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2) Know How
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Oxford Univ Pr
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Jason Stanley presents a powerful new account of how we acquire knowledge. He argues for the surprising thesis that practical knowledge is a kind of theoretical knowledge: that knowing how to do something amounts to knowing a truth about the world. It is our success as inquirers that explains our capacity for skilful engagement with the world.
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Hachette Book Group USA
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought. A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of...
4) Witness
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Publisher
Blackstone Pub
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The world remembers Elie Wiesel-Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than forty books, including Oprah's Book Club selection Night-as a great humanist. He passed away in July 2016.Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age fifteen. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades, as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith, while navigating...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Ed
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
En este libro Wayne W. Dyer, autor de Tus zonas erróneas, ha preparado una práctica guía en la que confronta los textos originales del Libro del Tao de Lao Zi con su interpretación en el lenguaje claro, directo y actual que caracteriza sus obras.El Dao de Jing o Libro del Tao, que compila los versos del filósofo chino Lao Zi, es una de las obras cumbre de la sabiduría oriental. Wayne W. Dyer se propone aquí hacer más accesible las enseñanzas...
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Publisher
Lightning Source Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what early moderns termed poesie—in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing how problems of epistemology are inextricable from questions of literary form, Sarkar offers a defense of poiesis, or literary making, as a vital...
7) Greenlights
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English
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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
8) Ser Madre
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Publisher
Audiolibros Coleccion
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Ser Madre es quizás el acontecimiento más importante que te tiene preparada la vida. Ya seas madre primeriza, o disfrutes una vez más del milagro del nacimiento, este audiolibro, a través de historias para compartir, poemas de grandes autores, palabras de reflexión y bellos momentos de sensibilidad, te invitará a emocionarte y a darle un nuevo significado a la maternidad. Ideal para regalar, este audiolibro, a partir de hermosas narraciones,...
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English
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The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration transforming suffering and finding true joy.Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from it or cover it up by consuming. We find something to eat or turn on the television. But unless we’re able to face our suffering, we can’t be present...
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English
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"Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers" Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Knowledge and Practical Interests, Language in Context, and Know How.
How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Pub
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
“Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?”The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide—it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a #1 bestseller for forty-one weeks and received multiple Best Book of the Year awards—Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates...
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English
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
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