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Life and Mind

This volume provides a broad overview of some cutting-edge philosophical topics of growing interest at the juncture between cognitive science and biology. The main goal is not to integrate the variety of …

Vienna Blood Season 2 (UK Import)

1900s Vienna, a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Max Liebermann is a brilliant young English doctor and studen…

Life and Mind

In recent times, the philosophy of science has been reinvigorated by insights from the biological and cognitive sciences. These disciplines have provided not only new perspectives to approach traditional …

Jerry Goldsmith

Star Trek (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

John Oakes

The Fast

"An engaging exploration of the unique history and biology of fasting-an essential component of many traditional health practices, religions, and philosophies, resurging in popularity today-perfect f…

Stephen Mulhall

The Ascetic Ideal

Stephen Mulhall traces the development of an ideal of asceticism through Western culture. He shows how influential this self-denying attitude to life has been not just in religion and morality but in aest…

Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt

A Natural History of Natural Theology

An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God.Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which s…

Marcus P Adams

Hobbes's Two Sciences

Is politics a science ? Hobbes's Two Sciences explores how Seventeenth Century Philosopher Thomas Hobbes answered this question in the affirmative by developing a novel theory of knowledge and by finding …

Nietzsche's Philosophy of Life Affirmation

"Guided by the idea of experimenting with art and science in order to transfigure humankind, this is an inciting fresh look at the theme of the affirmation of life in Nietzsche."-João Constâncio…

Atle Ottesen Søvik

A Basic Theory of Everything

The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philos…

Benjamin B. Bargetzi

The End of Emptiness

The right words at the right time will change your lifeIn an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world, this book offers 42 timeless phrases from philosophy that bring clarity, understanding, and gu…

S. Sayyid,

Islamism as Philosophy

Islamism as Philosophyexplores some of the philosophical assumptions that frame the way in which the rise of Muslim political identity throughout the planet presents challenges which are not only cultural…

Jason A Springs

Restorative Justice and Lived Religion

"This book examines how restorative justice practices and initiatives can challenge and transform the structurally racist features of the U.S. mass incarceration, and explores the ways that practitio…

Jaime Schultz

Regulating Bodies

Regulating Bodies offers the first global history of protective policies in elite sports and asks how far we are willing to go in the name of sporting excellence.

Tim Alberta

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

InstantNew York TimesBestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year"Brave and absorbing." -- New York Times"Alberta is not just a …

Liz Bucar

Stealing My Religion

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that…

Gotham Chopra, Joe Levin

Religion of Sports

From the sports documentarian and executive producer of "The Religion of Sports," a memoir-meets-manifesto about how sports provide meaning and purpose in people's lives all over the world.

Vasilis Kostakis

Beyond the Final Whistle

Can soccer become a force for liberation or is it just another 'opium of the masses'?

Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute

After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …