Gottlieb, Anthony
Summary: "Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in his sequel, The Dream of Enlightenment,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 190 GOTThem (Musical group)
Contents: The story of Them, parts 1 & 2 -- Don't start crying now -- Gloria -- Philosophy -- One two brown eyes -- Baby, please don't go -- Here comes the night -- All for myself -- One more time -- Little girl -- I gave my love a diamond -- Go on home, baby -- My little baby -- Mystic eyes -- Don't look back -- If you and I could be as two -- I like it like that -- I'm gonna dress in black -- (Get your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deram 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THEGrosvenor, Emily
Summary: "A fresh, smart, and inspiring lifestyle book that shows you how to create an empowering home environment by changing the messages you are telling yourself within your own four walls. Award-winning magazine editor and certified Feng Shui consultant Emily Grosvenor invites us to a reality where our homes hold limitless opportunities to create meaning, shape behavior, and inspire action. Drawing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Prism 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.3 GROJudah, Hettie
Summary: "Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history. Through the realms of art, myth, geology, philosophy, and power, the author tells the story of humanity through the minerals and materials that have allowed humans to evolve and create. Lapidarium uses the stories of these sixty stones...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553.8 JUDNadler, Steven M.
Summary: "This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world ... Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NADRand, Ayn.
Summary: The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of objectivism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 1996
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Summary: " ... Draws out the philosophy that lies behind each story in Homer's epic tale to introduce children not only to the exciting fables of Odysseus, but also to that other great Greek tradition, philosophy. Explore with Odysseus the value of happiness, non-existent entities, moral dilemmas, the philosophy of prophecy, and the nature of love ..." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum International Pub. Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.67 WORKiger, John I.
Summary: A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the journey from vine to bottle. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world--the host of animals, insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses that are capable of sabotaging a promising vintage right under the nose of an unsuspecting grower. Highlighting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.8 KIGBrisson, Luc.
Summary: The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 184 BRISummary: 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: He made his first million at eighteen. Today, Sir Richard Branson heads an empire of international businesses that includes airlines, railroads, mobile phones, and cosmetics. In this intimate, dynamic portrait of his life, Branson talks about his upbringing, his entrepreneurial philosophy, and the story of his many successful ventures. In settings as diverse as his home in Oxford, a limo in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Huston Smith has devoted his life to study of the ineffable experience. This program opens windows of understanding into the renowned mystic philosopher's unceasing quest for truth about the ultimate nature of reality as he shares the story of his early decades: growing up in China in a missionary family, preparation for a career in the ministry, the "aha!" moment in college that redirected him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Orzel, Chad
Summary: "Sharp and engaging, A Brief History of Timekeeping is a story not just about the science of sundials, sandglasses, and mechanical clocks, but also the politics of calendars and time zones, the philosophy of measurement, and the nature of space and time itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.1 ORZSteinke, Darcey
Summary: By weaving together her personal story with philosophy, science, art, and literature, the author provides an exploration into aspects of menopause that have rarely been written about, including the changing gender landscape that reduced levels of hormones brings, the actualities of transforming desires, and the realities of prejudice against older women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 STESummary: At Camphill Village U.S.A., there are no patients and no caregivers. Only villagers live and work there-people with and without mental disabilities whose joint mission is to help each other enjoy meaningful lives. This program uses scenes of community activities and interviews with villagers to explore the Camphill movement's remarkably effective group living model. Camphill Village U.S.A.,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006