Martin Cohen: 27 books
by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to design a baby? What would you do? Would you always do the right thing? Is there a right thing? In this second edition of his thought-provoking and highly engaging introduction to ethics, Martin Cohen brings us eleven brand...
by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
London, The Wallace Collection, the present day. A smartly-dressed, modern woman sits facing Sir Thomas Lawrence’s magnificent portrait of the Countess of Blessington (1789 -1849). She is the countess herself – the most beautiful and best-read woman of her day – novelist, poet, scholar, traveller,...
The Doomsday Machine
The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Today, there are over one hundred nuclear reactors operating in our backyards, from Indian Point in New York to Diablo Canyon in California. Proponents claim that nuclear power is the only viable alternative to fossil fuels, and due to rising energy consumption and the looming threat of global warming,...
No Holiday
80 Places You Don't Want to Visit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
In this first Disinformation Travel Guide, Martin Cohen visits exotic locations (80 of them!) but with a different aim than the usual travel book: to seek out the suffering and injustices, not to skirt them. We will see the dark red waters of “Murdering Creek” in Australia, silent testament to...
Paradigm Shift
How Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe, and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Why do giraffes have long necks? It can't really be for reaching tasty leaves since their main food is ground level bushes, tidy though that explanation would be. And how does relativity theory cope with the fact that the observable universe defies prediction by being far too small and anything but homogeneous?...
by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Does Farmer Field really know his prize cow, Daisy, is in the field? When is an unexpected exam not wholly unexpected? Are all bachelors (really) unmarried? Martin Cohen's 101 Philosophy Problems, Fourth Edition introduces philosophy in an entertaining but informative and stimulating way. Using philosophical...
Cuentos filosóficos
Una historia alternativa que nos descubre los personajes, las tramas y las escenas ocultas de la verdadera historia de la filosofía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2016
¿Realmente fue Sócrates esa especie de santo en que lo convirtió la filosofía posterior a él?
¿Por qué es dudoso que Descartes haya dicho realmente «pienso, luego existo»?
¿Y qué demonios tenía Sartre en contra de los camareros?
Este libro examina los fascinantes detalles...
by Iris Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
“A brilliant newcomer ... Cohen is not only a talented writer; she is an artist.”—Andre Aciman, New York Times**-bestselling author of** Call Me by Your Name**, the novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film**
A love letter to classic literature and an illuminating look at newfound...
by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Confused by metaphysics? In a muddle with aesthetics? Intimidated by Kant? Then look no further! Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition is a complete crash-course in philosophical thought, covering key philosophers, philosophical history and theory and the big questions that affect us today. Tying in...
Mind Games
31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This original and innovative book is an exploration of one of the key mysteries of the mind, the question of consciousness. Conducted through a one month course of both practical and entertaining ‘thought experiments’, these stimulating mind-games are used as a vehicle for investigating the complexities...
by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Turbocharge your reasoning with Critical Thinking
Just what are the ingredients of a great argument? What is the secret to communicating your ideas clearly and persuasively? And how do you see through sloppy thinking and flim-flam? If you’ve ever asked any of these questions, then this book...
by Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This guide covers the main schools of thought from the Ancient Chinese philosophies of Confucius and Lao Tzu, Ancient wisdom from Aristotle, Plato, Zeno and Pythagoras through to those most influential of philosophers studied the world over - Hegel, Marx, Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein...
by Robert Arp, Martin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
Discover the simple way to understand and remember the most groundbreaking concepts in 3,000 years of philosophical thought.
Each idea is broken down into three stages:
1/ The helicopter view, which gives you an introduction to the idea, and some context around it.
2/ The shortcut, which...
The Eclipse of 'Elegant Economy'
The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Elizabeth Gaskell might have been amused to learn that the Victorian 'elegant economy' she mocked so poignantly in Cranford reached a new apogee in the mid-twentieth century and endured the invasion of its precise antithesis, 'conspicuous consumption'. For Britons of all classes the years of austerity...
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