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How to Think About God

A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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How to Think About God

A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Dr. Adler extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas without relying on faith, mysticism, or science. Instead, he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent upon a suspension of disbelief. Lightning Print On Demand Title

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Simon and Schuster

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0020160224

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Six Great Ideas

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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Six Great Ideas

By: Mortimer J. Adler

This enlightening study is the result of group discussions at Dr. Adler's annual seminar in Aspen, Colorado, and conversations between Dr. Adler and Bill moyers filmed for public television. Each summer, Mortimer J. Adler conducts a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education, and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of the six great ideas that are the subject of this book: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty - the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice - the ideas we act on. The group discussions and conversations between Dr. Adler and journalist Bill Moyers were filmed for broadcast on public television, and thousands of people followed their exploration of these important ideas. Discarding the out-worn and off-putting jargon of academia, Dr. Adler dispels the myth that philosophy is the exclusive province of the specialist. He argues that "philosophy is everybody's business," and that a better understanding of these fundamental concepts is essential if we are to cope with the political, moral, and social issues that confront us daily.

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1439104921

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Aristotle for Everybody

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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Aristotle for Everybody

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common sense" of Aristotelian logic, presenting Aristotle's understandings in a current, delightfully lucid way. Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common sense" of Aristotelian logic, presenting Aristotle's understandings in a current, delightfully lucid way. He brings Aristotle's work to an everyday level. By encouraging readers to think philosophically, Adler offers us a unique path to personal insights and understanding of intangibles, such as the difference between wants and needs, the proper way to pursue happiness, and the right plan for a good life.

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1439104913

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How to Think about the Great Ideas

From the Great Books of Western Civilization(Volume 2 Of 2 )

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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How to Think about the Great Ideas

From the Great Books of Western Civilization(Volume 2 Of 2 )

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a philosopher for everyman. In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as What is love?, How do we decide the right thing to do?, and, What does it mean to be good? Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, history, and philosophy, the author considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in light of more than two millennia of Western civilization and discourse. Adler's essays offer a remarkable and contemplative distillation of the Great Ideas of Western Thought.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458720063

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9781458720061

Adler's Philosophical Dictionary

125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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Adler's Philosophical Dictionary

125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Stimulating, engaging, and organized in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, Adler's Philosophical Dictionary is an ideal introduction to the history of the great ideas. The terms and concepts that have simulated thinkers from Aristotle onward come to life in the latest work by the man TIME magazine has called "America's philosopher for everyman." Is the human soul immortal? What does it mean to know something? What is the nature of erotic love? Adler examines these questions as well as many others with his trademark clarity, rigor, and common sense.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439105669

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9781439105665

Paideia Program

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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Paideia Program

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece. The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible.

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1451602200

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9781451602203

Paideia Proposal

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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Paideia Proposal

By: Mortimer J. Adler

The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of basic human rights fell short of 20th century expectations. The Paidea Proposal was based upon the following assumptions: 1) All children are educable; 2) Education is never completed in school or higher institutions of learning, but is a lifelong process of maturity for all citizens; 3) The primary cause of learning is the activity of the child's mind, which is not created by, but only assisted by the teacher; 4) Multiple types learning and teaching must be utilized in education, not just teacher lecturing, or telling; and 5) A student's preparation for earning a living is not the primary objective of schooling. Adler stressed that the proposal is much more than just a return to the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic. It is not simply a return to the values of classical civilization, but a return to what is of enduring value. It is a democratic proposal intended for the education of all, and not an elitist program as some have alleged.

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1439104905

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World Civilizations: Volume I: To 1700

By: Philip J. Adler,Randall L. Pouwels

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World Civilizations: Volume I: To 1700

By: Philip J. Adler,Randall L. Pouwels

For an accessible, comprehensive global survey of the world's major civilizations, Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS offers a great balance between detail and brevity. This unique student-oriented text offers 53 short chapters accompanied by strong pedagogy and critical thinking tools, giving instructors the flexibility to assign a wide range of major topics in world history in a variety of different ways, while making learning more manageable for students. The focused treatment of topics throughout history covers every major epoch and follows broad patterns and processes, while illuminating history through specific examples and a particular emphasis on social and cultural topics. Among other updates, the eighth edition includes new content that illustrates how the world has become increasingly interdependent, gives more attention to the non-Western world and its peoples, and provides sharper focus on the importance of women in history. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Cengage Learning

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1305959906

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9781305959903

How to Speak How to Listen

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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How to Speak How to Listen

By: Mortimer J. Adler

From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide for learning how to speak and listen more effectively. With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book. In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.

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1439104891

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How to Read a Book

By: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren

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How to Read a Book

By: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done.” –Farheed Zakaria Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.

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1439144834

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How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

By: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren

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How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

By: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren

Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.

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1476790159

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World Civilizations: Volume II: Since 1500

By: Philip J. Adler,Randall L. Pouwels

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World Civilizations: Volume II: Since 1500

By: Philip J. Adler,Randall L. Pouwels

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World Civilizations

By: Philip J. Adler,Randall L. Pouwels

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World Civilizations

By: Philip J. Adler,Randall L. Pouwels

For an accessible, comprehensive global survey of the world's major civilizations, Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS offers a great balance between detail and brevity. This unique student-oriented text offers 53 short chapters accompanied by strong pedagogy and critical thinking tools, giving instructors the flexibility to assign a wide range of major topics in world history in a variety of different ways, while making learning more manageable for students. The focused treatment of topics throughout history covers every major epoch and follows broad patterns and processes, while illuminating history through specific examples and a particular emphasis on social and cultural topics. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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1285442571

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The Capitalist Manifesto

By: Louis O. Kelso,Mortimer J. Adler

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The Capitalist Manifesto

By: Louis O. Kelso,Mortimer J. Adler

In 1956, a U.S. lawyer-economist, Louis O. Kelso, created the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to enable the employees of a closely held newspaper chain to buy out its retiring owners. Two years later, Kelso and his co-author, the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, explained the macro-economic theory on which the ESOP is based in this best-selling book, The Capitalist Manifesto. “When you read this book, you must be prepared for a shock—particularly if you are among the millions of Americans who feel complacent about the material well-being that now prevails in this country. THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO will compel you to examine, reconsider and question many dangerous economic factors and political tendencies you have accepted as inevitable—and will show you how you can do something about them. “THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO sets the alarm for all American citizens—not simply one group or class. It is for stockholders, workers, labor leaders, corporation executives, investment bankers, taxpayers, small businessmen and industrialists, statesmen, legislators, judges and educators. Its purpose is to arouse us to the real and present dangers we now face, from inflation and from the progressive socialization of our economy. What is the difference between a well-heeled existence in a welfare state and the good life in a free society? THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO will tell you what that difference is, and why you must be a man of property in order to be a free man. It will explain the meaning of your ever-expanding opportunities for leisure. It will tell you that the goal of an industrial society should not be full employment in the production of wealth, but full enjoyment of the wealth produced. It will tell you how you, as an individual, can best use wealth to further the happiness and well-being of yourself and your fellow men.” “A revolutionary force in human affairs offering still unplumbed promise for the future....”—Time Magazine

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787203514

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9781787203518

Truth in Religion

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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Truth in Religion

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Continuing his exploration of the philosophical questions and doubts plaguing civilization today, Dr. Mortimer J. Adler explores where the truth lies in religion and the effects of diversity among religions. Truth in Religion is the product of Dr. Mortimer J. Adler’s search for a resolution to the age-old conflict between logic and faith. Aiming to discover where the truth lies among the plurality of the world’s organized religion, Dr. Adler explores the philosophy of religion and its true meanings among civilization as dictated by the principle of the unity of truth.

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Simon and Schuster

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0020641400

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9780020641407

The Geometry of Random Fields

By: Robert J. Adler

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The Geometry of Random Fields

By: Robert J. Adler

An important treatment of the geometric properties of sets generated by random fields, including a comprehensive treatment of the mathematical basics of random fields in general. It is a standard reference for all researchers with an interest in random fields, whether they be theoreticians or come from applied areas.

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SIAM

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0898716934

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9780898716931

Angels and Us

By: Mortimer J. Adler

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Angels and Us

By: Mortimer J. Adler

A wonderfully enlightening work on the affinities between angels and human beings. Mortimer Adler has always been ahead of his time. In 1982, before the current revival of interest in angels, Dr. Adler published "The Angels and Us," an engaging look at the various images and hierarchies of angels (including guardian angels). Dr. Adler, the bestselling author of "Ten Philosophical Mistakes," "Aristotle for Everybody," and "The Great Ideas," speculates on the existence of angels; why Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in angels, and the ways angels have been viewed as objects of religious belief and philosophical thought. This is a wonderfully enlightening work on the affinities between angels and human beings.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439105782

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9781439105788

White House Mockingbird

By: Richard J. Adler

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White House Mockingbird

By: Richard J. Adler

White House Mockingbird is an illustrated story about Dick the mockingbird who really did live in the White House during President Jefferson's time in office. The president kept Dick?s cage in a special place in his study. Whenever he had free time, Jefferson and Dick were always side by side. Dick's life changes forever while still a fledgling after he falls out of his nest in the Virginia countryside. Rescued by President Jefferson?s grandchildren, they send him to live with the president in Washington, D.C., because ?it?s so lonely living in the White House.? Dick embarks on a harrowing four-day journey over bumpy dirt roads in a horse-drawn wagon before he reaches the capitol. The mockingbird arrives at the White House to spend six exciting years as a confidant to the president. He is an eyewitness to history in the newly constructed White House and the events that happen during the Jefferson presidency in the early 1800's.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1946539333

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9781946539335

General Relativity and Cosmology

A First Encounter

By: Ronald J. Adler

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General Relativity and Cosmology

A First Encounter

By: Ronald J. Adler

Gravitational physics has now become a mainstream topic in physics and physics teaching. In particular cosmology and gravitational wave physics are at the focus of a great deal of current research. Thus it is important to introduce students to General Relativity as soon as reasonable. This textbook offers a brief but comprehensive treatment accessible to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and any physicist or mathematician interested in understanding the material in a short time. The author, an experienced teacher of the subject, has included numerous examples and exercises to help students consolidate the ideas they have learned. Solutions to the exercises are provided as supplementary material in the online chapters.

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Springer Nature

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303061574X

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9783030615741

Women in Management Worldwide

By: Nancy J. Adler,Dafna N. Izraeli

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Women in Management Worldwide

By: Nancy J. Adler,Dafna N. Izraeli

This collection of studies examines the role of women managers in the United States, Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Indonesia, Japan, Israel, South Africa and the Pacific Basin. The contributors take a critical look at cross-cultural differences and similarities in the role of women in management, and also examines reasons for the paucity of women in this sphere: cultural sanctions, educational barriers, legal restrictions, and corporate obstacles. ISBN 0-87332-417-X: $29.50.

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Routledge

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0873325702

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9780873325707

Night and the Cat

By: Alan J. Adler

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Night and the Cat

By: Alan J. Adler

NOIR REBORN! Los Angeles, 1945. Meet Charlie Dawson-an ex-con with a single goal-break with the past or die. Charlie Dawson spent World War II behind bars. Now he's back to face old friends and demons-Arthur Main, father figure and cold-blooded killer, Teresa Cruz, Charlie's ex-lover, now Main's personal property, and Sarah, a wounded mountain lion with a taste for revenge. Night and the Cat takes you from the old Hollywood jungle, its kings and fringe-dwellers, to the towering Sierras on one man's quest for redemption in the hands of nature.

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iUniverse

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0595901190

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9780595901197

Web-based Survey Techniques

By: Gregory Spitz,Frances L. Niles,Thomas J. Adler,Transit Cooperative Research Program

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Web-based Survey Techniques

By: Gregory Spitz,Frances L. Niles,Thomas J. Adler,Transit Cooperative Research Program

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 69: Web-Based Survey Techniques explores the current state of the practice for web-based surveys. The report examines successful practice, reviews the technologies necessary to conduct web-based surveys, and includes several case studies and profiles of transit agency use of web-based surveys. The report also focuses on the strengths and limitations of all survey methods"--Publisher's description

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Transportation Research Board

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0309097789

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