Summary: "How did the universe begin? What is truth? How can we live good live? The Little Book of Philosophy answers these questions and more. Packed with simple explanations, witty illustrations, and step-by-step diagrams that untangle complex theories, you'll find plenty of food for thought in this book, whether you're a novice, a student, or an armchair philosopher"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 LITNadler, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NADSummary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000