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  • Socrates Cafe

    A Fresh Taste of Philosophy

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    "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

    $15.19 CAD

  • Constitution Café

    Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    "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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Six Questions of Socrates

    A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    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

    $17.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Child at Heart

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

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    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

  • The Philosophy of Childing

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

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    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

  • Battleground

    10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    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

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Essential Questions, The

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    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

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rivers Ran Backward

    The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham Lincoln's home region, had far more ambiguous identities-and contested political loyalties-than we ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • The World of Niagara Wine

    Edited by Michael Ripmeester, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Christopher Fullerton ...
    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

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Battle for Syria

    International Rivalry in the New Middle East

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."—Patrick Cockburn, IndependentSyria's brutal, long-lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civilian Specialists at War

    Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    Series series New Historical Perspectives
    The war of 1914–18 was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. In Civilian Specialists at War, Christopher Phillips examines the manner in which Britain’s industrial society influenced the character and conduct of industrial warfare. This book analyses the multiple connections ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • Talk About a Dream

    The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen

    Edited by Christopher Phillips, Louis P. Masur ...
    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

    $14.79 CAD