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  • Beethoven - His Spiritual Development

    by J. W. N. Sullivan ...
    First published in 1927, J. W. N. Sullivan's “Beethoven - His Spiritual Development” explores the subject of Beethoven's spirituality, which the author believes he expressed through his greatest musical compositions. Contents include: “Art and Reality”, “Music as Isolated”, “Music as Expression”, “Beethoven’s Characteristics”, “The Morality of Power”, “The Mind of Beethoven”, “The Hero”, “The End ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beethoven

    by J.W.N. Sullivan ...
    From the Author's Preface:"I believe that in his greatest music Beethoven was primarily concerned to express his personal vision of life. This vision was, of course, the product of his character and his experience. Beethoven the man and Beethoven the composer are not two unconnected entities, and the known history of the man may be used to throw light upon the character of his music."Clifton ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Aspects Of Science

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by J. W. N. Sullivan ...
    "Aspects of Science" by J. W. N. Sullivan is a collection of papers that examine scientific ideas through a humanistic lens, asserting that science is deeply intertwined with our intellectual and emotional lives. Sullivan argues that science transcends being a mere technical discipline, serving fundamental human curiosities and needs. He outlines the evolution of science from simple observations ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Atoms And Electrons

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by J. W. N. Sullivan ...
    Atoms and Electrons invites readers into modern scientific thinking with a lucid, engaging guide to the hidden order of matter. It begins with the practical language of physics—dimensions, metric units, prefixes, powers of ten, and the special systems used to measure electricity—while showing how measurement itself can lead to deeper truths, from Maxwell's work to the velocity of light. From there ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Gallio

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by J. W. N. Sullivan ...
    Gallio, or The Tyranny of Science is a searching critique of the modern faith in scientific authority and its effects on art, thought, and human self-understanding. Once mocked, science has become a power that reshaped Victorian certainty through Darwinism, then deepened modern unease with war, Einstein, and the collapse of old certainties. The author argues that artists have been both drawn to ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Science And The Modern World

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Alfred North Whitehead ...
    Science and the Modern World is Alfred North Whitehead's sweeping meditation on how modern science transformed Western civilization's deepest assumptions. Based on his Lowell Lectures of 1925, it ranges from the rise of early modern science and mathematics to relativity, quantum theory, religion, and social progress, treating science not merely as discovery but as a new cosmology that reshaped ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Quantum Physics and Ultimate Reality: Mystical Writings of Great Physicists

    by Michael Green ...
    This book is a collection of the finest mystical writings of the great physicists of the 20th Century. They are Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, Eugene Wigner, David Bohm, and Freeman Dyson. The essays are written in nontechnical language and will be of absorbing interest to a wide range of readers.The ... Read more

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  • An Outline of Philosophy

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In his controversial book An Outline of Philosophy, first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his argument separates modern scientific knowledge and our ‘seeming’ consciousness. These innovative ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • What is Life?

    With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

    by Erwin Schrödinger ...
    Series series Canto
    Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Henri Bergson Megapack

    5 Classic Non-Fiction Works in English Translation

    by Henri Bergson ...
    Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Art of Philosophizing

    And Other Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Three essays on mathematics, logic, and philosophy from the Noble Prize–winning author of A History of Western Philosophy.The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of Communist aggression and more with "the art ... Read more

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  • The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method

    by Henri Poincare ...
    "The Foundations of Science" by Henri Poincaré is a profound exploration of the philosophy and methodology of science. In this work, Poincaré delves into the nature of scientific inquiry, emphasizing the importance of hypotheses in the scientific process. He argues that science is not merely a collection of facts but a dynamic system of ideas that evolve through rigorous testing and validation. ... Read more

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