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Budge, a prestigious Egyptologist, includes a translation of secret religious papyri, a history of Egyptian religion, and a helpful English translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This is a reprint of the classic work first published in 1906.

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Brings together over thirty philosophers to engage in wide-ranging discussion on the troubling, exciting, and fascinating issues raised in and amidst the excitement and fear of Orson Scott Card's novels and Gavin Hood's film.

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In his antireligious "Essay On Miracles", David Hume reiterates a simple message: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish".

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Specialists on both sides of the doctrinal-ideological divide regarding the European philosophy of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard offer their views here. Some see the influence of Derrida and others as benign or insignificant; others perceive it as bad for academic standards.

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Kathleen Lennon provides a new approach to the philosophy of action, showing how "reasons" fit into the casual framework of the world, while defending their autonomy. She disputes the rapidly-congealing orthodoxy which maintains that explanations according to intentional states cannot be casual explanations.

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Kathleen Lennon provides a new approach to the philosophy of action, showing how "reasons" fit into the casual framework of the world, while defending their autonomy. She disputes the rapidly-congealing orthodoxy which maintains that explanations according to intentional states cannot be casual explanations.

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Skepticism, the view that reliable knowledge is beyond our grasp, has defied refutation throughout the history of philosophy. This work argues that skepticism cannot be avoided as long as knowledge is considered purely as an intellectual matter.

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Explores what Facebook means for us and for our relationships. This title discusses issues ranging from the nature of friendship and its relationship to 'friending', to the efficacy of 'online activism'.

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This collection of lectures - given at a symposium of evil by prominent scholars, writers, theologians and philosophers - resonates powerfully as we continue to confront the devastation wrought by even a single individual caught in the grip of evil.

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Family Pictures reveals the application that classical philosophical questions have to our aspirations, emotional ties with others, jobs, concrete relationships, and daily routines.

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An enchanting preface by Newbery Award winner Jane Yolen introduces this collection of 15 dragon stories from England, Western and Eastern Europe, Korea, Japan, and China. Illustrations.

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The story of cultural contact between Dixon, Illinois, the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan and Dickson (or Dikson), Siberia, the northernmost town in the world, a place where polar bears are a traffic hazard, and a restricted area of the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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This contribution to economic philosophy considers Marx's pronouncements on the organization of future society, and in this context re-examines the long-lasting debate triggered by Mises's argument that modern industrial production requires a system of spontaneously-formed market prices.

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This contribution to economic philosophy considers Marx's pronouncements on the organization of future society, and in this context re-examines the long-lasting debate triggered by Mises's argument that modern industrial production requires a system of spontaneously-formed market prices.

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This is a true story which tells how the author, a journalist-turned-college professor, dealt with Generation X - jaded, unachieving, highly demanding youth. Sacks analyses his experience in the context of recent social changes, and concludes that Generation X consists of genuine postmoderns.

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Seven of the 20th century's greatest thinkers describe how they arrived at the ideas for which they are now known. The seven great thinkers are: A.J. Ayer, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Bertrand Russell, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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The author of this text aims to show that revenge is a required form of justice that should be incorporated into the criminal justice system. He argues that the current system disempowers those who are victims of crime, the accused and their respective communities.

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The author of this text aims to show that revenge is a required form of justice that should be incorporated into the criminal justice system. He argues that the current system disempowers those who are victims of crime, the accused, and their respective communities.

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An introduction to Godel's ideas on cosmology, physics, maths, and their philosophical implications. By explaining "Godel universes", models he proposed to solve the field equations of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the author shows what Godel's theory implies: time travel is possible.

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