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Philosophy

Ethics of Oneness Emerson, Whitman, and the "Bhagavad Gita"

Engels Jeremy David

ISBN: PB: 9780226746029, ISBN: HB: 9780226745978, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political structures spread, we are left wondering about our ties to each other. Consequently, there is no better...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Durand Pierre M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...

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Technology & Engineering

Philosophy

Engineering Ethics Contemporary and Enduring Debates

Johnson Deborah G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209242, Yale University Press, July 2020
216 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a...

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Philosophy

Essential Works of Thomas More

More Thomas, Wegemer Gerard B., Smith Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300223378, Yale University Press, February 2020
1520 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 102 black&white illus.

In this book, Wegemer and Smith assemble More's most important English and Latin works for the first time in a single volume. This volume reveals the breadth of More's writing and includes a comprehensive selection of his works on theology, political...

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Philosophy

Ethics and Practice in Science Communication

Priest Susanna, Goodwin Jean, Dahlstrom Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226497815, ISBN: HB: 9780226540603, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

From climate to vaccination, stem-cell research to evolution, scientific work is often the subject of public controversies in which scientists and science communicators find themselves enmeshed. Especially with such hot-button topics, science communi...

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Christianity

Political Science

Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State

Johnson Paul Christopher, Klassen Pamela E., Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones

"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Everyday Mysticism A Contemplative Community at Work in the Desert

Glucklich Ariel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212099, Yale University Press, February 2018
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

In this thoughtful and enlightening work, world renowned religion scholar Ariel Glucklich recounts his experiences at Neot Smadar, an ecological and spiritual oasis that has been thriving in the arid Southern Israeli desert for a quarter century. An...

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Education

Philosophy

Education and Equality

Allen Danielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...

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Philosophy

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226500256, ISBN: HB: 9780226500119, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory v...

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Philosophy

Edge of Reason A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

Baggini Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780300228724, ISBN: HB: 9780300208238, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving – or even discussing – divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animal...

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