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Language and Thought by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Anshen Transdisciplinary Lectureships in Art, Science and the Philosophy of Culture
Look to Windward (#7 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture | Reading Level: good
It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means ...Show more
Steve Jobs and Philosophy by Shawn E. Klein
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy
Steve Jobs represents a whole range of values and ideas in pluralistic American culture. He was a barefoot hippy capitalist who did more to change our everyday lives than anyone since Thomas Edison. Coming from modest means and education, he revolutionized several key industries and became fantastically ...Show more
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for ...Show more
Surface Detail (Culture #9) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power ...Show more
Thailand - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Roger Jones
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Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart!
For many outsiders Thailand still conjures up images of the East at its most mysterious and enchanting - a view largely formed by Hollywood films like "The King and I." Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today it is a r ...Show more
The Good Place and Philosophy by William Irwin (Series edited by); Kimberly S. Engels (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser.
Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC's The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show's philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical ...Show more
The Hobbit and Philosophy: for When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way by William Irwin
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic--just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchanting "prequel" to The Lor ...Show more
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture | Reading Level: very good
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding n ...Show more
The Player Of Games (#2 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, compute ...Show more
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A collection of short fiction by the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Against a Dark Background". The title story is a novella continuing the "Culture" sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.