Summary: This unabridged collection covers a multitude of subjects, including philosophy, politics, turkeys, and dogs. It includes Ralph Waldo Emerson's ''Self Reliance''; Henry David Thoreau's ''Walking'' and ''Civil Disobedience''; Mark Twain's ''Hunting the Deceitful Turkey''; Benjamin Franklin's ''Reply to a Begging Letter''; and Thomas Paine's ''The American Crisis''. Also includes essays by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Words 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 GRERussell, Bertrand
Summary: Traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 RUSEmpire of the Sun (Musical group)
Contents: Standing On The Shore (4:23) -- Walking On A Dream (3:16) -- Half Mast (3:54) -- We Are the People (4:27) -- Delta Bay (3:12) -- Country (5:04) -- The World (4:36) -- Swordfish Hotkiss Night (3:55) -- Tiger By My Side (5:47) -- Without You (5:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2008
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Summary: Overview: Though creative nonfiction has been around since Montaigne, St. Augustine, and Seneca, we've only just begun to ask how this genre works, why it functions the way it does, and where its borders reside. But for each question we ask, another five or ten questions roil to the surface. And each of these questions, it seems, requires a more convoluted series of answers. What's more, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 FARSummary: What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics-from Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy-and addresses pivotal writings, including Aristotle's Poetics and Morris Weitz's "The Role of Theory...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The mysterious relationship between the mind and the body is avidly being researched by today's cognitive scientists. This program seeks to understand the mind/matter dichotomy through the eyes of some of history's keenest philosophers, including Descartes, Wittgenstein, Leibniz, Mill, Gilbert Ryle, Willard Van Orman Quine, Thomas Nagel, and John Searle. Three of today's leading lights in this...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program explores three major areas of philosophical inquiry into religion: religious epistemology, or the exploration of the rational grounds for religious beliefs and, in particular, the existence of God; the metaphysics of religion, which inquires into the nature of God; and theodicy, which examines the philosophical implications of the presence of evil in the world. Commentary by Alvin...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Does science explain the world, or does it simply describe it? Can science ever be truly objective? What is the boundary between science and non-science? Does nature have laws? This program seeks to answer questions such as these through the insights of Princeton University's Daniel Garber; Hilary Putnam, of Harvard University; and Barry Loewer, of Rutgers University. Ranging from the Physics...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Dubois, Philippe J
Summary: "A French ornithologist and philosopher teach us to pause, look to the sky, and reconnect with the natural world, in twenty-two short lessons inspired by the secret lives of birds. There is a lot we can learn from birds if we pay attention. This elegant volume invites us to take a step back from our busy lives, to reconnect with nature, and to listen to the tiny philosophers of the sky. From...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.15 DUBSummary: In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Hilary Putnam of Harvard examine current philosophical thought that dismisses the primacy and infallibility of mathematical logic and the scientific method. Modern thinkers, such as Einstein, are credited with introducing interpretive logic into their scientific theories.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Darío, Rubén
Summary: From the Publisher: Born in Nicaragua, Ruben Dario is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Dario's writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 DARBayne, Tim
Summary: What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is religious belief only authentic in the absence of these good arguments? In this 'Very Short...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 210 BAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 210 BAYO'Mara, S. M. (Shane M.)
Summary: "Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. Every day, we put one foot in front of the other-yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantagesit gives us? In this book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains. From...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 O'MASummary: Bryan Magee-world-renowned author and professor-and Sir Isaiah Berlin, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and biographer of Karl Marx, answer fundamental questions such as "What is philosophy?" "Why does it matter?" and "Why should anybody be interested in it today?
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "An in-depth look at the philosophical issues behind HBO's Game of Thrones television series and the books that inspired it George R.R. Martin's New York Times bestselling epic fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO television show adapted from it, have earned critical acclaim and inspired fanatic devotion. This book delves into the many philosophical questions that arise in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil JacobyCathcart, Thomas
Summary: The great philosopher Aristotle once said "Humor is the only test of gravity, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious." Taking this tenet to task, Cathart and Klein tackle all the major philosophical perspectives--ancient and postmodern alike--and make them universally accessible through hilarious jokes that cut straight to the core of the principle. Hobbes, for instance,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 102 CATSummary: A century after its inception, analytic philosophy continues to clarify issues through argumentation, analysis, and logical rigor-and to parse out the phenomenon of language. This program scrutinizes the founding of analytic philosophy, the rise of logical positivism, the rejection of metaphysics, and the advent of linguistic philosophy through Russell's Principia Mathematica, Wittgenstein's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The impact of continental philosophy has been tremendous, infusing the humanities with a strange brew made up of energy and insight combined with absurdity and meaninglessness. This program delves deeply into concepts and thought processes that fueled the inquiries of the era's major exponents: Hegel's dialectic, Marx's dialectical materialism, Kierkegaard's lone individual standing before God,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kaag, John J.
Summary: "John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 190 KAASummary: During the 16th century, a new breed of thinker arose, equal parts philosopher and scientist, that threw off the received wisdom of the past and started afresh. In this program, Paul Guyer, of the University of Pennsylvania; Rutgers University's Colin McGinn; and Princeton University's Kwame Anthony Appiah and Daniel Garber address the major philosophical currents of that era-and the explosive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Who should lead the world's only superpower? When is it acceptable to topple another country's leader? Are personal freedom and national security mutually incompatible? The answers to urgent political questions such as these are informed by 23 centuries of discourse that started with The Republic. This program focuses successively on the pivotal ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What is "the good," and why is it that one can never step into the same river twice? This program featuring Princeton University's Alexander Nehamas and Richard Sorabji, honorary fellow at Wolfson College, the University of Oxford, addresses core topics in ancient philosophy such as freedom and fate, permanence and change, happiness, the nature of the cosmos, and the immortality of the soul....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Coheed and Cambria (Musical group)
Contents: The embers of fire -- Beautiful losers -- Comatose -- Shoulders -- A disappearing act -- Love murder one -- Blood -- The liars club -- Bad man -- Our love -- Ladders of supremacy -- Rise, naianasha (cut the cord) -- Window of the waking mind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COHSummary: This program summarizes and distills what we have learned about the great religions in this series. Smith's lifetime of experience and study helps him to go beyond the differences between each tradition. He shows how the cultivation of virtues valued by all religions-intelligence, compassion, creativity, truth, beauty, and goodness-can lead to transcendence. In the many faces of God he has...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007