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  • The Red Wind Howls

    A Novel

    by Tsering Dondrup ...
    Translated by Christopher Peacock ...
    A remarkable novel by one of Tibet’s foremost authors, The Red Wind Howls is a courageous and gripping portrayal of Tibetan suffering under Mao’s regime. The story delves deep into forbidden history, spanning the famine of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and, most taboo of all, the 1958 Amdo rebellion when Tibetans rose in armed revolt against the Chinese state. Tsering Döndrup ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • New Essays on Normative Realism

    by Paul Boghossian, Christopher Peacocke ...
    It's difficult to explain the point of normative judgments--judgments like 'You ought to donate to charity,' or 'You ought to believe that smoking is bad for you, given the evidence'--without assuming that such judgments express objective truths. And yet philosophers have always been puzzled by such a 'realism' about the normative, for an array of conceptual, epistemological, and metaphysical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Primacy of Metaphysics

    by Christopher Peacocke ...
    This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning. What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, on the one hand, and the ways you think about them on the other? Is the nature of the world prior to the nature of thought and meaning, or not? Christopher Peacocke argues that the nature of the world - its metaphysics - is always ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness

    by Christopher Peacocke ...
    Series series Context And Content
    Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation of such a subject of consciousness. He develops a new treatment of subjects, distinct from previous theories, under which subjects were regarded either as constructs from mental events, or fundamentally embodied, or Cartesian egos. In contrast, his ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Truly Understood

    by Christopher Peacocke ...
    In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated. Examination of specific concepts shows that a grasp of these concepts has to be characterized in terms of reference, identity, and relations to the world. Peacocke develops a positive general theory of understanding ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • From Zero To Hero

    by Christopher Peacock ...
    Here's a special message for every Network Marketer who needs to build their business, but hasn't nailed the duplication part yet...If you want to succeed with network marketing, then pay very close attention!Many Network marketers mistakenly believe they'll get rich overnight, with little effort and it will be easy...But nothing could be further from the truth.Introducing "From Zero To Hero" - a ... Read more

    $6.82 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

    by Tsering Dondrup ...
    Translated by Christopher Peacock ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup’s career to create a panorama of Tibetan ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Short Stay Management of Chest Pain

    Edited by W. Frank Peacock, Christopher P. Cannon ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) continues to challenge our health care system in the complexity of presentation and the ever increasing number of patients exhibiting signs and symptoms of an acute coronary syndrome. Written by leading experts, Short Stay Management of Chest Pain provides scientific and clinical insights on the management of patients who arrive at the hospital with a presentation ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Notes on the Pekingese

    by Takbum Gyel, Christopher Peacock ...
    Series Book 7.6 - Ploughshares Solos
    Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”Available now are nine new Ploughshares Solos, longform ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

    Translated by Christopher Peacock ...
    by Tsering Dondrup ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup’s career to create a panorama of Tibetan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Being Realistic about Reasons

    by T. M. Scanlon ...
    T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell)

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
    In the seminal work 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,' first published in 1922, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between language, reality, and thought. The text unfolds through a series of propositions, meticulously structured to elucidate the limits of language and its role in depicting the world. Wittgenstein's distinctive style combines precision ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus