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  • Essays on Life, Art and Science (Cram Edition)
    R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild / Samuel Butler
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Essays on Life, Art and Science pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the vibrant mind of Samuel Butler in 'Essays on Life, Art and Science,' a collection of thought-provoking pieces spanning art criticism, scientific inquiry, and astute cultural observat...
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    23,10 €

  • Life and Habit (Cram Edition)
    R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild / Samuel Butler
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Life and Habit pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Dive into Samuel Butler’s thought-provoking exploration of 'Life and Habit,' a cornerstone of philosophical and biological thought. This seminal work delves into the intricate relationship between habit, heredi...
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    26,16 €

  • Principles of Forest Entomology
    Samuel Alexander Graham
    'Principles of Forest Entomology' is a foundational scientific text that explores the complex relationship between insect populations and forest ecosystems. Written by Samuel Alexander Graham, this comprehensive work serves as a primary guide to the ecological principles governing insect life in forested environments and the practical methods used to protect timber resources fr...
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    27,91 €

  • SMPLE-KOIN
    Samuel Alexander
    SMPLE-KOIN is a hypothetical cryptocurrency inspired by Buddhism. It will be introduced in this essay as a spiritual ’thought experiment’ with economic implications, one designed to facilitate a real-world revaluation of how important material and financial wealth is to human prosperity. The goal is to solve critical ’coordination problems’ in game theory, and thereby facilitat...
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    8,96 €

  • Homo Aestheticus
    Samuel Alexander
    This collection of philosophical fragments presents an aesthetics of existence called the ’Will to Art’. Readers are invited to consider the possibility that the universe is fundamentally an aesthetic phenomenon, understood as a process of creative evolution that is moving, albeit agonistically, towards ever-increasing opportunities for artistic expression and aesthetic experie...
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    18,86 €

  • The Hunt Pack
    Samuel Alexander White
    Venture into the untamed Yukon River Valley with Samuel Alexander White’s 'The Hunt Pack,' a gripping tale of frontier life and survival in the Alaskan wilderness. This classic work of historical fiction captures the spirit of adventure that defined the era of pioneer settlement.Experience the challenges and triumphs of those who dared to carve out a life in the rugged terrain....
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    15,58 €

  • The Stampeder
    Samuel Alexander White
    The Stampeder, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of ...
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    17,79 €

  • Space, Time, and Deity The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 Volume 1 of 2
    Samuel Alexander
    A. A Formula for Space-Time; Time as the mind of Space; Grounds of this formula. The relation of point-instants to one another; Complexities of detail; Mind a form of Time, not Time a form of mind; B. The Order of Qualities; Qualities as emergents; Time as the generator of qualities; Space-Time anterior to material things. Misconceptions superseded; Matter; Secondary qualities....
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    29,03 €

  • Spinoza and Time
    Samuel Alexander
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    9,43 €

  • S M P L C T Y
    Samuel Alexander
    This collection of essays presents an aesthetics of existence called the ’Will to Art’. Readers will be invited to consider the possibility that the universe is fundamentally an aesthetic phenomenon, understood as a process of creative evolution that is moving, albeit agonistically, towards ever-increasing opportunities for artistic expression and aesthetic experience. Art is d...
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    33,96 €

  • Pennsylvania Dutch
    Alexander Ellis / Samuel Stehman Haldeman
    Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped ...
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    21,57 €

  • Die Meditationen von Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)
    Marcus Aurelius / Samuel Cartaxo / Alexander K. W.
    Die zeitlose Weisheit der 'Meditationen' von Marcus Aurelius Es ist unglaublich, wie diese Lehren Jahrhunderte und Jahrhunderte überdauern können und dennoch von immenser Relevanz für unser Leben heute sind!Entdecke innere GelassenheitSuchst du nach einer neuen Leseerfahrung, die dir helfen kann, deine Sichtweise auf das Leben zu formen? 'Meditationen: Eine neue Perspektive' bi...
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    23,58 €

  • The Law of the North; A Story of Love and Battle in Rupert’s Land
    Samuel Alexander White
    The Law of the North; A Story of Love and Battle in Rupert’s Land, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. This book is not made of sc...
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    16,54 €

  • Johnson on Shakespeare
    Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson / Walter Alexander Sir 1861-... Raleigh
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    27,65 €

  • Beyond Capitalist Realism
    Samuel Alexander
    ’Capitalist realism’ implies that, ever since the fall of Soviet communism in 1989, capitalism has been the only realistic system of production and distribution. Everything else is generally dismissed as ’utopianism’ or just naïve dreaming. This perspective points to a worrying failure of imagination, suggesting that it is now easier to imagine the end of the world than the end...
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    15,43 €

  • Urban Awakenings
    Brendan Gleeson / Samuel Alexander
    This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne. It is based on the idea that ’enchantment’ as an affective state is important to ethical and political engagement. Alexander and Gleeson argue that a sense of enchantment can give people the impulse to care and engage in an increasingly troubled world, whereas disenchantment can lead ...
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    59,72 €

  • Space, Time, And Deity
    Samuel Alexander
    A foundational probe into being, causality and the cosmos.Ideas that still unsettle minds.Delivered as part of the early twentieth century lectures at Glasgow during 1916-1918, Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time, and Deity maps the nature of space and time with philosophical patience and occasional lyrical sweep. A philosophy of religion book in the fullest sense, it blends metaphy...
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    28,06 €

  • Spinoza And Time
    Samuel Alexander
    An urgent, lucid study of Spinoza’s thought and the problem of temporality. It reframes time as idea. Samuel Alexander brings philosophical clarity to the nature of time, tracing how Baruch Spinoza’s metaphysics intersects with ethics and reason and probing consequences for rationalism and metaphysics more broadly.Written with crisp lucidity and close argumentation, Alexander m...
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    17,40 €

  • Death for Gaia
    Peter Burdon / Samuel Alexander
    'Death for Gaia' is a philosophical story about a group of scientists who create and release a biological weapon they call ‘Hemlock-42’. This virus is designed with a single goal in mind: to eradicate most of humanity as a means of preserving what remains of planetary ecosystems and the declining diversity of species. Less than ten percent of humanity survives the pandemic. For...
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    13,86 €

  • This Civilisation is Finished
    Rupert Read / Samuel Alexander
    Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological c...
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    14,70 €

  • Degrowth in the Suburbs
    Brendan Gleeson / Samuel Alexander
    This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.  The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is the only feasible principle for suburban renewal. They depart from the anti-suburban sentiment of much environmental...
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    33,40 €

  • Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future
    Joshua Floyd / Samuel Alexander
    Carbon civilisation is powered predominately by finite fossil fuels and with each passing day it becomes harder to increase or even maintain current supply. Our one-off fossil energy inheritance is but a brief anomaly in the evolution of the human story, a momentary energy spike from the perspective of deep time. Today humanity faces the dual crises of fossil fuel depletion and...
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    16,86 €

  • The Annual Monitor... or, Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland
    Samuel Tuke / Sarah Backhouse / William Alexander
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    20,73 €

  • Reminiscences and Table-talk of Samuel Rogers, Banker, Poet, & Patron of the Arts, 1763-1855;
    Alexander Dyce / Samuel Rogers / William Sharpe
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    23,82 €

  • Mites Against Millions
    Samuel Alexander Mutchmore
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    20,94 €

  • Wild Democracy
    Samuel Alexander
    'Wild Democracy is a daring and compelling collection of essays that explores the theory and practice of moving towards an equitable, post-growth society, and defends an alternative, post-consumerist account of human flourishing. Thoreau believed that 'in wildness lies the preservation of the world' and Samuel Alexander has shown us how we do this in our backyards, our local co...
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    22,02 €

  • Art Against Empire
    Samuel Alexander
    What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can 'culture jamming' contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this stimulating new book, 'Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth', degrowth scholar Samuel Al...
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    36,14 €

  • Compost Capitalism
    Samuel Alexander
    What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can 'culture jamming' contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this stimulating new book, 'Compost Capitalism: Art and Aesthetics at the End of Empire,' degrowth scholar Sa...
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    29,44 €

  • Just Enough is Plenty
    Samuel Alexander
    In our age of overconsumption, Henry Thoreau's fiery criticisms of consumer culture and his poetic defence of simpler living have never been more relevant or necessary. But Thoreau is not an easy writer to read. His sentences are often very dense and his ideas are often challenging and provocatively expressed. For these reasons the casual reader can be easily put off. But his p...
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    12,89 €

  • Deface the Currency
    Samuel Alexander
    'This is a creative re-enactment of the life, death and ideas of the most influential Cynic of antiquity, Diogenes of Sinope. Lost after 2500 years, the dialogues attributed to him are here recovered through informed historical re-imagination, and in a series of six 'acts' Samuel Alexander takes his protagonist from his marketplace teachings through to the final condemnation of...
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    13,29 €


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