Nobody Calls Me Mr. Kirck

Rowland, Wade

Kirck, Harvey

Collins Toronto

How to Find Relief from Migraine

Explains the causes of migraine headaches, tells how to identify and avoid the conditions that bring on an attack, and describes alternate migraine therapies

Dudley, Rosemary

Health, Fitness & Dieting

BANTAM BOOKS

Making Connections

Gage Pub

The plot to save the world;: The life and times of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment

Clarke, Irwin

Explains the causes of migraine headaches, tells how to identify and avoid the conditions that bring on an attack, and describes alternate migraine therapies

Medical Books

Beaufort Books

Why is television so awful? Why do drug companies hide unfavourable test results? Why do automakers market unsafe cars? Why is our environment poisoning us? Why is our food so unhealthy? Why are we working sixty-hour weeks? Greed, Inc. places the blame for much of what ails contemporary society at the doorstep of a single institution - the modern publicly traded business corporation. We have become an uncaring society because the corporate ethos that informs virtually everything in our culture is uniquely and implacably selfish. The corporation exists for one purpose only: to make a profit. And such an objective trumps all others. Nothing else matters. This book traces the rise of the corporation from the Rationalist social engineering of the 18th century -- as well as the parallel triumph of moral relativism, consumerism, enterprise culture, and other dominant value systems of our time. It shows how a series of psychological and philosophical misconceptions institutionalized greed and self-serving behaviour as a good thing for society. Indeed the origins of corporate culture seem in retrospect so preposterous as to defy belief -- and yet these misconceived values now dominate our lives. Because of these notions of selfishness, we have arrived at a time when we seem at odds with almost everything around us. Greed, Inc. is a groundbreaking book in that it reveals the roots of this social discontent for the first time through the lens of moral philosophy. Anybody who cares about our quality of life and the very survival of humanity will need to read this book.

Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen

Business & Money

Biography & History

Thomas Allen Publishers

Spirit of the Web: The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet

History

Thomas Allen Pub

A road trip in France can be many things. This one involves a pair of precocious teenagers, a meditative author intent on imprinting some of the worthier aspects of French civilization on their still-malleable minds, and his indulgent, level-headed wife. Seizing an unexpected opportunity to combine family travel with some studious research into medieval France, the writer and his family embark from Paris on a route that takes them through Versailles, Tours, Chartres, Lyon, Carcasonne, Toulouse, Avignon, Dijon and points between.  Along the way they immerse themselves in France's rich medieval heritage, finally exploring the magnificent mountain-top ruins of the mysterious and romantic religious sect known as the Cathars, in the country’s extreme south. From cheese and charcuterie to landmark hotels to Michelin-starred restaurants; from Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas to Descartes and Magritte, Rowland blends the adventurous family's travel experiences with an astute and fascinating examination of some of our deepest assumptions about the nature of reality and our relationship to the world.  Rolling along back roads in their trusty rented Peugeot; in crusader castles and feudal dungeons; in bistros and supermarchés; in a borrowed country farmhouse, in a luxurious cave-dwelling in Vouvray, family discussions turn to the world view of medieval Europe, a system of thought and perception radically different from our own. Suspecting that the Enlightenment and Reformation tossed out the baby of moral certainty with the bathwater of hypocrisy and superstition, Rowland argues that modern values, derived from fundamentalist science and rationalism, have reduced human beings to alienated objects—human resources, or worse, human capital.  Reviewers have compared Ockham's Razor to both Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence and Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It is in fact a unique blending of philosophical speculation with an engaging and often humorous travel narrative that is both authentic and highly imaginative. Its head may be in the clouds both literally and figuratively, but its feet are planted firmly in everyday realities of the modern world and its challenges from family dynamics to global meltdown.

Ockham's Razor: A Season in France in Search of Meaning

Travel

Europe

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A search for human values and meaning at the millennium, Ockham`s Razor is a brilliant travel narrative that mixes philosophical speculation with commentary about the food, architecture and art of France. From Plato, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to Descartes, Magritte and the Internet, Wade Rowland examines some of our deepest assumptions about the nature of reality and our relationship to the world. In the summer of 1997, Rowland, an expert on technology and the new media, and in many respects disillusioned with the hyper-reality of North American culture, took his family to visit medieval historical sites throughout Southern France as a way of searching for authenticity. In Ockham`s Razor he speculates on the world view of the middle ages, a highly evolved system of thought and perception radically different from our own, and argues that efficiency is an engineering goal that reduces human beings to material objects. Such debasement causes human alienation, which is the defining condition of our age. This is very much a book for our age. (1999)

Ockham's razor: The search for wonder in an age of doubt

Key Porter Books,Canada

Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church

A provocative examination of the 1633 trial of Galileo by the Inquisition contends that the Galileo incited the opinions of his prosecutors by arguing against spirituality and that the disagreement was more about the nature of truth than about religious differences. 15,000 first printing.

Galileo's Mistake: A New Look At the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church

Arcade Publishing

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