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    How To Be A Stoic

    Massimo Pigliucci

    Stoicism teaches us to acknowledge our emotions, reflect on what causes them and redirect them for our own good. The author shows how stoicism teaches us the importance of a…

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    Live Like A Philosopher

    Massimo Pigliucci, Gregory Lopez, Meredith Alexander Kunz

    An insightful and practical guide to living a happier life through lessons from nine key ancient philosophers

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    Beyond Stoicism

    Massimo Pigliucci, Gregory Lopez, Meredith Alexander Kunz

    A wide-ranging philosophical and practical guide that teaches how to incorporate the wisdom of many ancient philosophers and build upon a Stoic way of life

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    How To Be Good

    Massimo Pigliucci

    What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

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    The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living

    Massimo Pigliucci

    a Stoicism 2.0 for twenty-first century happiness’ Skye Cleary ‘A bold, contemporary updating of Stoicism for the present day’ John Sellars, author of Lessons in Stoicism Learn how to survive…

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    Denying Evolution: Creation, Scientism and the Nature of Science: Creation, Scientism, and the Nature of Science

    Massimo Pigliucci

    Denying Evolution aims at taking a fresh look at the evolution-creation controversy, dividing the blame equally between creationists and scientists: the former for subscribing to various forms of anti-intellectualism, the…

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    Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life

    Massimo Pigliucci,Gregory Lopez

    The answers to our daily worries and anxieties - big or small - lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Live Like a Stoic is the essential guide to help…

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    Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture

    Massimo Pigliucci

    The concept of phenotypic plasticity has allowed researchers to go beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy to gain insight into how organisims are shaped by the interaction of genetic and ecological factors…

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    How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well

    Massimo Pigliucci

    What Socrates’s greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

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    Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life

    Massimo Pigliucci

    A biologist-turned-philosopher shows how scientific discoveries can help resolve some of philosophy’s longest-debated issues

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    Nonsense on Stilts

    Massimo Pigliucci

    In this fully revised second edition, noted skeptic Massimo Pigliucci sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in an entertaining exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands…

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    How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well

    Massimo Pigliucci

    What Socrates’s greatest failure says about a 2,000 year old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

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    A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living

    Massimo Pigliucci (Suny Stony Brook)

    A brilliant philosopher reimagines Stoicism for our modern age in this thought-provoking guide to a better life. For more than two thousand years, Stoicism has offered a message of resilience…

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    How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

    Massimo Pigliucci (Suny Stony Brook)

    A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying…

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    A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control–52 Week-By-Week Lessons

    Massimo Pigliucci (Suny Stony Brook),Gregory Lopez

    A pragmatic philosophy more popular than ever--here are 52 ancient lessons to help you overcome adversity and find tranquility in the modern world

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    How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy

    Massimo Pigliucci,Skye Cleary

    A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life –

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    Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes

    A new voice in the nature-nurture debate can be heard at the interface between evolution and development. Phenotypic integration–or, how large numbers of characteristics are related to make up the…

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    Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? This title seeks to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as the demarcation problem.

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    Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? This title seeks to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as the demarcation problem.

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    Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism

    All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits-about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science…

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    Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology

    Massimo Pigliucci,Jonathan Kaplan

    ‘Making Sense of Evolution’ explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories - selection, adaptation, and species - that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many…

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    The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders

    Massimo Pigliucci

    What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people?

    Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates…

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    The Moral Psychology of Anxiety

    The Moral Psychology of Anxiety brings a variety of disciplinary perspectives to examine anxiety, providing historical context and incorporating recent advances in philosophical and psychological research on anxiety's nature, causes…

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    Meditations (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    Marcus Aurelius

    Based on the meticulous, time-honored translation by George Long and includes a succinct introduction to Stoicism and its practical application to daily life by Massimo Pigliucci as well as a…

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    Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology

    Charles Thorpe,Jonathan Kaplan

    ‘Making Sense of Evolution’ explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories - selection, adaptation, and species - that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many…

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    Stoic Foundations

    Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus

    An essential guide to the core texts of Stoic philosophy, featuring a new introduction from Massimo Pigliucci, author of How To Be A Stoic

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    Elige Tu Filosofia de Vida: Budismo. Taoismo, Estoicismo, Cristianismo, Existencialismo, Humanismo Y Otras

    Skye C Cleary,Daniel A Kaufman,Massimo Pigliucci

    Esta fascinante seleccion de ensayos reune a quince destacados filosofos que abordan lo que significa vivir segun determinadas filosofias de vida. Desde filosofias orientales (como el taoismo o el budismo)…

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    Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

    Julian S. Huxley

    The definitive edition of one of the most important scientific books of the twentieth century, setting out the conceptual structure underlying evolutionary biology.

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    Evolution - The Extended Synthesis

    Prominent evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey recent work that expands the core theoretical framework underlying the biological sciences.

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    Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections

    A comprehensive treatment of the concept of causation in evolutionary biology that makes clear its central role in both historical and contemporary debates.

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