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For Small Creatures Such as We

Author : Sasha Sagan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073521879X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book For Small Creatures Such as We written by Sasha Sagan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A charming book, ringing with the joy of existence." --Richard Dawkins The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, For Small Creatures Such as We is part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, a luminous celebration of Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed. Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. When Sagan herself became a mother, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions--from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and more--growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience without relying on a religious framework. As Sagan shares these rituals, For Small Creatures Such as We becomes a moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughter, a marriage, and the natural world--a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.

Such Creatures

Author : Judith Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887549229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Such Creatures written by Judith Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author who wrote and a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award.

Unusual Creatures

Author : Michael Hearst
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452104670
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Unusual Creatures written by Michael Hearst and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life forms"-- P. [4] of cover.

Sacred Monsters

Author : Nosson Slifkin
Publisher : Zoo Torah
ISBN 13 : 1933143185
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Monsters written by Nosson Slifkin and published by Zoo Torah. This book was released on 2007 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons, unicorns, mermaids ... all the famous creatures of myth and legend are to be found in the Torah, Talmud and Midrash. But what are we to make of them? Do they really exist? Did the Torah scholars of old believe in their existence? And if not, why did they describe these creatures? Sacred Monsters is a thoroughly revised and vastly expanded edition of the bestselling book Mysterious Creatures. Rabbi Natan Slifkin, the famous "Zoo Rabbi," revisits all the creatures of that work as well as a host of new ones, including werewolves, giants, dwarfs, two-headed mutants, and the enigmatic shamir-worm. Sacred Monsters explores these cases in detail and discusses a range of different approaches for understanding them. Aside from the fascinating insights into these cryptic creatures, Sacred Monsters also presents a framework within which to approach any conflict between classical Jewish texts and the modern scientific worldview. Complete with extraordinary photographs and fascinating ancient illustrations, Sacred Monsters is a scholarly yet stimulating work that will be a treasured addition to your bookshelf

Social Creatures

Author : Clifton P. Flynn
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1590561236
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Social Creatures written by Clifton P. Flynn and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than thirty essays, Social Animals examines the role of animals in human society. Collected from a wide range of periodicals and books, these important works of scholarship examine such issues as how animal shelter workers view the pets in their care, why some people hoard animals, animals and women who experience domestic abuse, philosophical and feminist analyses of our moral obligations toward animals, and many other topics.

1,001 Creatures

Author : Laura Merz
Publisher : Yonder
ISBN 13 : 9781632062680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book 1,001 Creatures written by Laura Merz and published by Yonder. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Etana Editions, Helsinki, 2016.

Beautiful Creatures

Author : Kami Garcia
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316231681
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Creatures written by Kami Garcia and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation

Author : Gaven Kerr OP
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190941316
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation written by Gaven Kerr OP and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation; Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his works in order to present a unified Thomistic metaphysics of creation. Kerr argues that Aquinas's metaphysics of creation, wherein God is conceived as the absolute source of all that exists, is the backbone of his philosophical theology. Throughout his writings, the framework of the absolute dependence of creatures on God and of the independence of God as existence itself is ever present. Without understanding this aspect of Aquinas's philosophical thought, Kerr suggests, it is impossible to understand his philosophy of God. When it comes to metaphysics, Thomas is committed to thinking through the issues involved therein on the basis of natural reason. Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation demonstrates Aquinas's belief that we must arrive at an affirmation of the existence of God on the basis of a wider metaphysical view as to the constitution of reality, a view that does not presuppose divine truths but can indeed establish them.

Lex Draconis

Author : Ray Machuga
Publisher : Higher Grounds Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lex Draconis written by Ray Machuga and published by Higher Grounds Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where fantasy is reality, you ARE the dragon.

Fellow Creatures

Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191068373
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fellow Creatures written by Christine M. Korsgaard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.

Can God Be Free?

Author : William L. Rowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198250452
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Can God Be Free? written by William L. Rowe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the three major religions of the West, God is understood to be a being whose goodness, knowledge, and power is such that it is impossible for any being, including God himself, to have a greater degree of goodness, knowledge, and power. This book focuses on God's freedom and praiseworthiness in relation to his perfect goodness. Given his necessary perfections, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. For, as Leibniz tells us, 'todo less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness.' But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely. And, if that is so, it may be argued that we have no reason to be thankful to God for creating us, since, as parts ofthe best possible world, God was simply unable to do anything other than create us - he created us of necessity, not freely. Moreover, we are confronted with the difficulty of having to believe that this world, with its Holocaust, and innumerable other evils, is the best that an infinitely powerful, infinitely good being could do in creating a world. Neither of these conclusions, taken by itself, seems at all plausible. Yet each conclusion appears to follow from the conception of God nowdominant in the great religions of the West.William Rowe presents a detailed study of this important problem, both historically in the writings of Gottfried Leibniz, Samuel Clarke, Thomas Aquinas, and Jonathan Edwards, as well as in the contemporary philosophical literature devoted to the issue. Rowe argues that this problem is more serious than is commonly thought and may require some significant revision in contemporary thinking about the nature of God.

Aristotle on Desire

Author : Giles Pearson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139561014
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Desire written by Giles Pearson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychology. Topics include: the range of states that Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis); objects of desire (orekta) and the relation between desires and envisaging prospects; desire and the good; Aristotle's three species of desire: epithumia (pleasure-based desire), thumos (retaliatory desire) and boulêsis (good-based desire - in a narrower notion of 'good' than that which connects desire more generally to the good); Aristotle's division of desires into rational and non-rational; Aristotle and some current views on desire; and the role of desire in Aristotle's moral psychology. The book will be of relevance to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.

The Rescuer of Tiny Creatures

Author : Curtis Manley
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250843650
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Rescuer of Tiny Creatures written by Curtis Manley and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covered in earthworm slime and assisted only by her cat and her little brother, Roberta rescues tiny creatures. You know, the ones stranded in the middle of the sidewalk. Upside-down, flopping, or near-frozen. A lot of the time, that earns her funny looks from kids in school. But when a swarm of baby spiders finds its way into the classroom, Roberta will save the day with her knowledge and creativity, showing everybody that tiny creatures aren’t so scary after all. They just need friends who rescue and understand them! Established Roaring Brook Press author Curtis Manley has teamed up with up-and-coming illustrator Lucy Ruth Cummins, creator of Truman and Stumpkin, to present this quirky and adorable picture book.

Laws of the Colonial and State Governments, Relating to Indians and Indian Affairs, from 1633 to 1831, Inclusive

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws of the Colonial and State Governments, Relating to Indians and Indian Affairs, from 1633 to 1831, Inclusive written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophical Logic

Author : Sybil Wolfram
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415023184
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Logic written by Sybil Wolfram and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Daniel Dennett

Author : Andrew Brook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008648
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Dennett written by Andrew Brook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus will offer a series of introductory volumes of newly commissioned essays to many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age.Author of books such as Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett has reached a huge general and professional audience that extends beyond philosophy to the study of consciousness , the development of the child's mind, cognitive ethnology, explanation in the social sciences, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary theory. This volume is the only truly introductory collection that explores the implications of Dennett's work.

Report of the Commissioners to Revise, Codify and Amend the Statute Laws of New-Hampshire, Appointed Under the Resolution of June 30, 1865: with Notes and Citations

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Author : New Hampshire. Commissioners to Revise, Codify and Amend the Statute Laws
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Commissioners to Revise, Codify and Amend the Statute Laws of New-Hampshire, Appointed Under the Resolution of June 30, 1865: with Notes and Citations written by New Hampshire. Commissioners to Revise, Codify and Amend the Statute Laws and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: