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  Socrates Meets Kierkegaard - The...

  Peter Kreeft

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  In the Socrates Meets series, Peter Kreeft revives the classic method of bringing philosophy to life through dialogue. In eight innovative volumes, he uncovers the principles, assumptions, and sometimes dangerous conclusions of some of history’s most influential minds.  Each dialogue imagines a purgatory where we can listen in on conversations between Socrates and the great thinkers who, centuries later, picked up the philosopher’s torch. Each conversation investigates one of the philosopher’s key works, a short, readable classic that raises central questions both for philosophy and for life. In this volume, Socrates cross-examines Søren Kierkegaard, the father of Christian existentialism and author of Philosophical Fragments, exploring imagination, truth, faith, love, and Jesus Christ.

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  Meet Maslow - How Understanding...

  Landon T. Smith

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  Everyone has needs! But how many of us actually know what those needs are? Sure, we can point out the basic ones, eating, breathing and sleeping, but what other types of needs are there? Well, with the help of our good friend Abraham Maslow, we’re going to be talking all about needs! Meet Maslow is all about learning what he referred to as the Hierarchy of Needs, a pyramid designed to teach us what every human really needs in order to excel! 
  The entire purpose of man isn’t just to live, but rather it is to live well, but we can’t live well without having our needs met! It’s problematic, however, when we barely have a grasp of what those needs actually entail! With Meet Maslow, you are going to be getting a no-nonsense guidebook to each step of the pyramid, learning about each need so that you can get closer to becoming a self-actualized member of society! It’s time to put away the pop psychology books and the fad self-help trends and turn to the wisdom of a man who more or less invented the way we perceive all needs. With his guidance, this book’s information and a little bit of hard work, you will find that you can begin to live life as a higher functioning individual in no time!

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  How to Reason + Reasoning in the...

  Richard L Epstein

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  Too often we're guided by what we last heard, by our friends' approval, by impulse—our desires, our fears.  Without reflection.  Without even stopping to think.   **  In this book you'll learn how to reason and find your way better in life.  You'll learn to see the consequences of what you and others say and do. You'll learn to see the assumptions that you and others make.  You'll learn how to judge what you should believe.  These are the skills we all need to make good decisions.  **  Claims.  Arguments.  Fallacies.  Analogies.  Generalizing.  Cause and Effect.  Explanations.  These are clearly set out with hundreds of examples from daily life showing how to use them.  Illustrations using a cast of cartoon characters make the concepts memorable.  And many exercises will help you to check your understanding.  **  Truly a book for all—from high school to graduate school, from auto repair to managing a company.  How to Reason will help you find a way in life that is clearer and not buffetted by the winds of nonsense and fear.   *******  In Reasoning in the Sciences, you'll learn how to use your reasoning skills to understand how scientists make definitions, what an experiment is, what can go wrong with an experiment, how scientists reason with models and theories, what counts as a good explanation in science, and how to distinguish science from magic, religion, and fraud.  No background in science is needed, just a healthy appetitite for learning.

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  ALL ABOUT MANIPULATION -...

  Herman Benson

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  "All About Manipulation: Understanding the Tactics and Impacts of Psychological Manipulation" is your comprehensive guide to recognizing, addressing, and protecting yourself from the intricate web of manipulative behaviors often encountered in personal and professional relationships. This book sheds light on the tactics used by manipulators and provides strategies for navigating these complex dynamics with resilience and awareness. 
  Inside this insightful guide, you'll explore:Psychological Manipulation Dynamics: An in-depth exploration of the psychological underpinnings and tactics used by manipulators to influence and control others.Manipulative Personality Types: Identification of common manipulative personality types and their characteristic behaviors and tendencies.Emotional Manipulation Techniques: Recognition of emotional manipulation tactics, such as guilt-tripping, gaslighting, and emotional blackmail, and strategies for addressing them.Behavioral Red Flags: How to identify behavioral red flags and warning signs indicative of manipulative intentions in personal and professional relationships.Empowerment and Self-Defense Strategies: Techniques for asserting personal boundaries, building self-confidence, and protecting oneself from manipulative influence.Herman Benson 
  Empower yourself with the insights to navigate complex relationships and environments with confidence and resilience. 
   

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  Crazy '08 - How a Cast of Cranks...

  Cait N. Murphy

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  From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifest—these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one would have laughed: The Cubs were, without doubt, baseball's greatest team—the first dynasty of the 20th century.Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 season—the year when Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went toe to toe to toe with John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's New York Giants and Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates in the greatest pennant race the National League has ever seen. The American League has its own three-cornered pennant fight, and players like Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and the egregiously crooked Hal Chase ensured that the junior circuit had its moments. But it was the National League's—and the Cubs'—year. Crazy '08, however, is not just the exciting story of a great season. It is also about the forces that created modern baseball, and the America that produced it. In 1908, crooked pols run Chicago's First Ward, and gambling magnates control the Yankees. Fans regularly invade the field to do handstands or argue with the umps; others shoot guns from rickety grandstands prone to burning. There are anarchists on the loose and racial killings in the town that made Lincoln. On the flimsiest of pretexts, General Abner Doubleday becomes a symbol of Americanism, and baseball's own anthem, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," is a hit. Picaresque and dramatic, 1908 is a season in which so many weird and wonderful things happen that it is somehow unsurprising that a hairpiece, a swarm of gnats, a sudden bout of lumbago, and a disaster down in the mines all play a role in its outcome. And sometimes the events are not so wonderful at all. There are several deaths by baseball, and the shadow of corruption creeps closer to the heart of baseball—the honesty of the game itself.  Simply put, 1908 is the year that baseball grew up.Oh, and it was the last time the Cubs won the World Series.Destined to be as memorable as the season it documents, Crazy '08 sets a new standard for what a book about baseball can be.

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  Small Medium Large - How...

  Colleen A. Dunlavy

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  We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods—from beds to batteries to printer paper—are available in a finite number of "standard sizes." What makes these sizes "standard" is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms—often hotly competing firms—reach such collective agreements? 
   
   
   
  In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and distribution in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not naturally diffuse throughout the US economy. On the contrary, formidable market forces blocked their diffusion. It was only under the cover of collectively agreed-upon, industry-wide standard sizes—orchestrated by the federal government—that competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and distribution. Without government promotion of standard sizes, the twentieth-century American variety of capitalism would have looked markedly less "Fordist." 
   
   
   
  Small, Medium, Large will make all of us think differently about the everyday consumer choices we take for granted.

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