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When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask A Philosopher
How can Kant comfort you when you get dumped via text message? How can Aristotle cure your hangover? How can Heidegger make you feel better when your dog dies? When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher explains how pearls of wisdom from the greatest Western philosophers can help us face and make light of some of the daily challenges of modern life. In twelve clever, accessible chapters, you'll get advice from Epicurus about how to disconnect from constant news alerts and social media updates, Nietzsche’s take on getting in shape, John Stuart Mill’s tips for handling bad birthday presents, and many other ancient pearls of wisdom to help you navigate life today. Hilarious, practical, and edifying, When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher brings the best thinkers of the past into the 21st Century to help us all make sense of a chaotic new world.
Keep It Together
Harness the power of ideas to overcome the hurdles of daily life, with advice from the greatest Western philosophers. This international bestseller will introduce you to twelve thinkers who can help you to keep it together, even when everything in your life seems to be falling apart. You'll get advice from Epicurus about how to disconnect from digital media, Aristotle’s help with curing hangovers, Nietzsche’s take on getting in shape, John Stuart Mill’s tips for dealing with nightmare social occasions, and many other classic insights to help you navigate life today. This is philosophy for the real world: the key ideas that can guide you through life’s difficult times, when you’re angry, embarrassed, scared, or confused. It turns out that many of our contemporary crises are far from new. As teacher and philosophy professor Marie Robert shows, sometimes the best solutions to modern problems are timeless.
It Runs in the family
Sara and Marie dreams of a life of physical beauty, spiritual greatness, pride, success, and wreath, in a typical adolescent rebellion, Marie sneaks away from her parents' house to a friend's party, where she meets John Baker.
The Golden Rose
Raised in wealth with every imaginable privilege, Rose Marie Le Sant seemed to have everything that a woman could want except for one thing. She had never believed that her beautiful, carefree parents had really loved her and she had grown up with a terrible void in her life, a void that she knew would only be filled by the love of one man. The captain of the Raven was captivated as well as frustrated by the beautiful, impetuous Rose Marie. From the moment Ross Chandler found her stowed away aboard his ship, he had desired her. But there had been other beautiful women in his life before, beautiful women who had betrayed him and Ross had vowed never to risk his heart again, not even for Rose ...
Friends of the Constitution
There were many writers other than John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton who, in 1787 and 1788, argued for the Constitution's ratification. In a collection central to our understanding of the American founding, Friends of the Constitution brings together forty-nine of the most important of these "other" Federalists' writings. Colleen A. Sheehan is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Gary L. McDowell is the Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Professor of Leadership Studies, Political Science, and Law at the University of Richmond in Virginia. From 1992 to 2003 he was the Director of the Institute of United States Studies in the University of London.
Two Lives Up on the Hill
T he story of Marie Cameron and Jim Kelly whose lives are lived in the beautiful village of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Marie, a lawyer, lives a quality and privilege life. Jim, a carpenter, lives a plain and simple life. Th eir combined stories make for an unforgettable tale that spans 40 years.
Samantha's Life
The book starts out with Samantha leaving home to go to college. Throughout the book you see how she has a lot of bad luck while she goes through life trying to find happiness. She marries, divorces, dates many men and even gets a job on Capitol Hill. ForeWord Clarion Book Review
Enlightenment Biopolitics
A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the Enlightenment when emancipatory ideals sat alongside the horrors of colonialism, slavery, and race-based discrimination. In fact, these did not just coexist, Nelson argues; they were actually mutually constitutive of Enlightenment ideals. In this book, Nelson focuses on Enlightenment-era visions of eugenics (including proposals to establish programs of selective breeding), forms of penal slavery, and sp...
Psycho: Sanitarium
The legendary Norman Bates returns... The original Psycho novel by Robert Bloch was published in 1959 and became an instant hit, leading to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film a year later. Norman Bates’s terrifying story has been seared in the public consciousness ever since. It took Bloch 23 years to write another Psycho novel, revealing that Norman had been in a mental institution the entire time. But what happened in that asylum during those two decades? Until now, no one has known. It's 1960. Norman Bates is in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and it's up to Dr. Felix Reed to bring him out of his catatonic state. Dr. Reed must face both twisted patients and colleagues who th...
