When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves (Nadler Steven)(Pevná vazba)

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves (Nadler Steven)(Pevná vazba)

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. They believe that vaccinations cause autism. They reject the scientific

Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die (Nadler Steven)(Pevná vazba)

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for 'abominable heresies' and 'monstrous deeds,' the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's

Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World (Grimes David Robert)(Paperback)

Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today In our ever-more-polarized society, there's at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all

When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education (Willingham Daniel T.)(Pevná vazba)

Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliable Each year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be 'based on the latest research.' While some of these products are

When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English (Batko Ann)(Paperback)

Ever stumble when choosing between who and whom, affect and effect, 'lay' and 'lie'? Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct? How you use language tells people a good deal

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Bjornerud Marcia)(Pevná vazba)

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days,

Good Economics for Hard Times (Banerjee Abhijit V.)(Pevná vazba)

Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the

Manet: A Symbolic Revolution (Bourdieu Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of douard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of

Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us about Connection, Community, and Ourselves (O'Connell Caitlin)(Pevná vazba)

Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others. Behavioral ecologist and world-renowned elephant scientist Caitlin O'Connell dives into the rituals of elephants, apes, zebras, rhinos, lions, whales, flamingos, and

Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do (Syed Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront our mistakes, learn from our own version of a black box, and create a climate where it's safe to fail. 　We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it's underperforming at a job

Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People (Stout Lynn)(Pevná vazba)

How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperity Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our

Bloom - From Food to Fuel, The Epic Story of How Algae Can Save Our World (Kassinger Ruth)(Pevná vazba)

Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning (Williamson Timothy)(Pevná vazba)

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? In Doing Philosophy, Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and

Beyond Bad: How Obsolete Morals Are Holding Us Back (Paley Chris)(Pevná vazba)

'Vital reading' - THE TIMES 'Brilliantly unillusioned thinking... It could hardly be more necessary in these all-too-moralistic times' - James Marriott, THE TIMES Morals have held empires together, kept soldiers marching under fire, fed the hungry, passed laws, built walls, welcomed immigrants,

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt (Brooks Arthur C.)(Pevná vazba)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an 'outrage industrial complex' that prospers by setting American against American, creating a 'culture of

Show and Tell - How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations (Roam Dan)(Pevná vazba)

Teaches us how to make presentations. This title provides a simple five-step path to take us from jitters and complexity to confidence and

Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life (Pigliucci Massimo)(Pevná vazba)

How should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question lies in combining the wisdom of 24 centuries of philosophy with the latest research from 21st century science. In Answers for Aristotle, Pigliucci argues that the

lost in space - Architecture and Dementia(Pevná vazba)

How can we provide good spatial orientation for people with dementia? This question is addressed extensively in a selection of professional essays and projects that also carve out specific requirements for various disciplines. The book is a useful guide to all disciplines involved in design and

How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders (Suetonius)(Pevná vazba)

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars,

Together - Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection (Murthy Vivek H)(Pevná vazba)

Barack Obama's former Surgeon General explores the global loneliness epidemic - and how we can overcome

The Stone Giant (Hglund Anna)(Pevná vazba)

When her father leaves to save people from a giant who turns them to stone with his gaze, a child in a red dress is left alone. Many days and many nights go by. Every evening the girl says good night to herself in her mirror. When the last light burns down, the girl takes her mirror and a knife and

Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Estreich George)(Pevná vazba)

How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong.From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power

The Hopeful Neighborhood: What Happens When Christians Pursue the Common Good (Everts Don)(Pevná vazba)

Are you tired of hearing people dismiss the church as an irrelevant relic? (Do you secretly wonder if they are right?) Don Everts explores an exciting reality that is revealed in Scripture, shown throughout history, and confirmed in the latest research: when Christians pursue the common good of

When Strangers Meet - How People You Don't Know Can Transform You (Stark Kio)(Pevná vazba)

This book reveals the transformative possibility of talking to people you don't know - a simple yet powerful source of energy in our increasingly circumscribed