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1) Philosophie pour débutants Comment comprendre les bases de la philosophie et les appliquer avec s
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La philosophie est un terme fascinant, beau, romantique et harmonieux, mais aussi une activité intellectuelle intense. En réalité, la philosophie n'est ni très romantique ni très fatigante.Il est vrai qu'il faut utiliser son cerveau et que certaines choses dépassent le bon sens, mais au fond, la philosophie consiste simplement à s'intéresser à l'homme et au monde. L'image que l'on a des philosophes grecs de l'Antiquité flânant sous le soleil...
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Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change. The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more humane civil society. The book consolidates recent thinking...
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Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions-appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence-that have dominated and shaped the history of Western philosophy since the time of Plato. It is a position that has propelled him into a series...
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Discover the inspiring life and groundbreaking achievements of one of history's most remarkable scientists with Grace T. Hallock's Marie Curie and the Story of Radium. This captivating short biography brings to life the story of Marie Curie, a pioneering physicist and chemist whose discovery of radium revolutionized the scientific world and changed the course of medical research.
Grace T. Hallock chronicles Marie Curie's journey from her humble beginnings...
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Charlotte Mason didn't give a to-do list for educating children, she gave principles to guide the way.
These principles show us the big picture of the Charlotte Mason method: what a child is, how the mind works, what tools we can use, and where we are trying to go. Reading the principles as a long list, however, can be overwhelming and confusing. Educating Persons takes each principle, one by one, and points you to both their meanings as well...
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The sport lover's ultimate road trip
When Jim Gorant, a Sports Illustrated staffer and lifelong sports fan, discovered that he had never attended a single one of sports' most iconic events, he wondered, What kind of sports fan am I, anyway? And if he had to pick the top ten, what would those events be? The result was a growing obsession, first with determining the events that should make the list and then with actually attending all of them. A personal...
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"Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn't happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions."
-Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed
Can our brains recognize where "reality" ends and "virtual" begins? Where will technology lead us in five, fifty, or five hundred years? An unrivaled...
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Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Peg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham formulates a more...
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A Handbook for Zoning Hearing Board Members is geared for the everyday citizen who is, or will be, serving on their town's or city's Zoning Hearing Board. This book not only covers the basics of serving on such a board--for example, how to navigate and understand a zoning ordinance; how to decide on requests for variances, special exceptions, validity challenges, and so on; what to expect when conducting a hearing--but is specifically written to teach...
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Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son:
"Why do we play ball?"
From Mexican jungles to the small-town gridirons of Ohio, frommedieval villages and royal courts to modern soccer pitches andbaseball parks, The Ball explores the little-known origins ofour favorite sports across the centuries, and...
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Bullfrog Films
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[2020]
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"Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl, Everything's Cool), uses her signature serious-yet-quirky...