PROMETHEUS
(P/B) The Myth of Self-esteem
How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0079
What exactly is self-esteem? Most people, as well as many psychologists and educators, believe we need it, that it's good for our emotional well-being, and that it makes us more successful. World-renowned psychologist Albert Ellis says NO, it's all a myth. According to Ellis, self-esteem is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to humans. Self-esteem results in each of us praising ourselves when what we do is approved by others. But we also damn ourselves when we don't do well enough and others disapprove of us. What we need mo... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) NEBULA AWARDS SHOWCASE 2016
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0078
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Mercedes Lackey. This year's Nebula winners are Ursula Vernon, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nancy Kress, and Jeff VanderMeer, with Alaya Dawn Johnson winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Sci... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) WHEN GOD LAUGHS
AND OTHER SHORT STORIES
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0011 Jack London (1876-1916), the critically acclaimed and widely read author of The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), and The Sea Wolf (1904), produced this collection of twelve short stories toward the end of his career in 1911. Named after the first story - about a couple that tries in vain to uphold an intensely idealistic romance against the erosions of time and the inconstancy of human nature - the collection explores themes for which London became famous: the struggle for survival in the midst of hostile environments, human nat... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) INSIDE SYRIA
THE BACKSTORY OF THEIR CIVIL WAR AND WHAT THE WORLD CAN EXPECT
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0077
Based on first-hand reporting from Syria and Washington, journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with both rebel leaders and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erlich gives the reader a better understanding of this momentous power struggle and why it matters. Through his many contacts inside Syria, the author reveals who is supporting Assad and why; he describes the agendas of the rebel factions; and he depicts in stark terms the dire plight ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0051 To those who know Adam Smith principally by his classic treatise on economics, The Wealth of Nations, this earlier work may come as a revelation. Smith is often misrepresented in the public imagination as a cold, calculating rationalist espousing the pursuit of self-interest in the marketplace of laissez-faire capitalism, regardless of the human cost. This grossly inaccurate portrait may go back to Karl Marx, who seems not to have read Smith's work very carefully and thus criticized him as an unfeeling advocate of a system that exploited a... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0036
What is known? And how do we come to know it? These are the primary points of focus for metaphysics and epistemology, respectively. Here, in one of the classic works of early-modern empiricist philosophy, John Locke (1632-1704) attempts to answer these basic human questions by moving away from the rationalist notion of innate ideas to establish the concept of the tabula rasa in which the mind is initially impressed with ideas through perception of the external world of substance. The formation of basic ideas through the perception of prima... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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ETHICS
INCLUDING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNDERSTANDING
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0052 In the genre of Christian philosophers, Spinoza presents a geometric argument for the necessary existence of God as the one absolute substance underlying all other substance. From the necessity of God's existance, he derives the laws of existence, those of nature, and the ethical principles animating human conduct. In this sweeping volume that covers a wide range of topics from metaphysics, epistemology, and theology, Spinoza addresses the key concepts of freedom, the existence of evil, and the ultimate purpose of humanity (From the publis... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0027
Among the most influential parts of the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) were his ethics, his theory of the state, and his philosophy of history. The Philosophy of Right (1821), the last work published in Hegel's lifetime, is a combined system of moral and political philosophy, or a sociology dominated by the idea of the state. Here Hegel repudiates his earlier assessment of the French Revolution as "a marvelous sunrise" in the realization of liberty. Rejecting the republican form of government, he espouses an idealized form of a con... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) INTENTIONS
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0021 Originally published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur’s famous wit and wide learning. A leading spokesman for the English Aesthetic movement, Wilde promoted «art for art’s sake» against critics who argued that art must serve a moral purpose. On every page of this collection the gifted literary stylist admirably demonstrates not only that the characteristics of art are «distinction, charm, beauty, and imaginative power,» but also... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) WITTGENSTEIN'S LECTURES
CAMBRIDGE, 1932-1935 - FROM THE NOTES OF ALICE AMBROSE AND MARGARET MACDONALD
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0053 Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had an enormous influence on twentieth-century philosophy even though only one of his works, the famous Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, was published in his lifetime. Beyond this publication the impact of his thought was mainly conveyed to a small circle of students through his lectures at Cambridge University. Fortunately, many of his ideas have survived in both the dictations that were subsequently published, and the notes taken by his students, among them Alice Ambrose and the late Margaret Macdonald, fro... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITY
A CRITIQUE OF SOCIAL RADICALISM
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0075 A contemporary of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) achieved recognition as a social philosopher during the three decades following World War II. He is best known for helping to establish philosophical anthropology as a discipline, which arose under his and Max Scheler's tutelage during the Weimar Republic and continues to exert influence over German thought. In The Limits of Community, Plessner presents the appeal and the dangers of rejecting modern society for the sake of the ideal of community. The appeal... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0031
"Nothing is more curiously enquired after . . . than the causes of every phenomenon. . . . [We] push on our enquiries, till we arrive at the original and ultimate principle. . . . This is our aim in all our studies and reflections." These words sum up David Hume's plan: To discover the fundamental principles at work in the nature and extent of human knowledge, and in so doing to gain a clearer understanding of our perception, ideas (e.g. of cause and effect), impressions, beliefs, passions, virtues, and vices. Hume's piercing critique and ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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THREE ESSAYS ON RELIGION
NATURE, THE UTILITY OF RELIGION, AND THEISM
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0043
Published between 1850 and 1870, English social and political philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) offers his most sustained analysis of religious belief. Though not prepared to abandon the idea of an overall design in nature, Mill nonetheless argues that its violence and capriciousness mitigate against moral ends in nature's workings. Moreover, any designer of such a world as we experience cannot be all powerful and all good, for nature is "too clumsily made and capriciously governed." (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CAVEMAN LOGIC
THE PERSISTENCE OF PRIMITIVE THINKING IN A MODERN WORLD
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0074
We see the face of the Virgin Mary staring up at us from a grilled cheese sandwich and sell the uneaten portion of our meal for $37,000 on eBay. While science offers a wealth of rational explanations for natural phenomena, we often prefer to embrace the fantasies that reassured our distant ancestors. And we'll even go to war to protect our delusions against those who do not share them. These are examples of what evolutionary psychologist Hank Davis calls "Caveman Logic." Although some examples are funny, the condition itself is no laughin... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) LEAVES OF GRASS
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0020 In his quest for a truly native idiom, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) incarnated the American geography and its people in a new and transcendent poetic form. His monumental work, Leaves of Grass, celebrates sexuality, gender equality, and the astonishing beauty of the everyday. For Whitman, "The true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science and to common lives, endowing them with glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to real things, and to real things only." This com... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0019 In his last years Mark Twain had become a respected literary figure whose opinions were widely sought by the press. He had also suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses. The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's "dark" period, belies the popular image of the affiable American humorist. In this antireligious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an afterlife, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story asserts, "nothing exists; all is a ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0039 In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader of this volume senses that Mill is being pulled in opposing directions: steadfastly committed to majority rule with minority rights while at the same time being just enough of an aristocrat to believe that the masses need examplars to emulate. On Representative Government is one of the most compelling political essays of the 19th century. (From th... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) SEXUAL PRACTICES AND THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0073
Though sex and sex activities have been and remain a major force in human history, the subject, until recently, has been ignored by scholars. Since there is and was a demand for information about sex, the interested reader generally has had to either search out the information for himself or herself, or rely upon popular works that have often perpetuated erroneous beliefs. Misinformation about sex, however, is more likely for some periods than for others. Of all periods in Western history, the most neglected and most distorted has been the... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE BASIC BAKUNIN
WRITINGS, 1869-1871
Εκδότης: PROMETHEUS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3291-0072
The three years covered by this anthology represent the only time in Mikhail Bakunin's life when he was able to concentrate on his work and sustain a consistent output of speeches and writings. Only one of these texts has appeared before in an unabridged English translation. All dating from the period of Bakunin's propaganda on behalf of the First International, they thus belong to a period central to Bakunin's anarchism and mark the height of his influence during his lifetime. Robert M. Cutler's introduction traces the development of sele... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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