- Death (The Open Yale Courses Series) by Shelly Kagan
The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
Implausible Beliefs: In the Bible, Astrology, and UFOs by Allan Mazur
Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality edited by Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent, David Wallace
God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion by Victor J. Stenger
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Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality edited by Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent, David Wallace
You say is biographical, but I'm worried you may be thinking of a different book. This book, as I understand it, is a collection of argumentative essays/papers by different thinkers arguing for different points. In fact, the 'authors' are actually just editors compiling this different writings into one spot.
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I haven't read the book, but every book I have read about poverty has helped me better understand the dynamics of poverty and to thus be in a better position to "get off my behind" in a more productive way.Schaps wrote:... the book on poverty is seemingly an obvious statement of social need - and further philosophising about something so obvious detracts from the need to get off our behinds and do something...
All philosohy could be considered something that "detracts from the need to get off our behinds and do something" if we focus too much on thinking and not enough on doing.
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People seem doomed to accept, search for and believe magical and outlandish solutions. The history of Science is littered with abandoned theories, worn out paradigms and defunct cosmologies.
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I am wondering if posting the selection of books a month in advance( and not 10 days as it is done now) help?Forswanked wrote:Not in school and cannot afford random purchases - ahh, the wonders of capitalism.
It could give us enough time to try to gather it from the different libraries!
So instead of publishing the selection for the month of August in July, if it is done in June (and voted for in the first week of July) we could have enough time, to gather the books (from a library if we cant afford buying them) and actually read all of them before we select one!
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I have to agree with you on that one for sure Newme.Newme wrote:I feel that the one about poverty is a pressing topic in need of exploring. According to the World Health Org., there are almost 1,000,000,000 men, women & children starving!
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