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Tired of the same old arguments? Looking for a new fresh challenge? Even think that there is nothing that could really surprise you about this world? Then why not take a look inside; there could be over fifty good reasons to do this. Mentis Ludos represents quite a range of accessible, controversial mind, body, and spiritual challenges that will have you laughing, crying, and developing all manner of ambivalent emotion as you curse and distantly debate some of the mind-blowing concepts presented within. I dont think I ever actively sought subjects that were open to intellectual challenge from the layman right up to the dedicated professional and definitely did not conceive these ideas for th...
About the Book Meet Solly, a likeable PhD with a weakness for cars, self-doubt, and interests spanning belles-lettres to physics. He becomes a rhetoric/literature teacher and RA at CalTech. Unwittingly, Solly gets involved with his students, especially brilliant Darryl, and with the attempt of local mobsters to recruit Darryl to hack into local municipal databases to demand ransom. Darryl's partner in hacking, Fang Lou, has quit school and is working with the mob. Early in his RA role, bachelor Solly meets and falls for Ewa ('Mia') Kulpa, the RA of another undergrad house. The relationship of Mia and Solly develops as the mob ransom hacking escalates until the threads come together in a viol...
This early work by Robin G. Collingwood was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Speculum Mentis' is an academic work on the subject of philosophy. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd February 1889, in Cartmel, England. He was the son of author, artist, and academic, W. G. Collingwood. He was greatly influenced by the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile, and Guido de Ruggiero. Another important influence was his father, a professor of fine art and a student of Ruskin. He published many works of philosophy, such as Speculum Mentis (1924), An Essay on Philosophic Method (1933), and An Essay on Metaphysics (1940).
Presents a collection of bloopers, malapropisms, revisionist histories, and interpretations of history from college students' term papers and blue book examinations.
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