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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 174
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Atlas Shrugged, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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[2024]
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English
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"Today, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But anxiety isn't always or only a medical condition. Indeed, many philosophers argue that anxiety is a normal, even essential, part of being human, and that coming to terms with this fact is potentially transformative, allowing us to live more meaningful lives by giving us a richer understanding of ourselves. In Anxiety, Samir Chopra...
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[2024]
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¿Cómo puede ayudar la filosofía a impulsar los valores fundamentales para entender la sociedad actual? ¿Qué papel juegan el pensamiento crítico y las humanidades en el día a día de la gestión empresarial? ¿Cómo podemos pasar de la reflexión a la acción y dar sentido a nuestra vida y a nuestro trabajo? Pensadoras y visionarias muestra cómo las decisiones empresariales no se basan tan solo en teorías o modelos abstractos,...
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Get the Summary of Ryan Holiday's Discipline Is Destiny in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Discipline Is Destiny" by Ryan Holiday explores the pivotal role of discipline in achieving greatness and self-mastery. The book draws on historical figures like Lou Gehrig, whose consistent performance and modest lifestyle exemplified discipline, and Toni Morrison, who maintained a disciplined writing routine amidst challenges....
5) In the dark
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[2023]
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English
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A young girl steps into the woods and brings two communities separated by misunderstanding together.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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This book explores, from a high level, the parallels between the evolution of humans and the evolution of machines. The book reviews practical questions about the future of AI but also engages in philosophical discussions about what machine intelligence could mean for the human experience. The book focuses on what is intelligence and what separates intelligent species from non-so-intelligent ones. It concludes this section with the description of...
7) Ayn Rand
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1987.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ayn Rand.
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English
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These informative Essays are writings of alternative political and philosophical ideas - ideas that are thoughts which may be uppermost in our minds when we deal with questions about our extraordinary existence on this Planet. This vale of tears, and laughter - the agony, and the ecstasy.Though man has made extraordinary leaps and bounds in all technologies as well as know-how, and is proven also to be self-sacrificing in many instances at his best...
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La manipulación es un problema que mina la autonomía y el bienestar emocional de los individuos, por lo que es importante comprender sus mecanismos para prevenir y contrarrestar los efectos perjudiciales.
La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) ha sido aplicada para abordar problemas sociales y éticos, incluida la prevención de la manipulación.
Los algoritmos de IA analizan grandes cantidades de datos y detectan patrones asociados con tácticas manipuladoras....
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A petición de un amigo, en el 44. a. C. Cicerón trata de separar la amistad de la utilidad, tan unidas hasta entonces, cómo elegir bien a los amigos y cómo quererlos. Razona sobre su naturaleza y sus normas, y la exalta en las relaciones sociales y en la vida política, acudiendo a ejemplos conocidos de la historia de Roma que puedan capturar la atención del lector.
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WHY I DID NOT DIE A BOOK ON A LIFE OF RESILIENCE; A LIFE OF HARDINESS; A LIFE OF PLIABILITY LESSONS TAUGHT THROUGH REAL-LIFE NEAR-DEATH INCIDENTS. FATE LIFE & DEATH. A SIMPLE CYCLE. FATE ARE BIRTH & DEATH NOT PRESCRIBED? IS DEATH NOT A SIDE EFFECT OF LIVING? FATE ARE WE GIVEN MORE THAN ONE CHANCE, FOR OUR LAST DAY TO BE OUR LAST? HOW DOES ONE CONTEST FATE? FATE AFTER LIFE, DEATH HAS TO INEVITABLY FOLLOW. IT IS SIMPLY WRITTEN. IS THIS FATE?
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In the vast expanse of the mind lies a space, delicately poised between tangible reality and the ethereal unknown. This realm, governed by the unwavering justice and cosmic reason of the logos, is familiar to only a select few: philosophers who grasp its profound significance.
Within Pronoia: The Stoic Providence, the spotlight is cast not on a linear history of Stoicism, but on its deeper theoretical underpinnings. The narrative delves into the...
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"La dignidad de la persona, los derechos inviolables que le son inherentes, el libre desarrollo de la personalidad, el respeto a la ley y a los derechos de los demás son fundamento del orden político y de la paz social". Eso dice la Constitución española de 1978.
Sin embargo, no pocos advierten en el desarrollo legal una tendencia a construir una sociedad delirante, hostil a la dignidad del ser humano y a toda creencia, que contradice el acuerdo...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The FBI's Investigative Support Unit attempts to develop a profile of the criminal mind, by analyzing the clues at a crime scene. Everything tells us something about the unknown subject who committed the crime, and we can make various conclusions when we see patterns start to emerge.
#2 When interviewing prison ers, we try to know as much about them as possible before...
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El imperativo de autorrealización convierte a cada ciudadano en publicista de sí mismo. Las buenas acciones se truecan por exhibicionismo y golpes de efecto. No hay más bien que un tropel de bienes al peso, utilizados para halagar la buena conciencia de los consumidores.
La banalidad del bien pone énfasis en la palabra y trivializa la acción. El coraje cede su puesto a la molicie y el amor propio al autodesprecio. Los valores mercuriales del...
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En el escenario de la vida encontramos incontables oportunidades que se despliegan frente a nosotros. Sin embargo, es un hecho innegable que en muchos momentos las dejamos escapar, permitiendo que se desvanezcan en el horizonte de lo que podría haber sido. Detrás de esta elección aparentemente contraproducente yace la poderosa influencia de la duda y la falta de confianza en sí mismos y en nuestras capacidades.
La historia de la interacción con...
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This is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind, because the German word Geist has both meanings. The book's working title, which also appeared in the first edition, was Science of the Experience of Consciousness. On its initial publication,...
19) Soy
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Español
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La totalidad existencial no tiene divisiones, como tu y yo, que fomenta la dicotomia o dualidad, porque hemos aceptado la multiplicidad de conciencias o seres. Cuando profundizamos en la conciencia, descubrimos que solo existe el "estado de ser", no el ser limitado o condicionado. Ese "estado de ser", contiene todo lo que es.
La mente es la funcion de la conciencia para pensar, sentir y actuar en la realidad, pero si no tenemos la comprension de...
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La prédation dérive de l'esprit de mal. Elle est la résultante
de toutes les pensées et de toutes les institutions négatives. Elle se
manifeste par l'impérialisme, l'esclavagisme et le colonialisme.
C'est la source principale de la vie et de la prospérité occidentales
et orientales. C'est le substratum commun aux peuples occidentaux
et orientaux.
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