What standards should we use to evaluate culturally distinct philosophies? What kind of barrier does language or cultural difference pose in our attempts to understand other traditions? How do we avoid our comparisons being biased?Doing Philosophy Comparatively answers these questions by providing a thorough overview of the methodology involved in extending philosophy across linguistic and cultural boundaries.Now revised and updated to showcase the...

Critics have argued that comparative philosophy is inherently flawed or even impossible. What standards can we use to describe and evaluate different cultures' philosophies? How do we avoid projecting our own ways of thinking onto others? Can we overcome the vast divergences in history, language, and ways of organizing reality that we find in China, India, Africa, and the West?Doing Philosophy Comparatively is the first comprehensive introduction to the fo...

Het waargebeurde Filthy Rich van James Patterson beschrijft op verbijsterende en indringende wijze hoe ver de tentakels van Jeffrey Epstein reikten, en hoe hij jarenlang aan gerechtigheid wist te ontkomen. Gebruikmakend van originele politieverhoren, rechtbankdocumenten en getuigenissen van slachtoffers, reconstrueert James Patterson de opkomst en ondergang van een man die zelfs ná zijn eerste veroordeling als zedendelinquent zijn gang kon blijven gaan.In 2019 werd Epstein dood aangetroffe...

“Il più potente e disgustoso dei casi venuti a galla con il #MeToo.”James Patterson“Epstein è fantastico. Con lui ci si diverte sempre.”Donald Trump“Si parlerà ancora a lungo del triste caso di Jeffrey Epstein, dei suoi turpi delitti, delle sue pacchiane dimore, dei suoi amici, e ovviamente della sua m...

I documenti segreti che stanno facendo tremare il potereNegli ultimi mesi migliaia di atti giudiziari, deposizioni, e-mail e accordi riservati – i cosiddetti «Epstein files» – sono diventati di dominio pubblico, riportando il nome di Jeffrey Epstein in prima pagina in tutto il mondo. Questi documenti rivelano come un uomo presentato per anni come genio della finanza e filantropo di Harvard e del MIT sia riuscito a costruire una rete di potere capace di coinvolgere presidenti, princ...

This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States – have assembled the most up-to-date research from a wide spectrum of disciplines including medicine, folklore and literature, to give the fullest account yet of the background and consequences of the Famine. Contributors include Dr Kevin Whelan, Profess...

Het waargebeurde Filthy Rich van James Patterson beschrijft op verbijsterende en indringende wijze hoe ver de tentakels van Jeffrey Epstein reikten, en hoe hij jarenlang aan gerechtigheid wist te ontkomen. Gebruikmakend van originele politieverhoren, rechtbankdocumenten en getuigenissen van slachtoffers, reconstrueert James Patterson de opkomst en ondergang van een man die zelfs ná zijn eerste veroordeling als zedendelinquent zijn gang kon blijven gaan.In 2019 werd Epstein...

Childhood friends turned high school rivals fall into a small-town fake dating scheme in this sweet, spicy, and utterly irresistible romance from the author of Give Me Butterflies.Fable Oaks never planned to return to Fern River. But after a string of failures, here she is, living in her parents’ backyard, watching her beloved late grandfather’s A-frame crumble around her. She can't seem to find her direction, and to make matters worse, Theo Nikolaou, her ...

In this delightfully humorous horror-fantasy novel, once again, hell threatens to break loose as Samuel Johnson and his ragtag group of friends must defend their town from shadowy forces more threatening than ever before...In this clever and quirky follow-up to The Gates and The Infernals, Samuel Johnson's life seems to have finally settled down—after all, he’s still got the company of his faithful dachshund, Boswell, and his bumbling demon friend...

From New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, a wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy and his dog and their journey to escape the fires of hell.“Roald Dahl meets Harry Potter”* in this wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons.Young Samuel Johnson is in trouble. Not only is his eyesight so poor that he mistakenly asks out a letter box on a date but an angry d...