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Impromptus
By André Comte-Sponville. 1996
Comment ne pas se rendre malheureux pour rien ((GF ; 12).)
By Arthur Schopenhauer, Jérôme Ferrari, Auguste Burdeau, Jean-Alexandre Cantacuzène. 2015
" Un recueil de textes du philosophe allemand extraits de Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation et de Aphorismes…
sur la sagesse dans la vie. Il y invite à cesser de courir après le bonheur qui est une chimère. Il explique que seuls le renoncement et le lâcher prise peuvent conduire à la véritable sagesse. "Cosmos: une ontologie matérialiste ((rève encyclopédie du monde ; 1).)
By Michel Onfray. 2015
" Qu'est-ce qui réunit la mort d'un père sous un ciel sans étoiles, un jardin d'enfance, l'enfouissement d'un spéléologue, les…
fragrances d'un champagne de 1921, le hérisson des tziganes, la coquille d'un mollusque, l'anguille des Sargasses, un ver parasite, le vin biodynamique, la poésie des peuples sans écriture, un masque africain, des haricots sauteurs, des acacias qui communiquent, un philosophe zoophile, des végétariens exploiteurs de poules, des porcs en batterie, des toréadors habillés en femmes, un curé athée, un matérialiste mort d'une indigestion de pâté de faisan, une peinture pariétale, un alignement de pierres, une fête du soleil indienne, une église catholique, les anges et les comètes, les trous noirs, un haïku, une toile d'Arcimboldo, le Land Art, la musique répétitive, entre autres fragments d'une Brève encyclopédie du monde ? Le cosmos. Cet ouvrage, dont Michel Onfray écrit qu'il est son premier livre , propose une philosophie personnelle de la nature. Contempler le monde, comprendre ses mystères et les leçons qu'il nous livre, ressaisir les intuitions fondatrices du temps, de la vie, de la nature, telle est l'ambition de Cosmos, qui renoue avec l'idéal païen d'une sagesse humaine en harmonie avec le monde. " -- 4e de couv.De quoi demain: dialogue
By Jacques Derrida, Élisabeth Roudinesco. 2001
« De quoi demain sera-t-il fait ? » interroge Victor Hugo. Un philosophe, une historienne répondent au long d'un dialogue…
serré, exigeant. Pourquoi ont-ils choisi de Rire ce livre ensemble ? En raison d'une longue amitié, au nom d'une histoire commune, en vertu de la qualité d'un débat qui n'a jamais cessé entre eux depuis qu'à la fin des années soixante la jeune étudiante découvrit l'importance de ce penseur de quinze ans son aîné qui, avec d'autres, réveillait l'esprit critique de toute une génération. Si les points de vue sont différents, l'héritage intellectuel est commun. Et c'est cet héritage qu'ils s'attachent à inventorier avant de circonscrire des enjeux majeurs de notre temps comment penser la différence dans l'universel ? La famille a-t-elle encore un avenir ? La liberté se réduira-t-elle demain pour l'homme à l'intelligibilité des contraintes qui pèsent sur lui, ou le désir et l'imprévisible auront-ils encore leur place ? Que nous dit la souffrance des animaux que nous massacrons ? La page de la révolution est-elle définitivement tournée après l'échec du communisme ? Est-il envisageable d'en finir une fois pour toutes avec la peine de mort ? Quelles seront demain les formes nouvelles de l'antisémitisme et comment les combattre ? L'échange s'achève sur un éloge de la psychanalyse, référence commune tout au long du dialogue.Guide des égarés
By Jean D' Ormesson. 2016
Nous ne savons ni pourquoi nous sommes nés ni ce que nous devenons après la mort. Nous sommes tous des…
égarés. C'est à la question : Qu'est-ce que je fais là ? que s'efforce de répondre ce manuel de poche qui n'a pas d'autre ambition que de décrire avec audace, avec naïveté, avec gaieté ce monde peu vraisemblable où nous avons été jetés malgré nous et de fournir vaille que vaille quelques brèves indications sur les moyens d'en tirer à la fois un peu de plaisir et, s'il se peut, de hauteur. 2016.From the Gita to the grail: exploring yoga stories and western myths
By Bernie Clark. 2014
Compares the myths of yoga to stories that have influenced Western culture, and explores how these spiritual stories can work…
at an unconscious level to provide road maps for navigating through modern life. 2014. A note on mythology -- An introduction to myths, maps and models -- The cosmological function: The creation of all things (creation myths) -- The magic of myth -- The sociological function: Living in accord with our neighbors -- The great cycles -- Varna, Dharma and Karma -- Boundaries -- The pyschological function: The arc of aging -- The goals of life -- The soul question -- Matter vs spirit -- The individual in society -- Myths for women -- Myths of love -- The mystical function: The horror of life -- Three characteristics of life -- Three attitudes towards life -- Aum in four syllables -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Tantra yoga (Tantric) -- Guru yoga -- Living with the mystical -- Transcending boundaries: going beyond your map.Back to the red road: a story of survival, redemption and love
By Florence Kaefer, Edward Gamblin. 2014
In 1954, at the age of nineteen, Florence Kaefer accepted a job as a teacher at Norway House. In 1967,…
Norway House Indian Residential School of Manitoba closed its doors after a questionable past. Many years later, Florence unexpectedly reconnected with one of her Norway House students, Edward Gamblin. He told her of the abuse he had suffered at the residential school and how the government had erased his cultural identity. This is the story of their personal reconciliation. c2014.Environmentalists from our First Nations (A First Nations book for young readers #5)
By Vincent Schilling. 2011
Ten biographies of First Nations/Native activists who advocate not only for the environment but for Native rights. Their stories are…
full of highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. Environmental trailblazers, these men and women are role models for children everywhere. Grades 4-7. 2011. (First Nations Series for Young Readers)American notes (Everyman's library ; #290)
By Charles Dickens. 2000
To the nineteenth-century Englishman, America was not unlike Russia or China or Cuba today - a new society, founded on…
new and revolutionary principles. Charles Dickens was only one of the more famous of those Englishmen who crossed the Atlantic to see democracy in action. He chronicles his five-month trip around the United States in 1842 and records his adventures as well as his impressions of American schools, prisons and slavery. 2000.Kayaking the full moon: a journey down the Yellowstone River to the soul of Montana
By Steve Chapple. 1993
Chapple, fed up with life in San Francisco, decided to return to his roots in Montana. In August, 1991, he,…
his wife, and their two sons began their adventure. They travelled the 671 miles of the Yellowstone and found two Montanas -- the old, where natives teach youth to appreciate their heritage, and the new, where people have summer homes and appear unconcerned for the environment. 1993.Journey on the Crest: walking 2,600 miles from Mexico to Canada
By Cindy Ross. 1987
Joseph Brant (The Canadians)
By Auldham Roy Petrie. 1978
Joseph Brant followed his father as an Iroquois chief, and, like his father, swore loyalty to the British in North…
America and was received by British royalty in London. Petrie chronicles the life of Brant, from his childhood and youth, to his first battles as an Iroquois warrior and his crucial aid to the British during the American War of Independence. Grades 5-8. 1978.Janus: a summing up
By Arthur Koestler. 1978
In this book, named after the Roman god who faced two ways, the author sums up his work over the…
past twenty-five years and indicates its continuity since he turned from politics to the sciences of life. He shows us man as a dual-faceted unique individual, who is yet part of a social group. Order comes when these two are in balance. The difference between this post-atomic world and the preceding centuries is our ability to cause death, not just individually but as a species. 1978.Jackson Hole
By Frank Calkins. 1973
An earthy, personal, affectionate portrayal of the beautiful town in the mountains of Wyoming. Interspersed with fact, reminiscences, yarns, speculations,…
and contemporary observations, it recaptures the days when the hole was an outlaw retreat. 1973.Introduction to metaphysics
By Martin Heidegger, Gregory Fried, Richard F H Polt. 2000
Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" is one of the most important works written by this figure of twentieth-century philosophy. The new…
translation aims to make this work more accessible including provision of conventional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally. 2000. Uniform title: Einfuhrung in die Metaphysik.Inside out: the autobiography of a Native Canadian
By James Tyman. 1989
James Tyman is a young Native man who grew up with racism, turned to crime and drugs, and repeatedly ended…
up in jail. At age 24, while serving a 2 year prison sentence, James wrote this record of his own journey to self-discovery. Strong language. 1989.I'll sing 'til the day I die: conversations with Tyendinaga elders
By Beth Brant. 1995
A hundred years of Native North American history emerges from the lives of fifteen Elders of Tyendinaga, in conversation with…
Mohawk writer Beth Brant. School teachers, domestic workers, miners, civil servants and factory workers people these accounts with the grist and joy of everyday lives spanning the 20th century. c1995.Imperial city: the rise and fall of New York
By Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1988
The author has been visiting this city of contradictions for years and beginning with "the most sensational city walk in…
the world" - crossing the Brooklyn Bridge - he illuminates the past and present of Manhattan and writes about life in the lesser known boroughs of New York: Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. It is a city of superlatives, both high and low, a place of infinite variety, powerful urges, insatiable energy and boundless appetite. 1988.I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away
By Bill Bryson. 1999
I am right - you are wrong: from this to the new Renaissance: from rock logic to water logic
By Edward De Bono. 1990
In this major new perspective Edward de Bono, the classic lateral thinker, argues that traditional Western logic is rigid, stagnant…
and misled. He calls for a New Renaissance, in which the creative perception of the human mind is allowed to shape a new future. 1990.