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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jacob bender”
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  • Those Who Act Ruin It

    A Daoist Account of Moral Attunement

    by Jacob Bender ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.Drawing on both western and Chinese philosophy*, Those Who Act Ruin It* shows how Daoism presents a viable alternative to established moral theories. The Daoist, critical of the Confucian and Mohist discourses of their time, provides an account of morality that can best be understood as ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Her Eyes Were In The Stars

    by Jacob Bender ...
    Have you ever taken entirely far longer than you would've strictly preferred to get over a lover? Well, Jon Wilson takes centuries, as a malfunctioning hyperdrive hurtles him across space and time!The memory of Tasha, his ex, will both help and haunt him through multiple invasions, holy wars, and so many apocalypses that he gets kinda used to it; his heart-ache will be his one constant while he is ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature

    by Jacob L. Bender ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This comparative literature study explores how writers from across Ireland and Latin America have, both in parallel and in concert, deployed symbolic representations of the dead in their various anti-colonial projects. In contrast to the ghosts and revenants that haunt English and Anglo-American letters—where they are largely either monstrous horrors or illusory frauds—the dead in these Irish ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD

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  • Nothing

    Three Inquiries in Buddhism

    by Marcus Boon, Timothy Morton, Eric Cazdyn ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tuf Voyaging

    by George R.R. Martin ...
    A classic novel from George R.R. Martin, author of the hit HBO TV series A GAME OF THRONESHaviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few), and he likes cats. So how is it that, despite being up against the worst villains in the universe, he has become the proud owner of the last working seedship, pride of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps?We'll leave that aside for now - just be ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Buddhist Ethics

    A Philosophical Exploration

    by Jay L. Garfield ...
    Series series Buddhist Philosophy for Philosophers
    Buddhist Ethics presents an outline of Buddhist ethical thought. It is not a defense of Buddhist approaches to ethics as opposed to any other, nor is it a critique of the Western tradition. Garfield presents a broad overview of a range of Buddhist approaches to the question of moral philosophy. He draws on a variety of thinkers, reflecting the great diversity of this 2500-year-old tradition in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Avatar

    by Poul Anderson ...
    A monumental epic tale of space exploration and alien contact from the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.In the future, humankind has taken only limited advantage of a miraculous gift left for it in the far-distant past. A beneficent and inscrutable alien race called the Others has provided "gates" that enable passage to all corners of the galaxy. But after the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Effortless Action

    Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China

    by Edward Slingerland ...
    This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness. This concept of effortlessness, ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Man-Kzin Wars IX

    by Larry Niven, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Paul Chafe ...
    Series Book 9 - Man-Kzin Wars Series
    THOSE KZIN DON'T KNOW WHENTHEY'RE LICKED(AND MAYBE THEY AREN'T . . . .)It was so unfair! Here the Kzin were, warcats supreme, bringing the galaxy piece by piece under feline dominion, carving out satrapies for the home planet like the lords of creation that they were—and then they ran into those pesky humans. Mere apes! Contemptible salad-eaters! Taking pride in sneaking up on a leaf! Obviously ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies

    by Steve Coutinho ...
    Steve Coutinho explores in detail the fundamental concepts of Daoist thought as represented in three early texts: the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, and the Liezi. Readers interested in philosophy yet unfamiliar with Daoism will gain a comprehensive understanding of these works from this analysis, and readers fascinated by ancient China who also wish to grasp its philosophical foundations will appreciate ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Harvest the Fire

    by Poul Anderson ...
    Series Book 3 - Harvest of Stars
    In the far future, a conspiracy emerges against a powerful AI in a novel from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.Many centuries in the future, no great destiny for humankind exists on Earth. The Lunarians, genetically engineered human adaptations bred to survive on the moon, have spread out toward the stars. But not even their colony on distant Proserpina is free ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things

    A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being

    by Yang Guorong ...
    Translated by Chad Austin Meyers ...
    Series series World Philosophies
    Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things, Yang grapples with the philosophical problem of how the complexly interwoven nature of things and being relates to human nature, ... Read more

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