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Sun house / by Duncan, David James,author.;
"A bolt from an Aero México DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a Mexican girl and throwing the faith of a young American Jesuit into crisis. Jamey van Zandt's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he only unlashes once a year when he recklessly duels the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman, Risa McKeig, runs through the streets of Seattle searching for a "shooting star moment" that will pierce her world with a love that will eventually help heal both the Jesuit and the angry actor. The sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious journeys of this "unintentional menagerie" carry them to the healing lands of Montana's Elkmoon Beguine & Cattle Company, where nothing tastes better than four fingers of Maker's Mark mixed with glacier ice, nothing sounds lovelier than a lone flycatcher's mating song, and nothing seems less likely than the delight a bunch of urban sophisticates, Montana cowboys, road-weary musicians, and spiritual refugees begin to find in each other's company"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Epic fiction.; Novels.; Anger; Conduct of life; Love; Meaning (Philosophy); Nature; Transcendence (Philosophy);
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The philosophy of modern song / by Dylan, Bob,1941-author.;
In his first book of new writing since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music through a series of essays that double as meditations and reflections on the human condition.
Subjects: Essays.; Popular music;
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The stars turned inside out : a novel / by Jacobs, Nova,author.;
"The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; European Organization for Nuclear Research; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Murder; Physicists; Secrecy; Women private investigators;
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The order of time / by Rovelli, Carlo,1956-author.; Segre, Erica,translator.; Carnell, Simon,1962-translator.; translation of:Rovelli, Carlo,1956-Ordine del tempo.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to 'flow'? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike"--
Subjects: Space and time.; Time.; Presentism (Philosophy); Cosmology.;
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The Way Out : A True Story of Survival in the Heart of the Rockies. by O'Neil, Devon.;
Three fathers and four teenage children together went for a bonding alpine getaway outside Salida, Colorado, in January 2017. But what was supposed to be an adventure quickly ended in tragedy. 'The Way Out' is the never-before-told story of life and death in the Colorado mountains - 30 hours that changed lives forever and forced a reckoning about the cost of adventure. A RADD Pick.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship; NATURE / Natural Disasters; PHILOSOPHY / Nature; PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss; SPORTS & RECREATION / Extreme Sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills; SPORTS & RECREATION / Winter Sports / Skiing; TRAVEL / United States / West / Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY);
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Wild wisdom : primal skills to survive in nature / by Dust, Donny,author.; Venables, Bob,illustrator.;
Survive anything nature throws your way with these survival tips and wilderness philosophy. A US Marine Corps veteran and owner of a premier survival and wilderness self-reliance school, Donny Dust amassed two decades worth of primitive-living skills everywhere from the jungles of Asia to the mountains of North America and is one of the country's foremost experts.
Subjects: Outdoor life.; Outdoor recreation.; Survival.; Wilderness survival.;
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Carbon : the book of life / by Hawken, Paul,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-229) and index.An exploration of carbon's vital role in sustaining life, revealing its profound connections to nature, humanity and the planet's history, while offering a hopeful perspective on embracing its potential to shape a sustainable future.
Subjects: Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Carbon; Carbon; Chemistry, Organic.; Climatic changes; Green movement;
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Capturing Kahanamoku : How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture. by Rossi, Michael.;
In the 1920's, Henry Fairfield Osborn, a fervent eugenicist and the director of the American Museum of Natural History went to Hawaii to learn how to surf. His teacher was Duke Kahanamoku, the famous surfer. Osborn became obsessed with Kahanamoku, physically perfect, yet belonging to an 'imperfect' race. What happened next changed how we think about race, culture, science, and humanity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports; HISTORY / Study & Teaching; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); NATURE / Regional; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Indigenous / General; SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Surfing;
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The invention of good and evil : a world history of morality / by Sauer, Hanno,author.; Heinrich, Jo,translator.; translation of:Sauer, Hanno.Moral.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? In the vein of Sapiens comes a grand history of our universal moral values at the moment of their greatest crisis. How did we learn to distinguish good from evil? Have we always been capable of doing so? And will we still be in the world to come? In this breathtaking book, ethics expert Hanno Sauer offers a great universal history of morality in the era of its darkest crisis. He finds that morality existed long before there was talk of God, religion, or philosophy. Its history is, first of all, the fruit of a process of natural selection, going back to the dawn of humanity, in the forests of East Africa which, five million years ago, thinned out owing to climate change. Among the early humans that came down from the trees, there were also our ancestors, who adapted to open spaces by organizing themselves into large groups. Under the pressure of environmental factors, morality emerges as the foundation for cooperation, a quality that is as precarious as it is essential to the survival of the species. Moving between paleontology and genetics, psychology and cognitive science, philosophy and evolutionism, Sauer traces a genealogy of morality and along the journey, marks the main moral transformations in the history of humanity. In the end, he concludes that millions of years of stratifications has led to the moral crisis of our present--and the only way to build a future together is to retrace our history."--
Subjects: Ethics;
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The laws of human nature / by Greene, Robert,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense"--
Subjects: Motivation (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-control.; Success.;
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