The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life (Gopnik Alison)(Paperback)

Philosophical Baby - What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love & the Meaning of Life (Gopnik Alison)(Paperback / softback)

For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and young children. Scientists used to believe

Gardener and the Carpenter - What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children (Gopnik Alison)(Paperback / softback)

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Drawing on the study of human evolution and the authorA's own scientific research into how children learn, the author shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a

How Babies Think - The Science of Childhood (Gopnik Alison)(Paperback / softback)

A cutting-edge exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language

The Spirituality of Jane Austen (Hollingsworth Paula)(Paperback)

What her life, literature and letters tell us about Jane Austen's

Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality (Kastrup Bernard)(Paperback)

Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, this book attempts to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational, confronting some of the reader's dearest notions about truth and

The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us about Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future (Robbins Jim)(Paperback)

Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind: What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds (Cardella Valentina)(Paperback)

This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind. Drawing on the expertise of leading academics, the book discusses how psychopathology

The Roman Market Economy (Temin Peter)(Paperback)

What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern

The Moral Meaning of Nature: Nietzsche's Darwinian Religion and Its Critics (Woodford Peter J.)(Pevná vazba)

What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? The Moral Meaning of Nature sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an earlier--and unjustly neglected--discussion of

The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us (Knight Douglas a.)(Paperback)

In The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us, preeminent biblical scholars Douglas A. Knight and Amy-Jill Levine deliver a broad and engaging introduction to the Old Testament--also known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible--offering a wealth of

Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It (Setter Jane)(Paperback)

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in this engaging introduction to the power and the science of the voice. The book first takes us on a

Truant (Clare Horatio)(Paperback / softback)

'I'm going to tell the truth', I said suddenly, 'about what we did and why, and what it did to

On the Meaning of Life (Cottingham John)(Paperback)

The question 'What is the meaning of life?' is one of the most fascinating, oldest and most difficult questions human beings have ever posed themselves. In an increasingly secularized culture, it remains a question to which we are ineluctably and powerfully drawn.Drawing skillfully on a wealth of

Seeing Myself - What Out-of-body Experiences Tell Us About Life, Death and the Mind (Blackmore Susan)(Paperback / softback)

A new popular psychology title exploring the science behind out-of-body & tunnel experiences (OBEs) from astral projection to near death experiences from a renowned psychologist in the field of

The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves (Kandel Eric R.)(Paperback)

A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist's probing investigation of what brain disorders can tell us about human nature Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science

Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy (The School of Life)(Pevná vazba)

A fun and engaging book designed to harness and develop children's natural philosophical interest.Without prompting children often ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of life. Yet all too often their inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, the

Jesus the God-Man: The Unity and Diversity of the Gospel Portrayals (Bock Darrell L.)(Paperback)

What the Gospels Tell Us about Who Jesus IsThis clear, compact introduction surveys what the Gospels tell us about who Jesus is by exploring his teachings and actions in their contexts. Darrell Bock, a leading evangelical New Testament scholar who speaks and teaches around the world, and Benjamin

Wonderful Life (Gould Stephen Jay)(Paperback / softback)

In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale might tell us about evolution and the nature of history. The Darwinian theory of evolution is a well-known, well-explored

The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (Young Julian)(Paperback)

What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition

Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-Of-Life Care (Ellison Koshin Paley)(Paperback)

This book isn't about dying. It's about life and what life has to teach us. It's about caring and what giving care really means. In Awake at the Bedside, pioneers of palliative and end-of-life care as well as doctors, chaplains, caregivers and even poets offer wisdom that will challenge, uplift,

Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs (Kierkegaard Soren)(Paperback)

'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of

Nature Spirits of the Trees and What They Want to Tell Us: Messages from the Beings of the Trees (Stal Von Holstein Verena)(Paperback)

'People often ask us about the best way to come close to nature and the beings enchanted within it. One way to do so is through wonder and astonishment, to open our senses fully to nature's beauty and wisdom. And here we can encounter entities that most closely resemble human beings--the

Sum - Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Eagleman David)(Paperback / softback)

What happens to us when we die? And what does that tell us about being

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (Malm Andreas)(Paperback)

What does the COVID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it? The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and