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17 produkter
Drunk
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Häftad, 2022
214 kr
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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place.Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and …
Trying Not to Try
The Ancient Art of Effortlessness and the Surprising Power of Spontaneity
Häftad, 2015
130 kr
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A Guardian Best Book of 2014A 2014 Brain Pickings Best Book on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live MeaningfullyWhy is it hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an athlete who …
Creating Consilience
Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
Av Mark Collard, Edward Slingerland
E-bok, 2011
522 kr
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Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been framed as bringing the study of …
Mind and Body in Early China
Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism
Inbunden, 2019
634 kr
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Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and qualitative …
Mind and Body in Early China
Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism
E-bok, 2018
391 kr
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Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and qualitative …
Mind and Body in Early China
Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism
E-bok, 2018
391 kr
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Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and qualitative …
Effortless Action
Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
Inbunden, 2003
2169 kr
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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors …
Effortless Action
Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
Häftad, 2007
710 kr
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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors …
Creating Consilience
Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
Av SLINGERLAND, Edward Slingerland m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2260 kr
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Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been framed as bringing the study of …
Creating Consilience
Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
Av Mark Collard, Edward Slingerland
E-bok, 2011
522 kr
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Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been framed as bringing the study of …
Creating Consilience
Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
Av Edward Slingerland, Mark Collard
Häftad, 2012
813 kr
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Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been framed as bringing the study of …
Effortless Action
Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
E-bok, 2007
489 kr
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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland''s analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors …
Effortless Action
Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
E-bok, 2003
489 kr
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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland''s analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors …
Drunk
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Inbunden, 2021
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284 kr
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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and …
What Science Offers the Humanities
Integrating Body and Culture
Häftad, 2008
601 kr
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What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing the study of culture. It focuses on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to …
What Science Offers the Humanities
Integrating Body and Culture
Inbunden, 2008
1514 kr
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What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing the study of culture. It focuses on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to …
Trying Not to Try
Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity
E-bok, 2014
164 kr
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A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a …
