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A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

with A Theory of Meaning

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Series Book 12 - Posthumanities
“Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within ... Read more

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“Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within
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Meditations

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One of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121–180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. Ascending to the imperial throne in A.D. 161, Aurelius found his reign beset by natural disasters and war. In the wake of these challenges, he set down a series of private ... Read more

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One of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121–180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. Ascending to the imperial throne in A.D. 161, Aurelius found his reign beset by natural disasters and war. In the wake of these challenges, he set down a series of private
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Collected Writings on Education (Annotated)

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Collected Writings on Education gathers John Dewey's major reflections on schooling, democracy, experience, and social reform, presenting education not as rote transmission but as an active reconstruction of life. Written in Dewey's lucid, argumentative, and pragmatist style, these essays and lectures belong to the progressive education movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ... Read more

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The Albert Einstein Collection Volume One

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Three captivating volumes reveal how Einstein viewed both the physical universe and the everyday world in which he lived.A century after his theory of general relativity shook the foundations of the scientific world, Albert Einstein's name is still synonymous with genius. This collection is an introduction to one of the world's greatest minds.Essays in HumanismNuclear proliferation, Zionism, and ... Read more

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Marx's Concept of Man

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Choiceless Awareness

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The passages in this Study Book have been taken directly from KThe passages in this Study Book have been taken directly from Krishnamurti's talks and books from 1933 through 1967. The compilers began by reading all the passages from this period which contained the phrase choiceness awareness the theme of this book. This would not have been possible without the use of a searchable full-text ... Read more

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