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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2022

        Ice humanities

        Living, thinking and working in a melting world

        by Klaus Dodds, Sverker Sörlin

        Ice humanities is a pioneering collection of essays that tackles the existential crisis posed by the planet's diminishing ice reserves. By the end of this century, we will likely be facing a world where sea ice no longer reliably forms in large areas of the Arctic Ocean, where glaciers have not just retreated but disappeared, where ice sheets collapse, and where permafrost is far from permanent. The ramifications of such change are not simply geophysical and biochemical. They are societal and cultural, and they are about value and loss. Where does this change leave our inherited ideas, knowledge and experiences of ice, snow, frost and frozen ground? How will human, animal and plant communities superbly adapted to cold and high places cope with less ice, or even none at all? The ecological services provided by ice are breath-taking, providing mobility, water and food security for hundreds of millions of people around the world, often Indigenous and vulnerable communities. The stakes could not be higher. Drawing on sources ranging from oral testimony to technical scientific expertise, this path-breaking collection sets out a highly compelling claim for the emerging field of ice humanities, convincingly demonstrating that the centrality of ice in human and non-human life is now impossible to ignore.

      • Ethics & moral philosophy

        The Case Against Miracles

        by John W. Loftus

        Renowned atheist edits anthology on miracles.

      • Fantasy
        April 2012

        Evermore

        An Introduction

        by Brewin

        Evermore: An Introduction is the story of Brewin, a 20-something year-old, who blurs reality and fiction as he contemplates life's big question: What's it all about? Always the joker, Brewin not only lets his reader into his mind, but somehow embeds himself in his reader's mind. He weaves the bizarre and mind-expanding worlds of Evermore together with his life, relaying conversations with friends as they actually happened, his musings on life and snippets of other stories he is writing. Beware! This book may prove hazardous to your concept of reality! TRULY A BOOK LIKE NO OTHER, EVERMORE IS A TALE THAT WILL STAY WITH YOU FOREVER MORE...

      • Fantasy
        March 2012

        Evermore

        An Introduction

        by Brewin

        Evermore: An Introduction is the story of Brewin, a 20-something year-old, who blurs reality and fiction as he contemplates life's big question: What's it all about? Always the joker, Brewin not only lets his reader into his mind, but somehow embeds himself in his reader's mind. He weaves the bizarre and mind-expanding worlds of Evermore together with his life, relaying conversations with friends as they actually happened, his musings on life and snippets of other stories he is writing. Beware! This book may prove hazardous to your concept of reality! TRULY A BOOK LIKE NO OTHER, EVERMORE IS A TALE THAT WILL STAY WITH YOU FOREVER MORE...

      • Philosophy of mind
        October 2006

        Consciousness and Its Place in Nature

        Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?

        by Freeman, Anthony, B01; Strawson, Galen, A01

        For the last five years philosopher Galen Strawson has provoked a mixture of shock and scepticism with his carefully argued case that physicalism entails panpsychism.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2006

        Fundamentals of Philosophy

        by Antonio Meneghetti

        A small, 206-page book meant to serve as a "thesaurus” of elementary logic. It is a concise handbook on the elementary principles of the rational technique in performing applied philosophy. Nowhere in the international bibliography is there to be found such a precise presentation of the elementary principles through which our rationality established its philosophical-scientific-social architectures. It can be viewed as a valuable guide to addressing or regulating one's own critical system or that of others. Outlined in its pages are the principles used or referred to by the best philosophers of every age in formulating and expositing their personal wisdom.

      • History of Western philosophy
        July 2020

        La visión del hombre en el pensamiento de Aristóteles

        by Ramírez Daza y García, Rómulo; Del Toro Comte, Cristina

        Aristóteles ha legado a la posteridad y a la cultura universal una gran herencia intelectual, dando solución de continuidad a su pasado y proyectándose luminosamente a su futuro que es justo nuestro presente. Sus ideas han sido acápite de muchas ciencias y sus enseñanzas han trascendido todas las fronteras desde Macedonia al resto del mundo, influenciando a intelectuales de toda cepa en distintos tiempos e intensidades diversas: filósofos, científicos, humanistas, teólogos y artistas; todo lo cual lo coloca como un “clásico” en el sentido fuerte del término. Releerlo es acercarse y descubrir sus magnas aportaciones que hoy en día damos por sentadas sin saber muchas veces que fueron suyas, y que se presentaron como novedosas y originales para su tiempo. Su visión del hombre se presenta unificada en este breve y conciso estudio, que permitirá adentrar al lector en una de las líneas más importantes del pensamiento del autor y en los fundamentos históricos y presentes de nuestra mentalidad occidental.

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