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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Anthony Grayling offers a definitive examination of the arguments for and against religion and religious belief, and an in-depth exploration of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely reflective person.
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 158 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christian author, activist, and scholar Tony Campolo and his son Bart, an avowed Humanist, debate their spiritual differences and explore similarities involving faith, belief, and hope that they share"--Amazon.com.
5) The humanist
Publisher
Published for the American Humanist Association and the American Ethical Union
Pub. Date
1941-
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An insightful look at alienation in the modern world from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom.
Social psychologist Erich Fromm observed the spread of alienation in the 1960s, arguing that humans who were once dynamic, creative beings were reduced to fixating on TV screens, emotionally paralyzed by anxieties over threats like nuclear war. Though we may stare at different...
Social psychologist Erich Fromm observed the spread of alienation in the 1960s, arguing that humans who were once dynamic, creative beings were reduced to fixating on TV screens, emotionally paralyzed by anxieties over threats like nuclear war. Though we may stare at different...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally. Dear Zealots is classic Amos Oz -- fluid, rich ... and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere. The essays were written, Oz states, "first and foremost"...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A globe-spanning investigation into the Transhumanist movement, considering the tech billionaires, scientific luminaries, and DIY body-hackers attempting to prolong, improve, and ultimately transcend the limits of human life"--
Author
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design. Structural Packaging gives the reader an understanding of the underlying principles of packaging construction and the technical knowledge and confidence to develop a greater number of their own unusual and innovative designs....
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