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At Our Wits' End
Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future
Av Edward Dutton, Michael A. Woodley of Menie Yr.
Häftad, 2018
220 kr
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We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' End . The authors take us on a journey through the growing body of evidence that we are significantly less intelligent now than we were a hundred years ago. The research proving this is, at once, …
Prophets of Doom
Häftad, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
220 kr
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Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy years in a worldview wedded to the inexorable rise of globalisation and GDP-growth at any cost. However, the end of the Cold War failed to produce the end of history as hoped, a fact brought home to …
Get Over Yourself
Nietzsche for Our Times
Av Patrick West
Häftad, 2017
149 kr
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Get Over Yourself both uses Nietzsche's philosophy to understand our society, and takes our society to explain his philosophy.
Our Last Great Illusion
A Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy Culture
Häftad, 2004
139 kr
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RE-ISSUED WITH INDEX. 'Therapy may be mad,' declares Rob Weatherill in this outspoken volume. Therapy here means particularly psychotherapy and counselling, but should be also taken to signify the universal logic of the post-modern therapeutic culture of well-being, happiness and enjoyment. More …
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom
Av Martin López-Corredoira, Tom Todd m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
420 kr
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There can be no doubt that discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion or beliefs should not be tolerated in academia. Surprisingly, however, in recent years, policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), officially introduced to counteract discrimination , have increasingly led to …
Snake That Swallowed Its Tail
Some Contradictions in Modern Liberalism
Av Mark Garnett
Häftad, 2004
301 kr
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Liberal values are the hallmark of a civilised society. Yet they depend on an optimistic view of the human condition, Stripped of this essential ingredient, liberalism has become a hollowed-out abstraction. Tracing its effects through the media, politics and the public services, the author argues …
Darwinian Conservatism
Häftad, 2005
300 kr
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The Left has traditionally assumed that human nature is so malleable, so perfectible, that it can be shaped in almost any direction. Conservatives object, arguing that social order arises not from rational planning but from the spontaneous order of instincts and habits. Darwinian biology sustains …
Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
Häftad, 2020
220 kr
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Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public culture. It examines the various causes and uses of image/property defacement as a tool of political, national, religious and artistic process. This is one …
Earthy Realism
The Meaning of Gaia
Av Mary Midgley
Häftad, 2007
132 kr
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GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university …
Enemies of Progress
Dangers of Sustainability
Häftad, 2008
300 kr
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This polemical book examines the concept of sustainability and presents a critical exploration of its all-pervasive influence on society, arguing that sustainability, manifested in several guises, represents a pernicious and corrosive doctrine that has survived primarily because there seems to be …
Paradoxical Primate
Av Colin Talbot
Häftad, 2004
135 kr
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Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet …
Democracy — A Work in Progress
An Irreverent Exercise in Political Thought
Häftad, 2019
275 kr
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' Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those that have been tried before .' — Winston Churchill. So how should mankind organise itself to ensure a civilised society? In this personal, and sometimes challenging, work the author argues that an idealised form of political …
Don't Believe What You Think
Arguments for and against SCAM
Av Edzard Ernst
Häftad, 2020
432 kr
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So-called alternative medicine (SCAM*) is largely useless; very few SCAMs demonstrably generate more good than harm. Yet, SCAM is popular and has grown into a huge business. Spending on SCAM in Australia (2016) was estimated to be AUS$3.9bn, in the UK (2008) £4.5bn, and in the US (2012) US $30.2bn. …
Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism: On the Ideas of Jordan Peterson
Häftad, 2020
433 kr
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Jordan Peterson has attracted a high level of attention. Controversies may bring people into contact with Peterson's work, but ideas are arguably what keep them there. Focusing on those ideas, this book explores Peterson’s answers to perennial questions. What is common to all humans, regardless of …
ZAP
Free Speech and Tolerance in the Light of the Zero Aggression Principle
Av Gerard Casey
Häftad, 2019
447 kr
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We're all in favour of free speech — except when we’re not! Often it’s a case of 'free speech for me, but not for thee’. The regulation of speech is a matter that is typically dealt with arbitrarily without there being any obvious principled basis for the decisions that are made. Is hate speech, …
After #MeToo
Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity and Sundry Cultural Delights
Av Gerard Casey
Häftad, 2020
433 kr
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In After #MeToo , Gerard Casey provides a critical assessment of the #MeToo movement, situating it in the context of the radical feminism of which it is just the latest manifestation. Apart from its legitimating an indiscriminate attack on men and masculinity, Casey argues that the #MeToo movement …
Hidden Agender
Transgenderism's Struggle Against Reality
Av Gerard Casey
Häftad, 2021
447 kr
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In Hidden Agender , Gerard Casey develops a timely and provocative defence of free speech and toleration against the transgenderist ideology that has infiltrated so much of the media, the political establishment and the law. Opposing ideas, not individuals, Hidden Agender provides a compelling …
Identity Politics and Tribalism
The New Culture Wars
Häftad, 2021
220 kr
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'Has the world gone mad?'…this is a question that we’ve heard time and again during the last years. Everyone is convinced that something is wrong with politics, the culture, and our society, but what exactly is the problem and how can we overcome it? This book will guide the reader through a …
Artivism
The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism
Häftad, 2022
227 kr
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From Banksy to Extinction Rebellion, artivism (activism through art) is the art of our era. From international biennale to newspaper pages, artivism is everywhere. Both inside museums and on the streets, global artivism spreads political messages and raises social issues, capturing attention with …
Past is a Future Country
The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution
Av Edward Dutton, J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles
Häftad, 2022
220 kr
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Since the 1960s, the West has moved ever-leftwards. 'Equality' and ‘feelings’ are central to the New Religion that rejects all traditional values. Yet beneath the institutionally dominant ‘Left’ stews a growing and restless ‘Right’. How has this fractured situation come about? What will the future …
Charles, The Alternative King
An Unauthorised Biography
Av Edzard Ernst
Häftad, 2023
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
475 kr
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King Charles has entertained a long-standing love affair with alternative medicine. This book describes his passion as it developed during the last 40 years. The King's beliefs, opinions, and ambitions are critically assessed against the background of the scientific evidence. In most instances, the …
God Effect
How Suggestion and Ritual Shape Religion and Medicine through Placebo Responses
Av Colin Brewer
Häftad, 2026
220 kr
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The God Effect is the first book of its kind, revealing the way in which there is a common factor which links medicine and religion — the way in which people respond to the actions of doctors, by feeling better, is identical to the way in which people feel better after praying, being counselled, or …
Moral Mind
A Study of What it is to be Human
Av Henry Haslam
Häftad, 2005
132 kr
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The reality and validity of the moral sense — which ordinary people take for granted — took a battering in the last century. Materialist trends in philosophy, decline in religious faith, and a loosening of traditional moral constraints contributed to a shift in public attitudes, with many decent …
Right Road to Radical Freedom
Häftad, 2006
135 kr
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This work focuses on the topic of freedom. The author starts with the old issue of free will — do we as individual human beings choose our conduct, at least partly independently, freely? He comes down on the side of libertarians who answer Yes, and scorns the compatibilism of philosophers like …
Joseph Conrad Today
Häftad, 2007
334 kr
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This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad's work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad's scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the …
Healing, Hype or Harm?
A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine
Av Edzard Ernst
Häftad, 2008
309 kr
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The scientists, academics and practitioners writing this book are not 'against' complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), but they are very much ‘for’ evidence-based medicine and single standards. They aim to counter-balance the many uncritical books on CAM and to stimulate intelligent, …
Seeking Meaning and Making Sense
Av John Haldane
Häftad, 2008
291 kr
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Collection of short essays that range across philosophy, politics, general culture, morality, science, religion and art, focusing on questions of meaning, value and understanding.
In Bed with Madness
Trying to make sense in a world that doesn't
Häftad, 2008
135 kr
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Globalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the world's local bank’, English football teams without English players and an irrepressible desire for more as enough is never good enough – the blanket is always too short. Our personal world as much as our social and political realities seem to have …
Self and Society
Studies in the Evolution of Culture
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
300 kr
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A series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq. The enlarged new edition contains extra essays …
