Christopher Phillips travels the world to pose Socratic questions about justice, courage, and other moral abstractions to groups he recruits for the purpose, choosing participants of all ages and backgrounds who know nothing about philosophy.
Phillips takes to the road to reignite the flame of wonder that was sparked by Socrates years ago. He recreates some of the discussions from his own Socrates Cafe, and encourages readers to find the value of questioning.
Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we're all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. Love here is not defined only or even primarily as eros, but in all its classic varieties - from love of family and love of neighbour to love of country, love of God, love of life and love ...
This is the illustrated biography of Richard Feynman, probably the most gifted physicist of his time. His story is told through personal reminiscences from his family, friends and colleagues, and is illustrated with over 100 photographs of Feynman at work and off-duty. Feynman's career included work on the atomic bomb, a Nobel Prize for Physics, ...
The test score gap between blacks and whites - on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence - is large enough to have far-reaching social and economic consequences. In their introduction to this book, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips argue that eliminating the ...
The development of photomontage techniques during the early 1920s and 1930s in Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States had a profound influence on contemporary art and mass media. "Montage and Modern Life" uncovers the roots of this complex relationship. Through unexpected juxtapositions and discontinuous images, and through some of the ...
This guide provides insights into the legal concerns that face professional photographers. Collecting unpaid debts, securing retainers, and constructing payment terms are addressed with a focus on the difficulties that are often associated with managing a photography business. Twenty-five sample forms are provided, including model and property ...
This book is the first to consider the outpouring of photo-based art created in China since the mid-1990s. Ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, these works reflect the turn toward media-based art that characterizes the 'next generation' of younger Chinese artists. In addition to fostering a new understanding of contemporary Chinese art, ...
This text traces interior design chronologically from the 1960s through the 1990s. Styles in design, the authors suggest, encapsulate the hopes, fantasies and ideals of a particular moment in time.
The most extraordinary scientist of his time, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman had an immense love of life and all it offered. No Ordinary Genius traces Feynman's remarkable adventures, inside and outside science, in his own words and those of his family, friends, and colleagues.
In Damned Yankee is a complex, often shocking, portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War and a sobering study of how the faults of men greatly affects history.
Ceci Ann approaches her day with an open and questioning mind. Why? Why not! This winsome model for thoughtful conversations will encourage young readers toward critical thinking in the years ahead. Full color.
In the last few years, new disputes have erupted over the use of group averages from census areas or voting districts to draw inferences about individual social behaviour. Social scientists, policy analysts and historians often have little choice about using this kind of data, but statistical analysis of them is fraught with pitfalls. The recent ...
Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we're all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. That is, love not defined only as eros or erotic love but in all its classical varieties - each is clarified and invigorated in Phillips' Socratic dialogues with people from all walks of ...
Bruce Springsteen, writer of more than 250 songs, is among the most literate rock singers. His songs touch people's hearts and minds. Simply put, he is the story teller of our generation. "Tougher Than the Rest" discusses the best of Springsteen's vast body of work, from "Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ" to "Devils & Dust". The author comments on ...
When the International Center of Photography launched "Strangers," its first Triennial, in 2003, its curators wrote that their goal was "to demonstrate photography's incomparable richness as a visual medium--in the form of still photographs, video, sculptural objects, and installation pieces. The result is a dynamic coherence that results as much ...
Since 2002, Sze Tsung Leong has been photographing the dramatic changes that are transforming the cities of China, revealing a process that begins with the destruction of traditional neighborhoods and ends in the mass construction of new urban environments. He travels with a large-format view camera, visiting cities including Beijing, Shanghai, ...
An analysis of Claiborne Fox Jackson, his rise to power through the tangle that was Missouri's antebellum politics, and his complex acquisitions in pursuit of his state's secession. The author seeks to reveal the process by which Missouri westerners became and remain Missouri southerners.
In 1994, Chinese artist Liu Zheng conceived of an ambitious photographic project called "The Chinese, which occupied him for seven years and carried him throughout China. Inspired by the examples of August Sander and Diane Arbus, he has captured a people and country in a unique time of great flux, providing a startling vision of the deep-rooted ...
Spanning some fifty-four years, The Union on Trial is a fascinating look at the journals that William Barclay Napton (1808-1883), an editor, Missouri lawyer, and state Supreme Court judge, kept from his time as a student at Princeton to his death in Missouri. Although a northerner by birth, Napton, the owner or trustee of forty-six slaves, ...
Christopher Phillips has brought to life a man, a story, and a voice lost in the din of competing post - Civil War narratives that each claim a timeless divide between North and South. William Barclay Napton (1808-1883) was an editor, lawyer, and state supreme court justice who lived in Missouri during the tumultuous American nineteenth century. ...
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