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  • Deadpool and Philosophy

    My Common Sense Is Tingling

    Edited by Nicolas Michaud, Jacob Thomas May ...
    Series Book 107 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Deadpool is the super-anti-hero who knows he's in a comic book. His unique situation and blood-stained history give rise to many philosophical puzzles. A group of philosophical Deadpool fans delve into these puzzles in Deadpool and Philosophy. For instance, if you know that someone is writing the script of your life, can you really be a hero?Is Deadpool really Wade Wilson, or did Wilson have his ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised

    A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

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  • Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

    Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between

    by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein ...
    Q. Why are there almost as many jokes about death as there are about sex?A. Because they both scare the pants off us.Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar.... Now they turn their attention to the Big "D" and share the timeless wisdom of the great philosophers, theologians, ... Read more

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  • Dead Girls

    Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

    by Alice Bolin ...
    "[A] deliciously dry, moody essay collection" about America's obsession with violence against women is "a lyrical meditation" (Carina Chocano, New York Times Book Review).In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Art And Craft Of Storytelling

    A Comprehensive Guide To Classic Writing Techniques

    by Nancy Lamb ...
    Master the Power of StoryWhen you consider the thousands of years of storytelling that comprise our literary tradition, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the shadow of so many works. But there are common threads that link all stories--from Beowulf and Hamlet to Gone With the Wind and The Godfather to the story you're drafting right now in your head. These threads form the foundation that supports ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

    Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

    by Laurie Lamson ...
    Series series Now Write! Series
    Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more.The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers hoping to craft an engaging alternate reality, flesh ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Superheroes and Philosophy

    Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way

    by Tom Morris, Matt Morris ...
    Series Book 13 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The comic book naratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an effective means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the definition of humanity.Superheroes and Philosophy tackles these and other philosophical questions in an intellectual yet ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Start Here, Volume 2: Read Your Way into 25 Amazing Authors

    by Jeff O'Neal, Rebecca Joines Schinsky ...
    There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Start Here Vol. 2 helps by showing you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Neil Gaiman and Philosophy

    Gods Gone Wild!

    Edited by Tracy L. Bealer, Rachel Luria, Wayne Yuen ...
    Series series Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Neil Gaiman is the imaginative wizard behind the best-selling novels American Gods (soon to be an HBO series) and The Anansi Boys, the graphic series The Sandman, and popular children’s books like Coraline and The Graveyard Book.Neil Gaiman and Philosophy looks at Gaiman’s work through a philosophical lens. How does fantasy interact with reality and what can each tell us about the other? Do we ... Read more

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  • Philip K. Dick and Philosophy

    Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits?

    Edited by D. E. Wittkower ...
    Series Book 63 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture—both movies directly based on his writings, such as Blade Runner (based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau plus cult favorites such as A Scanner Darkly, Imposter, Next, Screamers, and Paycheck and works revealing ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    “We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”—Dr. Robert Ford, WestworldHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO’s Westworld, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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