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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Gifford, Clive
Summary: "How does a spacesuit work? What is a probe? What are the parts of a Mars rover? Readers discover the answers to these and many more questions about the technology used to explore space in this fun and fact-filled guide to a high-interest science topic. Detailed and informative images are the focal point of this learning experience, with each chapter devoted to full-color photographs, diagrams,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.4 GIFAdamson, Peter
Summary: In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this remains one of the lesser-known philosophical traditions. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Adamson explores the history of philosophy among Muslims, Jews, and Christians living in Islamic lands, from its historical background to thinkers in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181.07 ADAYo La Tengo (Musical group)
Contents: Sinatra Avenue Drive -- Fallout -- Tonight's episode -- Aselestine -- Until it happens -- Apology letter -- Brain capers -- This stupid world -- Miles away.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Matador 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YOTaylor, James
Contents: Disc 1. Today today today (3:09) -- You and I again (3:53) -- Angels of Fenway (3:18) -- Stretch of the highway (5:32) -- Montana (3:26) -- Watchin' over me (4:07) -- Before this world/Jolly springtime (5:34) -- Far Afghanistan (4:04) -- Wild mountain thyme (2:57) -- disc 2. There we were: the recording of James Taylor's Before this world.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TaySummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil JacobyLang, Jonny.
Contents: Still rainin' (4:49) -- Second guessing (5:10) -- I am (5:04) -- Breakin' me (4:32) -- Wander this world (4:49) -- Walking away (4:14) -- The levee (3:41) -- Angel of mercy (4:30) -- Right back (3:59) -- Leaving to stay (4:35) -- Before you hit the ground (3:55) -- Cherry red wine (3:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A&M 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LANSummary: 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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Taylor, James
Contents: Today Today Today (3:09) -- You And I Again (3:53) -- Angels Of Fenway (3:18) -- Stretch Of The Highway (5:32) -- Montana (3:26) -- Watchin' Over Me (4:08) -- SnowTime (5:49) -- Before This World / Jolly Springtime (5:35) -- Far Afghanistan (4:04) -- Wild Mountain Thyme (2:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 2015
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Guinness World Records Limited
Summary: "The world's most popular record book is back with thousands of new categories and newly broken records, covering everything from outer space to sporting greats via Instagram, fidget spinners and all manner of human marvels. Inside you'll find hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and countless facts, figures, stats and trivia waiting for you on every action-packed page. Guinness World...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Guinness World Records Limited 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 031.02 GUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 031.02 GUTBackstreet Boys
Contents: In a world like this -- Permanent stain -- Breathe -- Madeleine -- Show 'em (What you're made of) -- Make believe -- Try -- Trust me -- Love somebody -- One phone call -- Feels like home -- Soldier.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BACSummary: The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Oxford novelist Iris Murdoch. Style and structure in philosophical writing are compared and contrasted with those in literature. The narrative abilities of Plato, Schopenhauer, and Kant are examined. Philosophy's predilection for accepting only literature that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, and exploring all of the most important branches of thought, including philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and feminist philosophy in a uniquely visual way, this resource is the perfect introduction to the subject.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 HOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil HowSummary: 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: 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...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150 BRUSummary: 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?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Explains the history of philosophy and demystifies some of its most hard-to-grasp concepts. This is done by arranging the philosophers in chronological order from 700 BCE and Thales of Miletus to the present and Slavoj Zizek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2011
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Contents: Six blocks away -- Prove my love -- Something about what happens when we talk -- Memphis pearl -- Sidewalks of the city -- Sweet old world -- Little angel, little brother -- Pineola -- Lines around your eyes -- Drivin' down a dead end street -- Hot blood -- Which will -- Bonus tracks: Factory blues ; What you don't know ; Wild and blue ; Dark side of life.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WILSummary: 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