Author: Stephen Greenleaf
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9781883402877
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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San Francisco PI Tanner checks out a surrogate mother for a tycoon and his wife. After a thorough investigation, including in her bed, he gives her full marks, she takes the money and disappears. Now Tanner must find her.
Author: Stephen Greenleaf
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143910638X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Performing a background check on a prospective surrogate mother for childless tycoons Millicent and Stuart Colbert, detective John Marshall Tanner uncovers terrible secrets when the surrogate disappears two months into her pregnancy.
Author: Thomas Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199919755
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877793410
Category : Antonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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The ideal guide to choosing the right word. Entries go beyond the word lists of a thesaurus, explaining important differences between synonyms. Provides over 17,000 usage examples. Lists antonyms and related words.
Author: John Howie (of Lochgoin.)
Publisher:
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Category : Covenanters
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861717147
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Essential Mind Training is the first volume in the Tibetan Classics series, which aims to make available accessible paperback editions of key Tibetan Buddhist works drawn from Wisdom Publications' Library of Tibetan Classics. The key to happiness is not the eradication of all problems but rather the development of a mind capable of transforming any problem into a cause of happiness. Essential Mind Training is full of guidance for cultivating new mental habits for mastering our thoughts and emotions. This volume contains eighteen individual works selected from Mind Training: The Great Collection, the earliest compilation of mind-training (lojong) literature. The first volume of the historic Tibetan Classics series, Essential Mind Training includes both lesser-known and renowned classics such as Eight Verses on Mind Training and The Seven-Point Mind Training. These texts offer methods for practicing the golden rule of learning to love your neighbor as yourself and are full of practical and down-to-earth advice. The techniques explained here, by enhancing our capacity for compassion, love, and perseverance, can give us the freedom to embrace the world.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Aristotle
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Author: Aristotle
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Thomas Reid
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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