Dieser Autor wählt seine Bücher mit großer Sorgfalt aus, was sich in den hohen Bewertungen für Werke widerspiegelt, die er liebt und bewundert. Seine literarischen Vorlieben gelten der klassischen Literatur, insbesondere der britischen, wobei er Autoren wie Jane Austen, Charles Dickens und Anthony Trollope schätzt. Obwohl von einer breiten Palette gelesener Bücher beeinflusst, schöpft er bewusst maßgeblich aus den philosophischen Einsichten von Bertrand Russell und David Hume.
Paradoxien enthüllt, wie seltsam es in der Welt des Denkens aussehen kann. In acht Kapiteln nimmt dieses Buch Sie auf eine atemberaubende Reise mit. Ihnen begegnen Dinge, die jeglicher Intuition trotzen oder sogar an das Absurde grenzen. Paradoxien enthält eine Fülle von Gedankenexperimenten, praktischen Beispielen und Übungsaufgaben, und Sie lernen einige große Namen kennen, die sich mit Paradoxien beschäftigt haben, von altgriechischen Philosophen bis hin zu Albert Einstein.
Few brigades of the Civil War can boast of a record as distinguished as that of New York's 69th, yet it has never fully received the attention warranted by its record of military excellence, distinctive reputation, and the unusual perspective its members brought to the Civil War. In fact, the69th was engaged in nearly every major action of the eastern theater; its military reputation was well deserved and its combat casualties, which are some of the highest of the war, are testimony to the soldiers' collective bravery and patriotism. In his post as war correspondent for the New York Herald, Capt. David Power Conygham was required to be an eyewitness to the many battles on which he reported - some of the experiences he would later describe when writing the history of the Irish Brigade. Conygham's account of the Irish Brigade isone of the best - filled with vivid accounts of battle, wit and humor, and an appendix of scrupulously gathered biographical data on the men who served the unit.
Drawing on the writings of the great philosophers, You Kant Make it Up sends the reader on thrilling, non-stop tour of their most outrageous and counter-intuitive conclusions. Harry Potter is real. Matter doesn't exist. Dan Brown is better than Shakespeare. All these statements stem from philosophy's greatest minds, from Plato to Nietzsche. What were they thinking? Overflowing with compelling arguments for the downright strange - many of which are hugely influential today - popular philosopher Gary Hayden shows that just because something is odd, doesn't mean that someone hasn't argued for it. Spanning ethics, logic, politics, sex and religion, this unconventional introduction to philosophy will challenge your assumptions, expand your horizons, infuriate, entertain and amuse you.
A self-confessed malcontent takes to the road and discovers the joy to be found in the simplest of pursuits