Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy (Pearce Trevor)(Paperback)

Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy (Pearce Trevor)(Paperback)

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution. Many are familiar with John Dewey's 1909

Organism and Environment: Inheritance and Subjectivity in the Life Sciences (Winslow Russell)(Paperback)

Organism and Environment performs an examination into the way the contemporary life sciences are heralding a revolution of the most basic philosophical concepts of the Western world. Analyzing recent research in microbiology and evolution theory, the present book argues that these discourses are

Urban Logistics: Management, Policy and Innovation in a Rapidly Changing Environment (Browne Michael)(Paperback)

Approximately 80 per cent of European and American citizens live in an urban environment. Due to their large populations and extensive commercial establishments, urban areas require large quantities of goods and services for commercial and domestic use. This results in increasing levels of demand

Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Warhol Andy)(Paperback / softback)

The autobiography of an American icon, Andy Warhol's The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is published in Penguin Modern Classics.'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement - was in

Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment (Kilcup Karen L.)(Paperback)

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene (Hetherington Kregg)(Paperback)

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles-sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters,

Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fritsch Matthias)(Paperback)

Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of presence,

Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy (Karatani Kojin)(Paperback)

In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy-published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages-Kōjin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in

Our Common Future (World Commission on Environment and Deve)(Paperback)

In 1983, the U.N. General Assembly created the World Commission on Environment and Development, an independent committee of twenty-two members, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway. Designed to examine global environment and development to the year 2000 and beyond, the

The Purpose Path: A Guide to Pursuing Your Authentic Life's Work (Pearce Nicholas)(Paperback)

Nicholas Pearce shows readers how to build a meaningful career with a moral center and a purpose in the world.The Purpose Path is for people in any field and at any life stage who long to have not just a job or a career, but a true vocation that allows them to connect their soul with their role

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Adamson Peter)(Paperback)

Representing one of the great traditions of Western philosophy, philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world was inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an

Pocketful of Holes and Dreams (Pearce Jeff)(Paperback / softback)

Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough and from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich, which

The Philosophy of Civilization (Schweitzer Albert)(Paperback)

Albert Schweitzer's social and ethical philosophy is best expressed in The Philosophy of Civilization. Not widely available in recent years, this edition will give contemporary readers the opportunity to discover his prophetic thought. In Book I, The Decay and Restoration of Civilization,

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime - (YA edition) (Noah Trevor)(Paperback / softback)

Trevor Noah, host ofThe Daily Show, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa, with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child like him to exist. But he did exist -- and from the beginning, the

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World (Adams Bill)(Paperback)

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice. Green

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease (Sagner Michael)(Paperback)

Dump Philosophy: A Phenomenology of Devastation (Marder Michael)(Paperback)

Ranging across philosophy, theology, ecology, psychology, and art, in Dump Philosophy Michael Marder argues that the earth, along with everything that lives and thinks on it, is at an advanced stage of being converted into a dump for industrial output and its by-products feeding consumerism and its

Trevor Kletz Compendium: His Process Safety Wisdom Updated for a New Generation (Brazier Andy)(Paperback)

Trevor Kletz has had a huge impact on the way people viewed accidents and safety, particularly in the process industries. His ideas were developed from nearly 40 years working in the chemical industry. When he retired from the field, he shared his experience and ideas widely in more than 15 books

Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature (Boffone Trevor)(Paperback)

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avil s, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe Garc a McCall, Domino P rez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham In Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Mudimbe V. Y.)(Paperback)

' . . . groundbreaking . . . clear, straightforward, and economical. . . . seminal . . . ' --American Anthropologist'This is a challenging book . . . a remarkable contribution to African intellectual history.' --International Journal of African Historical Studies'Mudimbe's description of the

Process Philosophy: A Synthesis (Nooteboom Bart)(Pevná vazba)

The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein,

Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity (Uzdavinys Algis)(Paperback)

The ancient philosophy, in its original Orphico-Pythagorean and Platonic form, is not simply a way of life in accordance with the divine or human intellect (nous), but also the way of alchemical transformation and mystical illumination achieved through initiatic 'death' and subsequent restoration

Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

Expressionism in Philosophy is both a pivotal reading of Spinoza's work and also a crucial text within the development of Deleuze's own thought. It was the culmination of a series of monographic studies by Deleuze (on Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Proust, Kant, and Sacher-Masoch), and it prepared the

God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas (Sheen Fulton J.)(Paperback)