Blum, Yoav
Summary: "The Coincidence Makers tells the story of Guy, Emily & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives. The three graduated from a "coincidence creation course" that took place 2 years prior to the events in the book, in which they learned techniques for creating what look like random events which will cause people to change their own lives. Fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUSheldon, Kennon M. (Kennon Marshall)
Summary: "For centuries, philosophers have debated the question of free will. Do we make our own choices? Or are we more like rudderless ships drifting on the ocean, buffeted by winds and currents outside ourselves? In TK, research psychologist Ken Sheldon reveals that the way we answer these questions has serious implications for our wellbeing. We may never know for certain whether free will exists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 123 SHEHalpern, Julie
Summary: In a world where the name of one's "meant to be" mate appears on one's chest at age eighteen, Aggy must decide whether to trust the phenomenon or follow her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Nichols, Shaun
Summary: By explaining the fundamental approaches to this familiar debate, Professor Nichols thoroughly prepares you for an in-depth study of the complexities of free will and determinism. You discover what great thinkers through the ages believe about the choices we make and understand how we might deal with their implications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 190 NICVonnegut, Kurt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONSummary: Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe, and to raise even more philosophical questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Science 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THRHarris, Duchess
Summary: "The Thirteenth Amendment is one of the most important acts in the legal history of the United States. It is often said that the amendment abolished slavery. But its legacy is more complicated than that. The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery except as a form of punishment. Southerners seized on this loophole. They unjustly arrested thousands of Black people. Black convicts were forced to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J325.2609 HARSapolsky, Robert M.
Summary: "One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences Robert Sapolsky's Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 TANLevine, Bruce E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.40973 LEVHarris, Sam
Summary: The author argues that free will is an illusion, but that this does not undermine morality or lessen the importance of social and political freedom, but it should change the way people think about important questions in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 123.5 HARTan, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 TANDennett, Daniel Clement.
Summary: "Four billion years ago, there was no freedom on our planet, because there was no life. What kinds of freedom have evolved since the origin of life? Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? If you are free, are you responsible for being free, or just lucky?" "In Freedom Evolves, Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained, sets out to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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Summary: Left on a doorstep after his illegal au pair mother exacts a brutal revenge on his father, Edward is raised by an adoring family and grows up to become a famous billionaire Internet tycoon who hurtles toward a fate that he is powerless to control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTTomeo, Teresa.
Summary: Scripture tells us only God knows the desires of our hearts. It was, after all, God who placed them there because they are designed to lead us to His will for our lives. Why, then, is it so challenging at times to figure out if we are on the right track when it comes to what we believe we want or need? God's Bucket List will examine what God wants for each of us: mercy, fruitfulness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 TOMGuterson, David.
Summary: In Seattle, 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary, "a guy who weighs risk for a living", takes a risk of his own, and makes the biggest error of his life. He sleeps with Diane, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who's taking care of his children for the summer. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GUTWegner, Daniel M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 WEGVillanueva, Gail D.
Summary: Sneaking into her grandfather's potions lab to brew a love spell that she hopes will stop a classmate's bullying, herbalist trainee Jolina is surprised by the bully's increasingly friendly overtures, before a magically consequential storm begins to gather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VILDickerson, Matthew T.
Contents: Epic battles -- The wise of Middle-Earth -- Military victory or moral victory? -- Human freedom and creativity -- The gift of Ilúvatar and the power of the ring -- Moral responsibility and stewardship -- Hope and despair -- Themes of salvation -- The hand of Ilúvatar -- Ilúvatar's theme and the real war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 DICMeyers, Robin R.
Summary: A revelatory manifesto on how we can reclaim faith from abstract doctrines and rigid morals to find God in the joys and ambiguities of everyday life, from the acclaimed author of Saving Jesus from the Church. People across the theological and political spectrum are struggling with what it means to say that they believe in God. For centuries, Christians have seen him as a deity who shows favor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 MEYMukherjee, Neel
Summary: "How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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North, Ryan
Summary: "The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the world's seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia 2020