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Metaphors We Live by
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George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors ...
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, A V Miller (Translator), J N Findlay (Foreword by)
Expounds upon consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, spirit, religion and absolute knowing and also supports Kant, denounces skepticism and hails idealism.
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The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception
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John MacArthur
MacArthur reclaims the unwavering certainty of God's Truth and anchors Christians in the eternal, immovable promises that are found in His Word.
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No Future Without Forgiveness
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Professor Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu, who has worked rigorously on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has put together his hard-earned thoughts on the nature of forgiveness and reconciliation in this story of South Africa's post-apartheid healing. Without any saccharine formulas, his tempered work maintains humanistic ideals for moving forward.
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Old Turtle and the Broken Truth
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Douglas Wood, Jon J Muth (Illustrator)
This is a fable about love in which a young girl seeks knowledge from a wise old turtle. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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On Truth
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Harry G Frankfurt
Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. (Philosophy)
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Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
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Steve Hagen
With depth, honesty, and clarity, "Buddhism Is Not What You Think" focuses on the single most essential impulse in any serious spiritual inquiry - the desire to awaken. It's a book about being awake - about being fully human. The Buddha was not interested in theology or cosmology. He didn't speak on these subjects, and in fact, would not answer ...
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The Jesus You Can't Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ
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John MacArthur, Jr.
Renowned Bible teacher and bestselling author MacArthur reintroduces the compelling and often unsettling passion and fierceness of Jesus' ministry.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth
One of the most important documents of slavery ever written, this landmark in the literature of African-American women is the eloquent autobiography of a woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. The spiritual, inspiring narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's 30 years as a slave in upstate New York.
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The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith looks at today's economy and America's military actions in Iraq and contends that we observe the current state of the nation in a cloud of myth, believing that stockholders and owners run our corporate world.
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The Grace and Truth Paradox
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Randy Alcorn
Bestselling author Alcorn offers a simple two-point checklist for Christlikeness based on John 1:14. Alcorn shows the reader how to show the world Jesus--offering grace instead of the world's apathy and tolerance, offering truth instead of the world's relativism and deception.
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Six Great Ideas: Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Liberty, Equality, Justice: Ideas We Judge By, Ideas We Act on
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Mortimer Jerome Adler
In SIX GREAT IDEAS Adler discusses the nature of what he considers to be the six ideas fundamental to the way that we judge and act: truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality, and justice. In doing so, he has created an accessible introduction to philosophical thinking.
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Pragmatism
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William James
'The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and to me, at definite instances in our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one'. With these words, William James, one of the great minds of American philosophy, captures the power of pragmatism, a theory first developed ...
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Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
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Patricia C McKissack, Fredrick L McKissack, Jr.
A biography of the abolitionist, activist, feminist, and preacher who was born a slave in 1797. Along with the story of Sojourner Truth's life, the authors also explore the general history of slavery, and profile leading figures in the abolitionist movement. Quotes from Truth's speeches are used to enliven the text.
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The Varnished Truth
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David Nyberg
Everyone says that lying is wrong. But when we say that lying is bad and hurtful and that we would never intentionally tell a lie, are we really deceiving anyone? In this wise and insightful book, David Nyberg exposes the tacit truth underneath our collective pretense and reveals that an occasional lie can be helpful, healthy, creative, and, in ...
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Three Narratives of Slavery: Narrative of Sojourner Truth/Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl/The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
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Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Prince
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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers
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Professor Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, ...
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Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
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Robert Holdstock
A scientist and his son travel into the ancient world of Ryhope Wood, where they learn mysterious secrets of the universe, but are trapped in the forest.
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Pragmatism and the Meaning of Truth
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William James, Professor A J Ayer (Introduction by)
James attacks the transcendental, rationalist tradition in philosophy and tries to clear the ground for the doctrine he called radical empiricism.
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Truth Slayers
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Josh McDowell, Bob Hostetler
Satan's forces want to keep a team of young people from coming to a revelation of God through an understanding of His precepts and principles. And the devil and his minions are pulling out the stops to make sure their eyes remain darkened to the truth.
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Truth: A Guide
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Simon Blackburn
Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: Is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another?
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Truth: A Guide for the Baffled
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Simon Blackburn
The author of the highly popular book "Think" illuminates "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth.
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The Sapphire Princess Helps a Mermaid
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Jahnna N Malcolm, Neal McPheeters (Illustrator)
Atlanta, a mermaid from the Undersea, comes to stay with Sabrina. Atlanta tells a lot of stories. But can she be believed?
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Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers
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Professor Richard Rorty
This volume complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard Rorty's philosophical papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, and Essays on Heidegger and Others. The essays in the volume engage with the work of many of today's most innovative thinkers including Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques ...
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Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life
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Patricia Hampl (Editor), Elaine Tyler May (Editor)
Balancing precariously between history and literature, memoir writers have finally found their place on the bookshelf. But increased notoriety brings intense scrutiny: memoirists are expected to create a narrative worthy of fiction while also saying true to the facts. Historians, too, handle tricky issues of writing from 'real life', when ...
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