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Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR’s Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . . is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read—and finally, it all makes sense!

Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics (Synthese Historical Library, Vol. 13)
by Springer (Hardcover)

This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains ten books based on the famous doctrine of the golden mean which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Topics that Aristotle treats include the good for humanity, moral virtue, intellectual virtue, pleasure, friendship, and happiness.

Laurence Gonzales
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why
by Blackstone Audiobooks (CD)

After a plane crash, a 17 year old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash gave up and died. Laurence Gonzales delves into the science, psychology and art of wilderness survival. Examining stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death, he takes us to the top of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans, to the workings of the brain that control our behaviour.

Catherine Cavallaro Goodman, William G. Boissonnault
Pathology: Implications for the Physical Therapist
by W.B. Saunders Company (Hardcover)

B. Saunders. Univ. of Montana, Missoula. Text on clinical pathology as it relates to practice. By a Brandon/Hill author. For the student and therapist. Two-color illustrations. Extensively referenced. 5 U.S. contributors. DNLM: Pathology.

Susan Jacoby
The Age of American Unreason (Vintage)
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 2009-02-10)

A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces-usually treated as separate entities-that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of “junk thought” that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations
by Hackett Pub Co Inc (Hardcover)

Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Macmillan Audio (CD) (Release Date: 2007-03-20)

Edwin Abbott
Flatland (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
by Shambhala (Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-03-02)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
by BookSurge Publishing (Paperback) (Release Date: 2002-04-12)

Translated by Thomas Common. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1921 edition by Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea
by Amereon Limited (Hardcover)

Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the Twentieth Century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time—the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's ...

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