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A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans’ two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and how we can rebalance them to improve our...

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Robert Rank develops his unique perspective for understanding this puzzle.

From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution. Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's most significant punk band.” Since its inception in Los Angeles...

First proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer's extraordinarily prescient metaphysics - if understood along the lines thoroughly elucidated and substantiated in this volume - offer powerful answers not only to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, but also to modern philosophical dilemmas such as the hard problem of consciousness - which plagues mainstream physicalism - and the subject combination problem - which plagues constitutive panpsychism 

The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, journalist Hooman Majd is uniquely qualified to explain contemporary Iran's complex and misunderstood culture to Western listeners. The Ayatollah Begs to Differ provides an intimate look at a paradoxical country that is both deeply religious and highly cosmopolitan, authoritarian yet informed by a history of democratic and reformist traditions.

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world. It is taken for...

Paradoxes est une baladodiffusion bilingue (français/anglais) qui discute d'enjeux de santé et de la place de la culture dans la société. C'est aussi un espace où vous pourrez entendre des musiques moins diffusées mais non moins intéressantes.Paradoxes is a bilingual podcast (French and English) with discussions around health issues and also about the place of culture in our society. It is also a space where you will be able to hear seldomly broadcasted but probably more stimulating music.

In The Paradox of Progress, Dr. Michael M. Karch delves into the ethical complexities of AI’s rapid evolution. Drawing from a career spanning three decades in robotics, orthopedic surgery, and international disaster response, Dr. Karch investigates AI’s far-reaching impact and initiates critical discussion about its duality. This is a compelling exploration through historical precedents of progress and AI’s challenges today, including fears of data bias, deep fakes, technological hegemony, and job displacement.

We live in a world of outrageous pain. Postmodernity—with its correct critique of pre-modernity's often fundamentalist and dogmatic stories about value—has deconstructed value and said value is not real. At the same time, regressive religious fundamentalism is on the rise all through the world. Fundamentalism, like post-modernism, says there is no universal Field of Value. Instead, it claims that value is mediated only through its particular prism of revelation. Outrageous pain is caused when we fail to recognize that we are all in a shared Field of Value.

Are we free to do whatever we want? This idea challenges us throughout our daily lives, from how to tackle pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates to how to respond to technological innovations and climate change warnings. In The Liberty Paradox, David Kinley argues that we must rehabilitate the notion of liberty by rescuing it from the myopic demands of freedom without limit and reinstating the essential ingredient of social responsibility.

يحاول آري دبليو. كروجلانسكي الإجابة عن هذه الأسئلة وغيرها، موضحًا أن عدم اليقين من القضايا الأساسية التي تميز بها عصرنا، فالاستقرار الذي كنا ننعم به ذات يوم يختفي بسرعة هائلة، فهناك تغيرات كبيرة في المجتمع تحول واقعنا: أعداد غفيرة من المهاجرين واللاجئين تهز الأسس الديموغرافية والثقافية والدينية للأمم، كما أن تغيير المواقف والأساليب فيما يخص التوظيف، مع زيادة العمل الحر والمؤقت، يقوض قدرة الناس على التخطيط للمستقبل. وهناك أيضًا شعور متناقص باستمرار الثقة بما كان مبجلًا ذات يوم: مثل الحكومة، ووسائل الإعلام، والتعليم، والطب، ومع كل ذلك أصبح الإنترنت يزودنا بموجة من النصائح المتضاربة

In this new kind of introduction to ethical theory, Daniel Muñoz and Sarah Stroud present fifty of the field's most exciting puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Over the course of eleven chapters, the authors cover a huge variety of topics, starting with the classic debate between utilitarians and deontologists and ending on existential questions about the future of humanity.

After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations. Since 1979, Asia has endured threats, near-miss crises, and nuclear proliferation but no interstate war. How fragile is this “Asian peace,” and what is America’s role in it? Van Jackson argues that because Washington takes for granted that the United States is a force for good, successive presidencies have failed to see how their statecraft impedes more durable forms of security and inadvertently embrittles peace.

Life is full of ups and downs. It's also full of situations - paradoxes we call them. here is a look at 20 powerful paradoxes of life.

A sci-fi creative collaboration with Lov3 Books Etc and Ki Lov3 Books in their passion series "The Lov3 Paradox Project" EST 6/20/25

Unreal Reality: The Paradox of Existence is a lucid and unflinching exploration of reality, illusion, and the ethical demands of being. Blending philosophy, science, and reflective clarity, this book journeys through the shifting ground beneath perception, memory, identity, and knowledge. It challenges the need for certainty, confronts the limits of understanding, and insists that meaning can—and must—be forged even when truth remains out of reach.

Few people then or now know about the clandestine war that the CIA ran in Vietnam, using the Green Berets for secret operations throughout Southeast Asia. This was not the Vietnam War of the newsreels - the body counts, rice paddy footage, and men smoking cigarettes on the sandbag bunkers.

A weekly podcast where Monique & Colin will ask questions no one dares to ask - but everyone wants to know - and attempt to find answers. We'll discuss everything from life, modern-day philosophy, work, AI & the future on planet Earth to traditions, witchcraft, spirituality, and more - while looking at all of the questions from a paradoxical lense. We are excited to share these conversations with you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After 15 years, Tiffany and Larry have developed a relationship that is worthy of imitation. They started a podcast in the winter of 2022 to discuss any and all topics that relate to their relationship, communication, politics, religion, and the family dynamic that all couples deal with on the daily. Whether its the sometimes playful, sometimes not, banter between the two, we can assure you that their goal is to give you something to think about, laugh about, and hopefully entertain you along the way!

Say yes to living in paradox in a world that seems addicted to division. Join host Dr. Anna Karin and guests as together we engage timeless wisdom and cutting edge thinking to throw off the cultural narrative of either/or and move onto a common ground of both/and to live in greater harmony with ourselves, each other and nature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.