Peter Cave: 15 books
Do Llamas Fall in Love?
33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In this stunning sequel to Peter Cave's bestselling philosophy books, Can a Robot be Human? and What's Wrong with Eating People, Peter Cave once again engages the reader in a romp through the best bits of philosophical thought. With the aid of tall stories, jokes, common sense and bizarre insights,...
The Big Think Book
Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Peter Cave’s bestselling trio of humorous philosophy titles What’s Wrong With Eating People?, Can a Robot be Human?, and Do Llamas Fall in Love? brought together in one big book.What makes me, me and you, you?What is this thing called love’? Does life have a point?Is no’ the right...
Ethics
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
From Confucianism to Kant’s categorical imperative, from the Ancient Greeks to Amnesty International, This essential volume presents ethics through a fascinating global historical lens and relates it to everyday life and 21st-century politics. Peter Cave traces the development of this key branch of...
Philosophy
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Philosophy, the love of wisdom”, is the product of our endless fascination and curiosity about the world the child of wonder. Through it, we seek to answer the most fundamental of questions: How do we know what we know? Does God exist? What is beauty? How should we live our lives? Who am I?In...
Schooling Selves
Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have attempted to reconcile the two goals. In this book,...
Humanism
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? Does a Godless universe imply moral relativism? With adherents including Einstein, Freud, Philip Pullman, and Frank Zappa, and often described as the thinking person’s religion, Humanism aims to...
Can A Robot be Human?
33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Can you believe someone who says I’m telling the truth now’? Can a robot be human? What’s the best way to win a game of chicken? And how do you know you’re not dreaming right now? In this book of puzzles and paradoxes, Peter Cave introduces some of life’s most important questions with tales...
What's Wrong With Eating People?
33 More Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
With the aid of tall stories, jokes, common sense and bizarre insights, Cave engages the reader in a romp through the best bits of philosophical thought. Tackling some of life’s most important questions, his brilliant puzzles that will keep you pondering throughout the night. From encounters with bears...
How to Outwit Aristotle
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Philosophy might make you think of dusty statues in togas or Zen masters meditating, but the philosophical world has far more to offer than ancient men in beards: it can also tell you everything there is to know about life, love and
death. In a series of highly original, entertaining and often extraordinary...
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Windswept
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
In Cold War parlance, the British government liked to think of it as a counter intelligence mission. To the Russians it would be seen as an act of international piracy. In an operation cloaked in secrecy, the elite men of the legendary Special Boat Squadron were to go up against the most sophisticated...
by Peter Cave
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to defeat what awaits them inside a top secret Nazi research facility? In the 1990s, sketchy reports of an accident in a high-security research facility deep within the remote, mountainous region of Kazakhstan filter through to American...
by Peter Cave
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission, But can the SAS prevent Britain descending into war-torn anarchy? Great Britain, 1995: With terrorist bombs destroying town and city streets, rising crime and a teenage drug problem that is out of control, police forces are stretched beyond their limit. And now...
Primary School in Japan
Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of a new curriculum in 2002, has been a source of fierce controversy. This book, based on an extended, detailed study of two...
Death in Godshill
An Isle of Wight Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
A 61-year-old farmer Frank Cave was found dead, seemingly killed with his own shotgun on a quiet farm on the Isle of Wight, early one morning in October 1940. After a police investigation, the woman who was Frank's young housekeeper, Mabel Attrill, was charged with his murder. After many twists and turns, the trial reached an unexpected conclusion
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