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120 full-color plates and 127 black and white illustrations. An extensive biography about the Italian Renaissance artists.
From VOFAN, the star illustrator of the Monogatari series of novels written by NISIOISIN, comes a full-color artbook of his best personal works. Praised by the fans around the world as "The Magician of Light and Shadow from Taiwan", VOFAN is famous for using a vibrant art style combined with unique camera techniques in his art. As the main illustrator for NISIOISIN's novel series for over a decade, VOFAN has illustrated more than 30 book covers and has created dozens of original character designs. Beside his extensive illustration works for NISIOISIN, VOFAN has illustrated magazine covers such as Famitsu and Fancy Frontier Magazine. VOFAN is also the main character designer for the popular Playstation 3 RPG Time and Eternity.
Atlantis is a piece of human history and thus a piece of the history of the planet earth. Most of the current humans have a multitude of human incarnations and human lives behind them, and many of them have lived here on earth in the Atlantis era. Yet, they all carry deep within them: the longing for that time. With this book, we want to give humans back the atlantic part of their history and by doing so, to offer them the opportunity to reconnect consciously; with their very personal roots, but also with the collective history of this planet and thus the human society.
Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. 200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy is designed to demystify jargon-based philosophic language and make you at ease holding a conversation on the topic. Philosophy can be baffling, as well as fascinating, to the best of us. Let Anja Steinbauer guide you through doubt, dialectic, Dao, and much more. The book is written with digestible text enabling a quick and easy understanding of various topics while broadening your philosophical vocabulary. 200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy is one of two new titles beginning a series of smart subjects, also including art, psychology, and music.
In this highly original book, Markus Gabriel offers an account of the human self that overcomes the deadlocks inherent in the standard positions of contemporary philosophy of mind. His view, Neo-Existentialism, is thoroughly anti-naturalist in that it repudiates any theory according to which the ensemble of our best natural-scientific knowledge is able to account fully for human mindedness. Instead, he shows that human mindedness consists in an open-ended proliferation of mentalistic vocabularies. Their role in the human life form consists in making sense of the fact that the human being does not merely blend in with inanimate nature and the rest of the animal kingdom. Humans rely on a self-...
The improvement of cognitive capacities by means of pharmaceuticals or other technical methods originally developed for medical treatment is a field of enhancement that has not yet been explored in depth. However, there is a broad ethical debate about the use of medical or technical means and procedures by healthy people to optimise their mental characteristics due to the increasing pressure to perform and the easier availability of these means. This discourse often runs under headings like neuroenhancement, cognitive enhancement or brain doping.