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David Weissman
Communities are vital to personal and social well-being because collaboration is required where skills and resources are scarce; their pathologies-anonymity and isolation, tribalism and murder-defeat us.
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David Mark Diamond
The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In tis…
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Explores how Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism. Analysing a diverse set of texts, David Mark…
David Hodges
Detective Kate and her husband Hayden are enjoying summer in Pembrokeshire. One night, someone tries to break into their cottage. Then a body is discovered in a burned-out caravan. Kate…
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William Gremmell
Discover the timeless wisdom of one of Buddhism's most profound scriptures in The Diamond Sutra. This ancient text, also known as Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra, has captivated spiritual seekers for centuries…
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David Diamond,David Weissman
Diamond and Weissman attribute their phenomenal success to a career-long focus on the motives and priorities of film sponsors and benefactors.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy with Maximum Dave
The history of science fiction and fantasy is littered with stories by Davids of distinction. Now, for the first time, an anthology by…
Closely argued but plainly written, Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will speaks for autonomy and responsibility when both are eclipsed by ideas that embed us in history or tradition. Our…
Philosophic attention shifted after Hegel from Kant’s emphasis on sensibility to criticism and analyses of the fine arts. The arts themselves seemed as ample as nature; a disciplined science could…
Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. This book avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of…
Zone Morality describes systems - families and businesses - created by the causal reciprocities of their members. Procedural democracy promises equity to people or systems having diverse interests when society…
This book describes a realist, fallibilist alternative when intuitionism and its psychocentric ontology are rejected. Weissman proposes an agenda for metaphysical inquiry and also a method for testing metaphysical claims…
Presents a philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity and freedom.
Examines the relationship of normativity and freedom.
Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.
This book shows how idealism is a consequence of the intuitionist method. Idealism develops from mental content inspected by mind, or as mind characterizing itself. Weissman declares that the idea…
Cites and criticizes a large number of theories proposed by authors from Plato to Wittgenstein and others exploring language theory and metaphysics. This book argues that a sentence is meaningful…
Attacks a problem central to the philosophy of mind and, by implication, to the theory of being: Are there potentialities, capabilities, which dispose the mind to think in one way…
Traces the history of mind-body dualism.
Asks if reality is divided: nature vs lived experience? Or is experience, with all its meanings and values, the complex expression of natural processes? The author champions the comprehensive naturalism…
Considers the various schools of thought on the nature of truth. Weissman argues that truth exists in the correspondence between statement and fact: what can be said about our world…
Formulates a metaphysics of nature, and the author applies his hypothesis to a range of topics in psychology, morals, sociology and politics.
Victoria J. Kimberling
A complete musical biography and an exhaustive bibliography with a catalog of David Diamond’s works and premiere performances through 1986.
Glenn Hendler (Fordham University, USA)
Provides a window into a moment when both phantasmatic and real relationships between straightness and queerness, between blackness and whiteness, and between utopia and dystopia, were in flux; Bowie in…
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David Zindell
From the author of ‘Neverness’ comes a powerful epic fantasy series, the Ea Cycle, as rich as Tolkien and as magical as the Arthurian myths. This is the climactic final…
David Eddings
Book One of the classic ELENIUM series introducing the Pandion Knight Sparhawk.
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Pop/Rock/R&B Vocal Solos
David Milnes
An English folk legend is washed up in the Far East, where he tries to begin again as a Neil Diamond impersonator. His Chinese agent helps him annihilate his old…
David Jeffries
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The latest developments and applications of diamond materials. This book describes and discusses different types of diamond materials, including polycrystalline diamond, thin films, graphite, graphene, and nanodiamond. It also discusses…
A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls is a 1751 handbook on valuing diamonds and pearls, with information on their manufacture, maintenance, history, and more. This vintage book will be of…
David De Vries
The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international…
David A. Romero
Diamond Bars: The Street Version is the re-release of previous material, now published as a leaner and meaner volume. Diamond Bars: The Street Version will make you laugh, cry, get…
David Oreck
Stop Discounting! Start Selling! For more than seven decades, David Oreck has been successfully marketing products to the American consumer. He took his little startup vacuum company and turned it…
Rene Descartes
Descartes’ ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics. This text…
David Mosby,Michael Weissman
Uses a realistic story that illustrates the paradox of excellence - the better you perform, the more invisible you become to everything but bad news. This book shows the symptoms…
