When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves 9780691212760, 9780691220086

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves 9780691220086

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today’s epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad

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The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves 9781250134042, 1250134048

Most of us probably don’t learn about Alexis de Tocqueville in school anymore, but his masterpiece, Democracy in America

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Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World 1615197931, 9781615197934

Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today In o

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The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair 9780691233901

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-being In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and

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When Bad Things Happen to Rich People 9781609091675, 9780875807096

When Bad Things Happen to Rich People is a novel of social satire, a black comedy set in Chicago in the summer of 1995.

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The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself 9781735601311

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Licence to be bad: how economics corrupted us 9780241325445, 0241325447

1. The shape of things to come -- 2. Trust no one -- 3. Wealth beats justice: The Curious Coase Theorem -- 4. The govern

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When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage 9780814739020

Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association’s 44th Division (the Society for

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Time to Save Democracy: How to Govern Ourselves in the Age of Anti-Politics 9781447338253

To govern ourselves or not to? This is the existential question of politics. With the rise of distrust, alienation, and

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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World 0691181209, 9780691181202

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception o

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