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Being and Duty – ebook
Jacek Jadacki
The book is comprised of three components. The first component analyses the creative contribution to the theory of imperatives and norms provided by 20th-century Polish researchers. The second component summarizes their reflections and considerations. The third component is an anthology of the classic writings of Polish authors of the time; it constitutes an illustration of the first part and indicates...Data dostępności:
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The Man Who Couldn't Die. The Tale of an Authentic Human Being – audiobook
Olga Slavnikova
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...Data dostępności:
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Wasted Time – audiobook
Edward Hertrich
A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada’s prison system. Born and raised in Toronto’s Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years. In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars....Data dostępności:
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Red Wolf – audiobook
Jennifer Dance
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more....Data dostępności:
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Naturalism, Normativity and Explanation – ebook
Robert Audi
This book critically examines philosophical naturalism, evaluates the prospects for naturalizing such normative properties as being a reason, and proposes a theory of action-explanation. This theory accommodates an explanatory role for both psychological properties such as intention and normative properties such as having an obligation or being intrinsically good. This overall project requires distinguishing...Data dostępności:
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Earthlings – ebook
Shirman Stoone
This is one of the most important books of the XXI century. It should be included in your book collection. What does it contain that is so out of the ordinary? It is a code and a key to immortality. Answers to the most important questions and eternal dilemmas: Why do I live? What is the purpose of my life? How did this happen that I am alive? Who is the one that made it possible for me to be alive?...Data dostępności:
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The Greatest Athlete (You've Never Heard Of). Canada's First Olympic Gold Medallist – audiobook
Mark Hebscher
Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation. Who was the first Canadian to Win an Olympic Gold Medal? When Mark Hebscher was asked this simple trivia question, he had no idea that it would lead him on a two year odyssey, researching a man he had never heard of. Paralyzed as a child and told he would never walk again, George...Data dostępności:
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Every Boy I Ever Kissed – audiobook
Nellwyn Lampert
A bold step toward a new cultural narrative around sex. Sex was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who'd been brought up thinking the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert, losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple. Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises...Data dostępności:
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Relationals – ebook
Peter McCormick
In a world increasingly beset by climate change, pollution, epidemics, extinctions, and ever more generalized violence, more thoughtful and effective collective responses are needed. Were some persons, institutions, and communities, to change their most basic priorities from mainly preserving individual and social privileges to serve the communal and fundamental relational values of all, both history...Data dostępności:
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Jak być ateistą. Dlaczego sceptycy bywają często nie dość sceptyczni – ebook
Mitch Stokes
W swojej książce Mitch Stokes stawia czoło poglądom ateistycznym wymierzonym przeciwko chrześcijaństwu. Szczególną uwagę zwraca jednak na zaletę ateizmu, mianowicie na jego zdeklarowany sceptycyzm. Jak pisze, sceptyczne stanowisko ateistów do niego przemawia, ale – i temu właśnie problemowi Stokes poświęca najwięcej miejsca – wielu niewierzących nie traktuje sceptycyzmu dość poważnie, nie stosują oni...Data dostępności:
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