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Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books

A Cross-Cultural Anthology of Virtue, Duty, Self-Mastery, Social Justice, and Moral Philosophy

by Booker T. Washington, Richard Baxter, James Harold Romain, Cora May Williams, John Hamilton Moore, Aristotle, John H. Stapleton, Franz Brentano, Margaret Slattery, G. E. Moore, T. De Witt Talmage, Bernard Mandeville, William De Witt Hyde, Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby, J. M. Judy, Thomas Fowler, M. Valentine, John Dewey, W. R. Sorley, Kenneth Ingram, S. A. D. Tissot, Robert Chenault Givler, James Hayden Tufts, Goldwin Smith, Mabel Anne McKee, Malcolm Guthrie, Maurice Francis Egan, Alfred Russel Wallace, S. M. I. Henry, Rudolf Eucken, Horatio Robinson Storer, Edward Abbott Sir Parry, Epictetus, Emil Edward Kusel, Stephen S. Wise, H. G. Wells, John Bunyan, George Horace Lorimer, Oliver Optic, Horatio Jr. Alger, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Plutarch, Arthur Christopher Benson, Benedictus de Spinoza, Felix Adler, Iamblichus, W. R. Washington Sullivan, Laurence Housman, Upton Sinclair ...

Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books assembles a capacious library of moral inquiry, bringing philosophical argument, religious meditation, social criticism, self-culture, political reflection, and popular instruction into sustained conversation. Its range extends from classical accounts of virtue and discipline to modern discussions of conscience, education, reform, labor, peace, and public ... Read more

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Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books assembles a capacious library of moral inquiry, bringing philosophical argument, religious meditation, social criticism, self-culture, political reflection, and popular instruction into sustained conversation. Its range extends from classical accounts of virtue and discipline to modern discussions of conscience, education, reform, labor, peace, and public
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A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology

Classic Investigations of Poverty, Crime, Slums, Vagrancy, Vice, and Social Reform

by Harry Best, Jacob A. Riis, W. T. Stead, Eugene S. Talbot, Lillian William Betts, John E. Gunckel, Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke, Guy Thorne, Bernard Mandeville, Samuel Merwin, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, James Harold Romain, Clifton R. Wooldridge, William Booth, L. O. Curon, Mary Higgs, George M. White, Sigmund Engel, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, John Josiah Munro, Caroline H. Woods, Nels Anderson, Charles Kingston, Josiah Flynt, Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg, V. M. Masten, Hans Kurella, R. M. Algie, A-No. 1, Louis Albert Banks, Samuel Paynter Wilson, W. A. Chapple, Roland Burnham Molineux, Carlo de Fornaro, John Thomas Smith, Roy K. Anderson, Jacobus X, Wellington Scott ...

A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology gathers a far-reaching body of writing on poverty, homelessness, crime, vice, institutional life, urban reform, and the social consequences of industrial modernity. Its materials span investigative reportage, sociological observation, reformist argument, case study, memoir, moral commentary, and popular exposé. The collection's breadth is ... Read more

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A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology gathers a far-reaching body of writing on poverty, homelessness, crime, vice, institutional life, urban reform, and the social consequences of industrial modernity. Its materials span investigative reportage, sociological observation, reformist argument, case study, memoir, moral commentary, and popular exposé. The collection's breadth is
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Mysteries of the Hopewell

Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands

by William F. Romain ...

Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated debris of two thousand years, are the clues to an ancient mystery. A Native American people, now known as the Hopewell, lived and worked these lands, building earthworks which in some instances dwarf the ruins at Stonehenge. More significantly, these mammoth earthworks were built in different geometric ... Read more

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Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated debris of two thousand years, are the clues to an ancient mystery. A Native American people, now known as the Hopewell, lived and worked these lands, building earthworks which in some instances dwarf the ruins at Stonehenge. More significantly, these mammoth earthworks were built in different geometric
... Read more
Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent

by Brad H. Koldehoff, Timothy R. Pauketat, Susan M. Alt, Melissa R. Baltus, Kenneth B. Farnsworth, Eve A. Hargrave, Kristin M. Hedman, Go Matsumoto, Kathryn E. Parker0, Jonathan Remo1, John D. Richards2, William F. Romain3, Kayeleigh Sharp4, Mark J. Wagner5, Thomas J. Zych6, Mary Simon7 ...

Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North AmericaAcross North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide archaeologists with unparalleled opportunities to explore new questions about the lives of ancient native ... Read more

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Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North AmericaAcross North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide archaeologists with unparalleled opportunities to explore new questions about the lives of ancient native
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Shamans of the Lost World

A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell

by William F. Romain ...

Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
Shamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In this detailed look at the prehistoric shamanism of the Ohio Hopewell, Romain uses cognitive science, archaeology, and ethnology to propose that the shamanic world view results from psychological mechanisms that have a basis in our cognitive evolutionary ... Read more

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Shamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In this detailed look at the prehistoric shamanism of the Ohio Hopewell, Romain uses cognitive science, archaeology, and ethnology to propose that the shamanic world view results from psychological mechanisms that have a basis in our cognitive evolutionary
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33 Human Science Masterpieces You Must Read Before You Die. Illustrated

The Art of Public Speaking, The Meditations, The Kama Sutra and other masterpieces

by Edwin A. Abbott, Aristotle, Dale Carnegie, Gilbert Chesterton, René Descartes, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Sigmund Freud, Hermann Hesse, David Hume, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Swami Abhedananda, Anonimous, David Herbert Lawrence, Niccolò Machiavelli, Benedictus de Spinoza, John Mill, Prentice Mulford, Thomas More, Friedrich Nietzsche, J. Allanson Picton, Plato, Sun Tzu, Vatsyayana, Voltaire, H. G. Wells, Frances Bacon ...

We live in an era rife with cultural conflict. The 21st century is by no means free of wars, terrorism, riots, famine, nor epidemics. We may attempt to solve the challenges of our times by uniting the humanistic disciplines of philosophy, science, and technology. Our modern reality requires a fundamental understanding of the problems beleaguering our existence. Science and literature are key tools ... Read more

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We live in an era rife with cultural conflict. The 21st century is by no means free of wars, terrorism, riots, famine, nor epidemics. We may attempt to solve the challenges of our times by uniting the humanistic disciplines of philosophy, science, and technology. Our modern reality requires a fundamental understanding of the problems beleaguering our existence. Science and literature are key tools
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Attack Surface

by Cory Doctorow ...

Series Book 3 - Little Brother
Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland.Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side.In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were ... Read more

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Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland.Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side.In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were
... Read more
Self-Reliance

And Selected Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.Self Reliance essay ... Read more

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.Self Reliance essay
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The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Romantic Poems, Plays, Criticism & Letters

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Silas Penwicke ...

The Complete Works gathers the extraordinary range of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's achievement: visionary poems such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan," dramatic experiments, critical essays, lectures, autobiographical reflections, and letters. Read together, these writings reveal a mind moving between Gothic intensity, philosophical speculation, theological inquiry, and ... Read more

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The Complete Works gathers the extraordinary range of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's achievement: visionary poems such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan," dramatic experiments, critical essays, lectures, autobiographical reflections, and letters. Read together, these writings reveal a mind moving between Gothic intensity, philosophical speculation, theological inquiry, and
... Read more
Remarkable Creatures

Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

by Sean B. Carroll ...

National Book Award Finalist: A biologist's "thoroughly enjoyable" account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet ( Publishers Weekly).Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists ... Read more

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National Book Award Finalist: A biologist's "thoroughly enjoyable" account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet ( Publishers Weekly).Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists
... Read more
The Improvement of the Mind

by Isaac Watts ...

"Perhaps the readers may find something here which may wake a latent genius and direct the studies of a willing mind."How accurate Isaac Watts was in that statement! For this book inspired the father of electromagnetism, Michael Faraday, and guided his way of thinking through all his scientific accomplishments. Given his great achievements from a limited starting point, isn't it worth discovering ... Read more

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"Perhaps the readers may find something here which may wake a latent genius and direct the studies of a willing mind."How accurate Isaac Watts was in that statement! For this book inspired the father of electromagnetism, Michael Faraday, and guided his way of thinking through all his scientific accomplishments. Given his great achievements from a limited starting point, isn't it worth discovering
... Read more
The First Americans

In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

by James Adovasio, Jake Page ...

J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has ... Read more

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J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has
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