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Toshiko Takaezu

Worlds Within

AvGlenn Adamson,Dakin Hartm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

563 kr

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An expansive look at the multifaceted American artist Toshiko Takaezu within the history of postwar artmaking Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was an American artist whose multidisciplinary work in ceramics, painting, sculpture, weaving, and installation innovatively drew from the natural world, combining expressionist energies with influences from East Asia. The closed ceramic forms for which she is best known are effectively abstract paintings in the round. Her reputation as a ceramic artist, however, has obscured the breadth of her output in other mediums and her role within the larger art movements of the twentieth century. This book provides the first retrospective assessment of Takaezu’s art and life, representing her diverse oeuvre, which spanned six decades, and her hybrid identity as an Asian American woman, artist, and teacher. This ambitious volume features essays exploring Takaezu’s biography, her background as a Hawai‘i-born artist of Okinawan heritage, the relationship between her abstract work and that of her contemporaries, the role of cultural exchange in her art, her impact as an educator, and more. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 300 images of artworks and archival photographs, and including an updated chronology, exhibition history, and recollections from the artist’s former apprentices, the book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of this singular artist’s career. Published in association with The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum Exhibition Schedule: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York(March 20–July 28, 2024) Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI(September 11, 2024–January 12, 2025) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston(March 2–May 18, 2025) Chazen Museum of Art(September 8–December 23, 2025) Honolulu Museum of Art(February 13–July 26, 2026)

Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson

The Authorised Biography: A Sunday Times Bestseller

AvScott Rowley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER“Perceptive analysis (and) also a fundamentally human story... this superb book rues Adamson's absence while celebrating his music’s still audibly beating heart.” 5/5 MOJOThe official biography of former Big Country frontman chronicling his career highs and tragic death.This is the story of Stuart Adamson, co-founder of not one but two seminal Scottish post-punk groups, The Skids and Big Country. But this is a book that is about much more than music. Stay Alive is about alcoholism, abuse, family, fame, addiction, depression and working-class pride. And along the way there are stories of drug busts, debauchery, flag burning, fist-fights, prison escapes and riots, with a revolving cast of characters from The Clash to the Rolling Stones. For the first time, both of Stuart Adamson’s wives, children and bandmates tell their side of the story: unflinching, funny and brutally honest.

Challenger Sale

How To Take Control of the Customer Conversation

AvMatthew Dixon,Brent Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

179 kr

THE BESTSELLING SALES CLASSIC WITH 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships - and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them.The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not is what drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board, to investigate the skills, behaviours, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades.Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one - the Challenger - delivers consistently high performance.‘Read it, think about it, implement it. You, and your organization, will be glad you did’Professor Neil Rackham, author of SPIN Selling‘The Challenger Sale breaks the winning elements of this powerful approach into a set of teachable skills that can take even a top sales team to a new level of results delivery’Dan James, former chief sales officer, DuPont

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Filosofi i den klassiska världen

AvPeter Adamson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2020

277 kr

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Filosofi i den klassiska världen är första delen i Peter Adamsons bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor , baserad på hans populära podcast med samma namn. Här berättar han om den västerländska filosofins gryning på grekiskt område under 500-talet f.Kr., med början i försokratikernas storslagna naturteorier. De följs på 400-talet av sofisterna och Sokrates, vars ifrågasättanden av rådande normer och kunskapsanspråk bildar bakgrunden till Platons mångskiftande dialoger från 300-talet, där han utvecklar sin lära om ideala former. Perioden avslutas med Aristoteles, Platons främste student och kritiker, som ger filosofin en ny vinkling och ett nytt arbetssätt med sina vetenskapliga avhandlingar och sitt empiriskt inriktade tänkande.

Under denna korta tidsrymd läggs grunderna till de flesta teman och frågeställningar som behandlats inom filosofin sedan dess, från metafysik och kunskapsteori, logik och språkfilosofi till etik och politisk filosofi, samtidigt som konturerna till senare tiders vetenskaper avtecknar sig, alltifrån matematik till biologi och medicin. Med de skolor som Platon och Aristoteles inrättade, Akademin respektive Lykeion, bildas också en modell för filosofiska och vetenskapliga forskningsgemenskaper, under resten av antiken liksom i senare tider.

Peter Adamson är professor i senantik och arabisk filosofi vid Ludwig-Maximilians universitet i München. Han har publicerat flera böcker och många artiklar i vetenskapliga tidskrifter.

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Philosophy in the Reformation

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 8

AvPeter Adamson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

272 kr

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In this latest volume of A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson presents a lively and accessible introduction to European philosophy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Philosophy in the Reformation focuses on the parallel and intertwining emergence of humanism and of religious reform, as figures like Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin remade the intellectual and spiritual life of Europe. In the first three parts of the book, philosophical developments in central Europe, France, and Britain are examined. A wide range of topics and controversies are discussed, from debates over free will to the legitimacy of tyrannicide. This was also the time of the Northern Renaissance, which saw a resurgence of ancient concepts like skepticism and atomist theories of matter. The volume's final section charts the Catholic reaction to these epochal events in the Counter-Reformation, and especially the ideas of Spanish thinkers like Molina and Suárez. Quite a few familiar figures are discussed, such as Montaigne and Copernicus. But as always in this series, Adamson lavishes attention on fascinating figures who are often ignored in the history of philosophy, like John Dee, Robert Fludd, and Oliva Sabuco (who is just one of numerous women intellectuals covered). Another feature of the book is its attention to literature and the arts: the reader will learn how the achievements of Dürer, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and Cervantes relate to philosophical currents of the time. The eighth volume in the A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series takes us to the threshold of the early modern era and sets the stage for the developments that unfolded during the Enlightenment.

The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy

AvPeter Adamson,Richard C. Taylor

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

408 kr

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Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. It also includes chapters on areas of philosophical inquiry across the tradition, such as ethics and metaphysics. Finally, it includes chapters on later Islamic thought, and on the connections between Arabic philosophy and Greek, Jewish, and Latin philosophy. The volume also includes a useful bibliography and a chronology of the most important Arabic thinkers.

Challenger Sale

Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

AvMatthew Dixon,Brent Adamson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

334 kr

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The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board to investigate the skills, behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades. Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, "The Challenger Sale" argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one - the Challenger - delivers consistently high performance. Instead of bludgeoning customers with endless facts and features about their company and products, Challengers approach customers with unique insights about how they can save or make money. They tailor their sales message to the customer's specific needs and objectives.Rather than acquiescing to the customer's every demand or objection, they are assertive, pushing back when necessary and taking control of the sale.

Philosophy in the Islamic World

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3

AvPeter Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

142 kr

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The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by providing full coverage of Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslims, and by taking the story of philosophy from its beginnings in the world of early Islam all the way through to the twentieth century. Major figures like Avicenna, Averroes, and Maimonides are covered in great detail, but the book also looks at less familiar thinkers, including women philosophers. Attention is also given to the philosophical relevance of Islamic theology (kalam) and mysticism--the Sufi tradition within Islam, and Kabbalah among Jews--and to science, with chapters on disciplines like optics and astronomy. The book is divided into three sections, with the first looking at the first blossoming of Islamic theology and responses to the Greek philosophical tradition in the world of Arabic learning. This 'formative period' culminates with the work of Avicenna, the pivotal figure to whom most later thinkers feel they must respond. The second part of the book discusses philosophy in Muslim Spain (Andalusia), where Jewish philosophers come to the fore, though this is also the setting for such thinkers as Averroes and Ibn Arabi. Finally, a third section looks in unusual detail at later developments, touching on philosophy in the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires and showing how thinkers in the nineteenth to the twentieth century were still concerned to respond to the ideas that had animated philosophy in the Islamic world for centuries, while also responding to political and intellectual challenges from the European colonial powers.

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Filosofi i den hellenistiska och romerska världen

AvPeter Adamson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

289 kr

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Filosofi i den hellenistiska och romerska världen är andra delen i Peter Adamsons bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor . I denna volym följer vi filosofins utveckling i Medelhavsområdet under närmare tusen år, från 300-talet f.Kr. fram till 500-talet e.Kr., från de grekisktalande områdena i öst till det romerska riket under kejsartid.

Den hellenistiska och romerska filosofin präglas av en ökad inriktning på etik med fokus på frågan om människans möjligheter att uppnå ett lyckligt och bekymmersfritt liv. Den frågan besvaras på olika sätt av kyniker, epikuréer och stoiker, som alla gör anspråk på att förvalta arvet efter Sokrates. De utmanas av den pyrrhonska skepticismen, som försöker uppnå samma mål sinnesfrid genom att ifrågasätta möjligheten att veta någonting alls. Mot denna bakgrund växer nyplatonismen fram med Plotinos som främste representant, vars religiöst färgade platonska metafysik kommer att påverka filosofin under mer än tusen år. Efterhand som kristendomen vinner fotfäste i romarriket går även den i dialog med antikens filosofiska tradition, från de tidiga grekiska och romerska kyrkofäderna till Augustinus och Boethius under senantiken.

Peter Adamson är professor i senantik och arabisk filosofi vid Ludwig-Maximilians universitet i München, och en av vår tids främsta filosofihistoriker.

Medieval Philosophy

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 4

AvPeter Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

142 kr

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Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history of philosophy, yet one of the least widely known. Adamson introduces us to some of the greatest thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition, including Peter Abelard, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Roger Bacon. And the medieval period was notable for the emergence of great women thinkers, including Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. Original ideas and arguments were developed in every branch of philosophy during this period - not just philosophy of religion and theology, but metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, moral and political theory, psychology, and the foundations of mathematics and natural science.

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Filosofi i det gamla Indiens värld

AvPeter Adamson,Jonardon Ganeri

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

289 kr

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Filosofi i det gamla Indiens värld ger en bred överblick av tänkandet på den indiska subkontinenten, och presenterar en mångfald olika tankeskolor, i vilka religiösa och filosofiska strävanden oupplösligen sammanflätas. Utgångspunkten är hinduismen och den brahminska kulturen, med dess inriktning på förståelse av jagets natur och uttolkning av de gamla Vedaskrifterna. Den har givit oss förklarande texter som Upanishaderna men även det litterära eposet Mahabharata med dess mest berömda avsnitt Bhagavadgita. Buddhismen och jainismen växer fram som reaktioner på denna tradition, men delar samtidigt dess syn på filosofin som i första hand ett sätt att leva. För Buddha handlar det om att följa icke-jagets väg för att utsläcka begäret och uppnå befrielse från lidande (nirvana), för jainismen om praktiserandet av icke-våld (ahimsa) för att frigöras från karma och därmed undgå återfödelse.

Den senare utvecklingen yttrar sig i en enormt rik litteratur på sanskrit, pali och andra språk. Med tiden ser vi en ökad fokusering på kunskapsteori och metafysik, språk och logik, men även på frågor om medvetandets och jagets existens och natur. Tanken på filosofins betydelse för livet går dock aldrig förlorad, och vi finner även praktiskt inriktade discipliner som yoga och tantra tillsammans med ayurvedisk medicin och en på dramatiken inriktad estetik.

Boken ingår i serien "Filosofihistoria utan luckor" men kan även läsas självständigt. Någon liknande översikt över indisk filosofi har aldrig funnits på svenska.

Peter Adamson är professor i senantik och arabisk filosofi vid Ludwig-Maximilians universitet i München och en av vår tids främsta filosofihistoriker. Denna del av "Filosofihistoria utan luckor" är skriven tillsammans med Jonardon Ganeri, professor vid Torontos universitet och specialist på sydasiatisk filosofi.

Filosofi i Bysans och Renässansens Italien : en filosofihistoria utan luckor

AvPeter Adamson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

289 kr

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Filosofi i Bysans och renässansens Italien är sjätte volymen i Peter Adamsons bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor . Han tecknar här en levande och inträngande bild av tänkandet i två stora intellektuella kulturer, under en period från senantiken fram till nya tiden.

I bokens första del spåras filosofins utveckling i Bysans från Johannes av Damaskus på 700-talet till 1400-talets lärda, verksamma i spänningsfältet mellan kristen teologi och antikens tänkande. Förutom genrer som historieskrivning, retorik och brevkonst, med centrala gestalter som Michael Psellos och Anna Komnena, diskuteras också den filosofiska betydelsen av kulturella fenomen som ikonoklasmen och hesychasmen, liksom synen på könen och den vetenskapliga litteraturen.

Andra delen leder vidare från Bysans till renässansens Italien och den humanistiska rörelsen, som inspireras av den grekisktalande österns förmedling av arvet från antiken. Här berättas om filosofins och vetenskapens pånyttfödelse, med välkända namn som Niccolò Machiavelli, Christine de Pizan och Pico della Mirandola. Återupptäckandet av antikens litteratur och filosofi stimulerar till odling av latinsk stilkonst och litterär kritik, filologi och historia liksom till samhällsutopier och diskussioner om styrelseskick. Ur konfrontationen mellan humanismens platonism och den aristoteliska och skolastiska traditionen växer de första ansatserna till den moderna naturvetenskapen fram, med företrädare som Giordano Bruno och Galileo Galilei.

Peter Adamson är professor i senantik och arabisk filosofi vid Ludwig-Maximilians universitet i München och en av vår tids främsta filosofihistoriker.

Star Schema The Complete Reference

AvChristopher Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

469 kr

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The definitive guide to dimensional design for your data warehouse

Learn the best practices of dimensional design. Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales. Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a step-by-step guidebook for beginners and a comprehensive resource for experts.

This all-inclusive volume begins with dimensional design fundamentals and shows how they fit into diverse data warehouse architectures, including those of W.H. Inmon and Ralph Kimball. The book progresses through a series of advanced techniques that help you address real-world complexity, maximize performance, and adapt to the requirements of BI and ETL software products. You are furnished with design tasks and deliverables that can be incorporated into any project, regardless of architecture or methodology.

Master the fundamentals of star schema design and slow change processingIdentify situations that call for multiple stars or cubesEnsure compatibility across subject areas as your data warehouse growsAccommodate repeating attributes, recursive hierarchies, and poor data qualitySupport conflicting requirements for historic dataHandle variation within a business process and correlation of disparate activitiesBoost performance using derived schemas and aggregatesLearn when it's appropriate to adjust designs for BI and ETL tools

Challenger Customer

Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

AvMatthew Dixon,Brent Adamsonm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

182 kr

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From the authors of the internationally-bestselling business classic The Challenger Sale'A handbook of practices that will help you get into your customers' heads, deliver good value, and win the sale' Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive---------------------------------------------------------------In The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now they reveal something even more surprising: the highest-performing sales teams don't focus on friendly, attentive customers. Instead, they target challenger customers.Challenger customers are sceptical, less interested in meeting and ultimately indifferent as to who wins the deal. But they also have the credibility, persuasive skill and will to challenge the status quo that will get a deal to the finish line far more often than customers who are easier to connect with.Based on new research from thousands of B2B marketers, sellers and buyers around the world, The Challenger Customer shows you how to find these 'mobilizers' and equip them with the tools to effectively challenge their own organizations on your behalf. This ground-breaking book is the blueprint you need to make the sale again and again.The Challenger Sale, Amazon bestseller, Sales & Selling, January 2024

Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy

A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6

AvPeter Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

215 kr

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Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First, he traces the development of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from such early figures as John of Damascus in the eighth century to the late Byzantine scholars of the fifteenth century. Adamson introduces major figures like Michael Psellos, Anna Komnene, and Gregory Palamas, and examines the philosophical significance of such cultural phenomena as iconoclasm and conceptions of gender. We discover the little-known traditions of philosophy in Syriac, Armenian, and Georgian. These chapters also explore the scientific, political, and historical literature of Byzantium. There is a close connection to the second half of the book, since thinkers of the Greek East helped to spark the humanist movement in Italy. Adamson tells the story of the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We encounter such famous names as Christine de Pizan, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo, but as always in this book series such major figures are read alongside contemporaries who are not so well known, including fascinating figures like Lorenzo Valla, Girolamo Savonarola, and Bernardino Telesio. Major historical themes include the humanist engagement with ancient literature, the emergence of women humanists, the flowering of Republican government in Renaissance Italy, the continuation of Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy alongside humanism, and breakthroughs in science. All areas of philosophy, from theories of economics and aesthetics to accounts of the human mind, are featured. This is the sixth volume of Adamson's History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series, taking us to the threshold of the early modern era.

Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 7

AvPeter Adamson,Chike Jeffers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

299 kr

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In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy. Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora. The story starts at the very beginning by asking what it would mean to engage philosophically with evidence left by prehistoric peoples of Africa, and proceeds to discuss the philosophical traditions of ancient Egypt, late ancient and early modern Ethopia, and Islamic philosophy in West Africa. A number of chapters then explore the idea of philosophy in African oral traditions, considering the methodological debates that have raged between African philosophers like John Mbiti, Paulin Hountondji, and Henry Odera Oruka. Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers also consider philosophical responses to the situation brought about by the transatlantic slave trade and the early colonization of Africa. Starting from early figures like Anton Wilhelm Amo and Phillis Wheatley, and the ideas that drove the Haitian Revolution, extensive discussion is then given to Africana philosophy of the nineteenth century. The incendiary ideas of David Walker, the nuanced rhetoric of Frederick Douglass, and the clashing approaches of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois are among the highlights here. Significant attention is given to female thinkers like Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells. The coverage is also geographically diverse, with chapters on figures who worked not only in Africa and the United States, but also Brazil, Canada, Britain, France, and the Caribbean.

Classical Philosophy

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1

AvPeter Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

169 kr

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Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, he offers an accessible, humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy with the Presocratics, the probing questions of Socrates, and the first full flowering of philosophy with the dialogues of Plato and the treatises of Aristotle. The story is told 'without any gaps', discussing not only such major figures but also less commonly discussed topics like the Hippocratic Corpus, the Platonic Academy, and the role of women in ancient philosophy. Within the thought of Plato and Aristotle, the reader will find in-depth introductions to major works, such as the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, which are treated in detail that is unusual in an introduction to ancient philosophy. Adamson looks at fascinating but less frequently read Platonic dialogues like the Charmides and Cratylus, and Aristotle's ideas in zoology and poetics. This full coverage allows him to tackle ancient discussions in all areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, ethics and politics. Attention is also given to the historical and literary context of classical philosophy, with exploration of how early Greek cosmology responded to the poets Homer and Hesiod, how Socrates was presented by the comic playwright Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon, and how events in Greek history may have influenced Plato's thought. This is a new kind of history which will bring philosophy to life for all readers, including those coming to the subject for the first time.

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2

AvPeter Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

142 kr

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Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.

Philosophy in the Islamic World

A Very Short Introduction

AvPeter Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

107 kr

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In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this remains one of the lesser-known philosophical traditions. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Adamson explores the history of philosophy among Muslims, Jews, and Christians living in Islamic lands, from its historical background to thinkers in the twentieth century.Introducing the main philosophical themes of the Islamic world, Adamson integrates ideas from the Islamic and Abrahamic faiths to consider the broad philosophical questions that continue to invite debate: What is the relationship between reason and religious belief? What is the possibility of proving God's existence? What is the nature of knowledge? Drawing on the most recent research in the field, this book challenges the assumption of the cultural decline of philosophy and science in the Islamic world by demonstrating its rich heritage and overlap with other faiths and philosophies.

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Filosofi i den islamiska världen

AvPeter Adamson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2019

289 kr

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Filosofi i den islamiska världen är tredje delen i Peter Adamsons bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor , baserad på hans populära podcast med samma namn. Här täcks filosofin på det islamiska området från äldsta tider fram till 2000-talet, med uppmärksammande av såväl muslimska som judiska och kristna tänkare, från de arabiska kärnländerna till Andalusien i väster och Indien i öster. Tänkandet i den islamiska världen spelade en viktig roll i förmedlingen av antikens filosofiska och vetenskapliga arv till Europa, men som Adamson visar med många exempel utgör det också en rik och fascinerande idévärld i sig, med originella bidrag inom såväl metafysik och kunskapsteori som etik och religionsfilosofi.

De två första delarna i serien, om filosofin i den grekiska och romerska antikens värld, utkommer inom kort. Denna del kan läsas oberoende av de övriga.

Peter Adamson är professor i senantik och arabisk filosofi vid Ludwig-Maximilians universitet i München. Han har publicerat flera böcker och många artiklar i vetenskapliga tidskrifter om arabisk filosofi.

Svensk mångfaldspolitik : en kritik från vänster

AvGöran Adamson

Häftad, Svenska, 2020

234 kr

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Multikulturalism och mångfald, har vi lärt oss, progressiva idéer från vänster. Kritiken betraktas därför som rasistisk och reaktionär. Är det här sant? För att ta reda på det studerades hur mångfalden har påverkat det svenska universitetet; dels i Mångfald i Högskolan, socialdemokratins 260-sidiga rapport från år 2000 som drev uppfattningen att våra lärosäten skall baseras på multikulturalism, dels i de "mångfaldsplaner" som samtliga svenska lärosäten strax därefter presenterade. Anti-rasismen är mångfaldens paradnummer. Ryktet är oförtjänt. I själva verket bygger multikulturalismen på en rad egenskaper som samtliga vetter mot rasism, som t.ex. etnisk självbelåtenhet och den tunna hinnan mellan etnicitet och nationalism. Extremhögern har en rasistisk inställning till andra kulturer. Multikulturalister ersätter rasism med nyfikenhet och fascination. I båda fallen sätter man minoritetsgruppen på piedestal för avsky eller idealisering och utestänger den från normalt mänskligt liv. Men boken vill inte bara beskriva vad som händer inom universitetet, utan även vad som händer i samhället. Multikulturalism och mångfald utöver idag ett inflytande i det svenska samhället som överträffar marxismens på tidigt 1970-tal. Än allvarliga är det faktum att mångfaldens progressiva förespråkare inte förstår att de idéer de slåss för är reaktionära. Göran Adamson är docent i sociologi. Hans avhandling vid London School of Economics (LSE) handlar om europeisk högerpopulism. Han ställde frågan: Varför röstar människor på dessa partier? Göran Adamson kom till slutsatsen att det mindre berodde på rasism än på populism - alltså på en kritik av den politiska eliten. Väljarna kände inte sig som insiders utan som outsiders. Hans forskningsintresse är numera ett angränsande område - multikulturalism, mångfald, och spänningsfältet mellan elit och folk. Göran Adamson har varit bosatt i Indonesien, Etiopien, Vietnam och Thailand. Han bor tidvis i Amman, Jordanien.

Del 4 - En filosofihistoria utan luckor

Filosofi i medeltidens värld

AvPeter Adamson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

336 kr

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Filosofi i medeltidens värld är fjärde delen i Peter Adamson bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor . Medeltiden har ofta behandlats som en dunkel parentes i filosofins historia, men Peter Adamson visar att den är en lång och innehållsrik period, från 800-talets karolingiska renässans fram till 1400-talet, när det är dags för nästa renässans. Under medeltiden utforskas filosofins alla områden på djupet, från metafysik, logik och kunskapsteori till etiskt och politiskt tänkande, med utveckling av originella idéer och argument.

Här finns välkända namn som Pierre Abélard, Thomas av Aquino och William Ockham, vilka tillsammans med otaliga anonyma tänkare lämnat efter sig en stor mängd texter där filosofi och religion ofta går hand i hand, utan att förnuftet någonsin helt underkastas teologins doktriner. I Adamson framställning möter vi dock inte bara universitetens skolmän utan också mystiker och skönlitterära författare, såväl kvinnliga som manliga, vilka prövar nya tankemöjligheter på folkspråket och utmanar både skolastikens och kyrkans läror och traditioner. Medeltidens filosofi står för en avgörande förmedling av det västerländska tänkandets arv från antiken till den moderna tiden, ofta med föregripande av senare idéer inom filosofi och vetenskap.

Peter Adamson är professor i senantik och arabisk filosofi vid Ludwig-Maximilians universitet i München, och har publicerat ett flertal böcker och artiklar om medeltidens filosofi.

Wahls Protocol

A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles

AvTerry Wahls,Eve Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

278 kr

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An integrative approach to healing chronic autoimmune conditions by a doctor, researcher, and sufferer of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) whose TEDx talk is already a web sensation Like many physicians, Dr. Terry Wahls focused on treating her patients’ ailments with drugs or surgical procedures—until she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000. Within three years, her back and stomach muscles had weakened to the point where she needed a tilt-recline wheelchair. Conventional medical treatments were failing her, and she feared that she would be bedridden for the rest of her life. Dr. Wahls began studying the latest research on autoimmune disease and brain biology, and decided to get her vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids from the food she ate rather than pills and supplements. Dr. Wahls adopted the nutrient-rich paleo diet, gradually refining and integrating it into a regimen of neuromuscular stimulation. First, she walked slowly, then steadily, and then she biked eighteen miles in a single day. In November 2011, Dr. Wahls shared her remarkable recovery in a TEDx talk that immediately went viral. Now, in The Wahls Protocol, she shares the details of the protocol that allowed her to reverse many of her symptoms, get back to her life, and embark on a new mission: to share the Wahls Protocol with others suffering from the ravages of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions.

Classical Indian Philosophy

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 5

AvPeter Adamson,Jonardon Ganeri

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant literature, the Vedas, and the explanatory works that these inspired, known as Upanisads. They also discuss other famous texts of classical Vedic culture, especially the Mahabharata and its most notable section, the Bhagavad-Gita, alongside the rise of Buddhism and Jainism. In this opening section, Adamson and Ganeri emphasize the way that philosophy was practiced as a form of life in search of liberation from suffering. Next, the pair move on to the explosion of philosophical speculation devoted to foundational texts called 'sutras,' discussing such traditions as the logical and epistemological Nyaya school, the monism of Advaita Vedanta, and the spiritual discipline of Yoga. In the final section of the book, they chart further developments within Buddhism, highlighting Nagarjuna's radical critique of 'non-dependent' concepts and the no-self philosophy of mind found in authors like Dignaga, and within Jainism, focusing especially on its 'standpoint' epistemology. Unlike other introductions that cover the main schools and positions in classical Indian philosophy, Adamson and Ganeri's lively guide also pays attention to philosophical themes such as non-violence, political authority, and the status of women, while considering textual traditions typically left out of overviews of Indian thought, like the Carvaka school, Tantra, and aesthetic theory as well. Adamson and Ganeri conclude by focusing on the much-debated question of whether Indian philosophy may have influenced ancient Greek philosophy and, from there, evaluate the impact that this area of philosophy had on later Western thought.

Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds

AvJoy Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

279 kr

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Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life

The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions

AvTerry Wahls,Eve Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

254 kr

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The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System

AvWill Cole,Eve Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

261 kr

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The Challenger Sale

AvMatthew Dixon,Brent Adamson

Inbunden, Tyska, 2019

430 kr

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The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

AvBrent Adamson,Matthew Dixon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

347 kr

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Born Free

AvJoy Adamson

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

110 kr

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An unforgettable adventure of love, survival and the call of the wildFor more than fifty years, the enchanting tale of Joy Adamson and Elsa, the lioness, has mesmerized readers across the globe. Rescued as an orphaned cub and raised at Joy's home in Kenya, Elsa found a home and a mother in Joy. But Elsa had been born free, and Joy knew that she had to be returned to her rightful home in the wild once she was old enough to fend for herself. Moving and inspiring, Born Free and its sequels, Living Free and Forever Free, have charmed readers for generations. 'Moving and incredible, [with] some of the most extraordinary photographs ever seen' The New York Times

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