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Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War IIThis book uncovers a holistic sensibility in post-World War II American culture that challenged Cold War logic and fed some of the century's most powerful social movements. This impulse is illustrated by focusing on Rachel Carson, Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King...

We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. And in acting intentionally we all take certain things to be good reason to believe or do certain things. In this book Barry Stroud argues that...

A Bag of TricksStudents in the sciences, economics, psychology, social sciences, and medicine        take introductory statistics. Statistics is increasingly offered at the high school        level as well....

The Transformation of America, 1815-1848In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, critically acclaimed history, Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. Howe's...

What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the        natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The        Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system        incorporating both the mental and the physical....