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The Good Life
Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being
Inbunden, 2015
1289 kr
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Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life, Michael Bishop brings together these complementary investigations and proposes a powerful, new theory …
Good Life
Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being
E-bok, 2014
495 kr
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Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life , Michael Bishop brings together these complementary investigations and proposes a powerful, new …
Transfigurations
Häftad, 2013
145 kr
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In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pinwheels. Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, 'Death and Designation Among the Asadi' has shown how …
Transfigurations
E-bok, 2013
40 kr
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In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pinwheels. Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, "Death and Designation Among the Asadi" has shown how …
No Enemy But Time
Häftad, 2013
145 kr
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Joshua Kampa is torn between two worlds - the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the 20th-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a new life as part of a tribe of protohumans. …
No Enemy But Time
E-bok, 2013
40 kr
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Joshua Kampa is torn between two worlds-the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the twentieth-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a new life as part of a tribe of …
Under Heaven's Bridge
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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A multinational expedition has landed on the planet Onogoro, a cold and dour world circling one star of a binary pair. Their objective is to investigate a strange alien race, known to the human visitors as the Kybers. These aliens, dwelling in a great network of ruined palaces, are partly …
Beneath the Shattered Moons
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Twelve thousand years in the future, mankind has survived two enigmatic, civilisation-destroying setbacks. Now a third holocaust is anticipated by the people of the island refuge of Ongladred. They fear destruction from invading barbarians of the Angromain Archipelagoes, the reappearance of a …
Stolen Faces
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Muphormosy, a disease not unlike leprosy, has ravaged the first settlers on the planet Tezcatl. Generations later, their similarly emaciated descendants live in a compound where they are isolated from the planet''s normal inhabitants. The new kommissar of the compound, Lucian Yeardance, cares for …
Little Knowledge
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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In the domed city of Atlanta, after the breakup of the United States, a young writer named Julian Cawthorn is in trouble. Because he insulted the daughter of a public official, Cawthorn is out of work, and virtually unemployable. He begs a temporary job on the city newspaper and finds himself …
Catacomb Years
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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The second book in the Urban Nucleus series, containing the following: Prelude: The Domes (1978) If a Flower Could Eclipse (1970) Interlude: The Testimony of Leland Turner (1979) Old Folks at Home (1978) Interlude: The City Takes Care of Its Own (1979) The Windows in Dante''s Hell (1973) Interlude: …
Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
E-bok, 2012
50 kr
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It seemed like a good idea; even a noble experiment. But the outcome was sheer hell. When the Balduin brothers escaped from the tedium of the human hive of Atlanta, Georgia, they had a mission. They were to voyage to the planet Trope, contact a tribe there known as the Ouemartsee, and transport it …
Who Made Stevie Crye?
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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For Mary Stevenson Crye, a beautiful young housewife, life had been wonderful. Loving husband, two delightful children, meaningful existence in a small Southern community. Then it all fell apart: with the sudden, unexpected death of her husband, Stevie must struggle to earn a living as a free-lance …
Ancient of Days
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Imagine a living specimen of a multimillion-year-old hominid species, Homo habilis, encountering the contemporary world. Told in the first-person narrative of Paul Loyd, divorced owner of a small town restaurant, Ancient of Days tells the story of a habiline man found wandering in a Georgia pecan …
Philip K Dick is Dead, Alas
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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It is 1982. The United States has a permanent Moonbase. Richard M. Nixon is in the fourth term of the "imperial Presidency." And an eccentric novelist named Philip K. Dick has just died in California. Or has he? Psychiatrist Lia Pickford, M.D., is nonplussed when Dick walks into her office in …
Count Geiger's Blues
E-bok, 2012
50 kr
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Xavier Thaxton is the arts editor of a great metropolitan newspaper, and is a man whose aesthetic values are of only the highest calibre. But after an accidental dip in a radioactive swimming hole, Xavier finds his life changing as he is forced, step by step, despite all he can do, to assume the …
Brittle Innings
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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For seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a 5'' 5" shortstop out of Tenkiller, Oklahoma, the summer of 1943 would be a season to remember. The country''s at war, and professional baseball needs able-bodied men. Danny''s headed for Highbridge, Georgia - home of the Goober Pride peanut butter factory and …
One Winter in Eden
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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One Winter in Eden contains the following tales: "One Winter in Eden" "Seasons of Belief" "Cold War Orphans" "The Yukio Mishima Cultural Association of Kudzu Valley, Georgia" "Out of the Mouths of Olympus" "Patriots" "Collaborating" "Within the Walls of Tyre" "The Monkey''s Bride" "Vernalfest …
Close Encounters With the Deity
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Through the means of what he calls "speculative fiction", Michael Bishop examines the various links between man and the supernatural by exploring the relationships and conflicts between mortals and deities of other worlds, in other times and within other cultures. His scope isn''t limited to alien …
At the City Limits of Fate
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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These 15 works from the Nebula Award winner and Hugo and World Fantasy Awards nominee, Michael Bishop, previously appeared in Omni , Asimov''s The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and other magazines and anthologies between 1981 and 1996.
Blue Kansas Sky
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Blue Kansas Sky spans the past and future with a collection of the author''s four short novels, including a coming-of-age tale set in Kansas in the late 1950s, an apartheid story from 1980s South Africa, and a twenty-first century spaceship adventure.
Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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Seventeen of writer Michael Bishop''s favorite stories were handpicked from his previously uncollected works to create this compelling collection, providing an excellent overview of a career that includes award-winning science fiction, horror, fantasy, satire, space opera, and mystery. In "A …
Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Cases and Materials, Volumes I & II
Av Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2285 kr
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Since the Second World War, dignity has increasingly been recognized as an important moral and legal value. Although important examples of dignity-based arguments can be found in western European and North American case law and legal theory, the dignity jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of …
City Quiet as Death
A Tor.Com Original
Av Michael Bishop, Steven Utley
E-bok, 2011
14 kr
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Between the incessant music of the stars and the spectre of a giant squid caught inside a locket ball, it is difficult for Don Horacio to maintain a restful mind. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Stich and His Critics
Av Michael Bishop, Dominic Murphy
E-bok, 2009
1303 kr
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Through a collection of original essays from leading philosophical scholars, Stich and His Critics provides a thorough assessment of the key themes in the career of philosopher Stephen Stich. Provides a collection of original essays from some of the world''s most distinguished philosophers Explores …
They Found Our Engineer
The Story of Arthur Goddard, the Land Rover's First Engineer
Häftad, 2011
189 kr
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Vernalfest Morning
E-bok, 2020
18 kr
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Urban warfare in a post-collapse scenario is cruel to all combatants. But when the fighters are children, their resilience and passions combine to make for a bittersweet tragedy.
