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Philosophy

Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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Philosophy

Courage to Be Third Edition

Tillich Paul, Cox Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300188790, Yale University Press, May 2014
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, "The Courage to Be" has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Dreams

Turcke Christoph, Gillespie Susan H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300188400, Yale University Press, November 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Why has mankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Turcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrut...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Boredom A Lively History

Toohey Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300181845, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 26 black&white illus.

<p>In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common an...

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Philosophy

Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Traina Cristina L. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Leo Strauss An Intellectual Biography

Tanguay Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300172102, Yale University Press, April 2011
272 pp., 20.1x13 cm

Since political theorist Leo Strauss' death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and...

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Philosophy

After Life

Thacker Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226793726, ISBN: HB: 9780226793719, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Life is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching...

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Philosophy

The French List

Memory as a Remedy for Evil

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9781906497439, Seagull Books, July 2010
86 pp., 17x11.4 cm, 20 halftones

Can humanity be divided into good and evil? And if so, is it possible for the good to vanquish the evil, eradicating it from the face of the Earth by declaring war on evildoers and bringing them to justice? Can we overcome evil by the power of memory...

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Philosophy

History and the Enlightenment

Trevor-Roper Hugh

ISBN: HB: 9780300139341, Yale University Press, February 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of his career – many hitherto i...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Duties and Delights The Life of a Go-Between

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9781905422890, Seagull Books, October 2008
424 pp., 19x15.7 cm

Tzvetan Todorov is one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Beyond his work in cultural and literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Todorov's influence is extraordinarily far-reaching specifically because of the clarity of his writing and his r...

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