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The Imagination Muscle is the story of our greatest gift - the imagination.

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Part travelogue, part spiritual self-help book; A modern-day pilgrimage to ten monasteries around the world.

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With a light touch, Matters of Lunch and Death distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a collection of fascinating arguments on life, death, laughter and laziness.

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With a light touch, Logic and Monsters distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a collection of fascinating arguments on unicorns, sugar lumps, perforated socks and other puzzling objects.

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A unique collection of works that marked the development of philosophy from classical times to the new millennium.

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Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality. This accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events and seminal publications in the field.

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The Granta backlist classic: a collection of short, accessible philosophical quandaries to stimulate, challenge and entertain!

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One of the world's leading thinkers on truth explains what it is, the different ways of approaching and understanding it, and why it matters.

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Science historian Subhadra Das explores ten founding ideas of Western civilisation, uncovers their flaws and urges us to look at the world with fresh eyes

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What do we talk about, when we talk about progress

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This volume probes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the context of epistemological decolonization and the (South) African scholarly transformation project. The contributors map out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.

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The book is a protest against some geopolitical agendas which are pushing the world toward a major global war, and possibly toward a nuclear apocalypse. As an antidote, the book issues a call to people everywhere to oppose this rush to destruction and to restore the "wholeness of humanity" through the quest for just peace.

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Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmakers work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine.

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding, and is one of the classic philosophical works of the seventeenth century.

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This book comprehensively examines the aesthetic views of Thomas Aquinas, treating both the objective nature and the subjective human experience of beauty. It locates Aquinass views in their historical context and illustrates their relations to other popular aesthetic views.

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Drawing on insights from Sren Kierkegaard (18131855), Art and Selfhood: A Kierkegaardian Account defends the idea that art matters in our society today because it can play a pivotal role in helping us become better and more authentic versions of ourselves.

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The last in Tony Fry's trilogy of books published by Berg continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design presents a provocative reading of human 'evolution' centred on ontological design, where the relation between the formation of the world of human fabrication and the making of mankind is seen as indivisible.

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A readable summary of the most important theories, events and seminal publications in the field of philosophy over the last 3500 years.

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This book investigates the chaotic end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean through the lens of Homeric poetry, with an emphasis on the description of piratical activities described in the Odysseys Second Cretan Lie, and on the impact of revolutionary seafaring technology in this watershed period in Mediterranean history.

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An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.

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Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Confucian texts as a vision of Ren with Dao with the unity of heaven, earth, and humanity, in order to reclaim the egalitarian aspects and develop openness for gender equity with integration of feminist critical care ethics.