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  • Socrates Cafe

    A Fresh Taste of Philosophy

    "A bracing, rollicking read about the spark that ignites when people start asking meaningful questions." —O MagazineChristopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Child at Heart

    Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life

    Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, A Child at Heart takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks of old call arete-all-around excellence-when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Scouting and Scoring

    How We Know What We Know about Baseball

    An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Six Questions of Socrates

    A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy

    How people around the world grapple with the great questions posed by Socrates.What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's footsteps, Christopher Phillips—"Johnny Appleseed with ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Constitution Café

    Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution

    "A provocative extension of Jefferson’s original plan." —Kirkus ReviewsThomas Jefferson believed that every generation of Americans should rewrite our Constitution from scratch—to mirror the progress of the human mind and, most of all, to maintain the revolutionary spirit. He would be dismayed that it’s considered untouchable these days. Taking up Jefferson’s cause, Christopher Phillips leads a ... Read more

    Was $23.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The World of Niagara Wine

    The World of Niagara Wine is a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry that celebrates and critiques the local wine industry and situates it in a complex web of Old World traditions and New World reliance on technology, science, and taste as well as global processes and local sociocultural reactions.In the first section, contributors explore the history and regulation of wine ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Childing

    Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason through the Wisdom of Our Youngest

    Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, The Philosophy of Childing takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks arete-all-around excellence-when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Talk About a Dream

    The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Springsteen often prefers to let his music do the talking. His onstage stories and shaggy dog tales have long entertained his fans, but his songs and his guitar provide the most direct line to their hearts. Considering his prominence on the rock 'n' roll landscape, Springsteen has spent remarkably little of his 40-year recording career speaking to the press. But when he does decide to sit ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Essential Questions, The

    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    58 min

    In 2001, Phillips released the book Socrates' Café and started a movement that shares its title, spawning gatherings where, like the sages of old, modern-day thinkers - citizens like you and me - gather in dialogue to make sense of the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Now, he shares the insights he's gleaned from participating in such gatherings all across the continent, and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Math

    A Political History

    An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 1960s, the new math was a curricular answer to Cold War fears of American intellectual inadequacy. In the age of Sputnik and increasingly sophisticated ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Socrates Café

    A Fresh Taste of Philosophy

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 24 min

    Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. “Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master’s degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted-living complexes, prisons, libraries, day care centers, elementary and high schools, and churches, forming lasting ... Read more

    $23.90 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battleground

    10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East

    The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle EastThe Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated by the meddling of outsiders, as regional and global ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD