essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary by Minsky'...

"Sullivan offers a] profound, often beautiful appreciation of friendship. . . . He can] fascinate us with the range and depth of his mind."--San Fr...

Reducere. Like the two earlier volumes of Bernard Williams' papers published by Cambridge University Press, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, Making Sense...

In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical ex...

Alan Jacobs is fond of the essay because it lets a writer do something that more formal pieces of writing cannot: follow the "vagaries of the mind,...

Reducere. A pivotal work in the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" puts forth many of the foundational ideas ...

Reducere. The idea that plants have a mind of their own has been a prominent feature of some Indigenous narratives, literary works, and philosophical discour...

Exploring Body-Mind Centering features 35 essays on Body-Mind Centering (BMC), an experiential practice based on the application of anatomical, phy...

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"I've gained deeper understanding listening to Rupert Spira than I have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Reality is sending us a mes...

Fresh insights into the thought and work of the modernist architect, from Loos expert Christopher LongIn this collection of essays, noted architect...

Reducere. In fifteen essays, sigmund freud explains his most controversial theories exposing the darkest corners of the human psyche. Best known for his rese...

Reducere. "Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence ...

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epi...

Reducere. From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, an...

Reducere. With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-...

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical--Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish cul...

Reducere. This collection of stories and essays takes its title from a long prose reverie in which Henry Miller, after his return to the United States, think...

A collection of up-to-the-minute and timely essays from Zadie Smith, on writing, literature, bad movies, family and philosophy. Some are published ...

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Reducere. Engaging the Anomalous is a collection of essays written by Jack Hunter between 2010-17. Together, the essays push toward the development of a non-...

In Theological Territories, David Bentley Hart, one of America's most eminent contemporary writers on religion, reflects on the state of theology a...

Reducere. Academia isn't an easy place to be if your brain isn't quite right.Colleagues carelessly call each other ``schizo`` and ``bipolar.`` Another collea...

Reducere. This book is the second in Carol Robinson's Collected Works series. Her penetrating and original analysis of the modern world show the fruit of a m...

After retirement from a career in medicine, the author turned his acute and wide-ranging mind to the study of the history and traditions of his nat...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Life of the Mind Interrupted comes an essay collection "rich in vulnerability and candor."How do we make a good life...

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "Any ...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He's taken sf to places it...

This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the dau...

Reducere. The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the U...

The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of body-centered psychotherapies, which stress the cent...

Reducere. "A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lu...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is it like to live with dissociative identity disorder? How does the brain respond to chronic, extreme trauma? Is recovery possible...

This selection of essays, book-reviews, broadcast talks and papers delivered to learned societies reflects the extraordinary breadth of Arthur Koes...

Reducere. Fernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by "thousands of philosophies, " all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-l...

E.M. Forster observed, "One does not come to Italy for niceness. One comes for life". And there is life abounding in this rhapsodic, witty, and lus...

Reducere. New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her r...

Reducere. The only contemporary moral problems text to focus directly on the ethics of current, divisive political issues, Ethics, Left and Right features ne...

Reducere. Brief essays by New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry on memorials and mercy, storms and farewells, family and fowl, barnyard ballets, th...

Reducere. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we ...

Reducere. H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagi...

Reducere. Why can we not learn a damn thing from the likes of Semco, or Toyota?Why are today s companies out of balance, structure-wise?Why are "flat hierarc...

Reducere. In this incisive collection of speeches and essays, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have l...

Reducere. Understand the psychopath. Understand yourself. This book is the second collection of writings from the insightful and unique blog, Psychopaths and...

Reducere. Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies is a collection of lyrical and critical essays offering keen insight into a very wide range of topics: from prob...

Reducere. Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploring Get Out's roots in the horror tradition and its com...

Reducere. Detective, monk, father, herbalist, Crusader, sailor, Celt, friend-author Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedict...

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and...

I (Still) Believe explores the all-important question of whether serious academic study of the Bible is threatening to one's faith. Far from it--fa...

This Swiss composer's conceptual and practical guide to the mind/body overlap in music and martial artsOver the past 20 years, Swiss musician and c...

``The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts, `` writes Francis Schaeffer. ``A Christian should use these arts to the glory of G...

Contributor(s): Editor: John Jeremiah SullivanEditor: Robert Atwan"A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on t...

DescriptionThis book is a multi-faceted exploration and critique of the human condition as it is presently manifested. It addresses science and phi...

Reducere. Change in View offers an entirely original approach to the philosophical study of reasoning by identifying principles of reasoning with principles ...

Reducere. America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50...