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  • Against Identity

    The Wisdom of Escaping the Self

    by Alexander Douglas ...
    ‘Deeply interesting … a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession’ Steven Poole, Guardian'Engrossing … bracing … incendiary and timely’ Stuart Jeffries, Daily TelegraphA philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the selfModern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life ... Read more

    Was $22.39 USD Now $14.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Against Identity

    The Wisdom of Escaping the Self

    by Alexander Douglas ...
    Narrated by Alexander Douglas ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world – hoping it will bring us happiness. But this often leads to a complex game of envy and pride. We achieve these identities but want others to imitate us. We disagree with ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Perversities

    by Alexander Douglas ...
    An unemployed fisherman.A pissed-off planet.A prodigal son.A suburban siren.These are just some of the memorable characters you'll meet in Perversities, Alexander Douglas' first collection of short fiction. From flashes of dark brilliance to extended forays into new weird fiction, these stories run the gamut of genre, slipstreaming from horror to science fiction to romance to niches that haven't ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Hope

    Beatitude in Spinoza

    by Alexander Douglas ...
    Can philosophy be a source of hope? Today it is common to believe that the answer is no – that providing hope, if it is possible at all, belongs either to the predictive sciences or to religion.In this exciting and stimulating book, however, Alexander Douglas argues that the philosophy of Spinoza can offer something akin to religious hope. Douglas shows how Spinoza is able, without appealing to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Letters From Flanders Written By 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie, Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders

    by Lieutenant Alexander Douglas Gillespie ...
    The sight of the kilted Highland regiment has always struck such fear into their Germans opponents of both World Wars; known to their Teutonic foes as the "Ladies from Hell" for their attire and fighting prowess. The memories of those brave Celtic Warriors fighting across the mud of Flanders remains in the swirl of the bagpipe laments, faded pictures and memoirs from their ranks.The letters of two ... Read more

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  • Fumbling the Future

    How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

    by Robert C. Alexander, Douglas K. Smith ...
    Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borland. But no one will say Xerox. Fifteen years after it invented personal computing, Xerox still means "copy."Fumbling the Future tells how one of America ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice

    by Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Laban Hinton, Lawrence Douglas ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice is an authoritative guide to the rapidly growing domain of transitional justice-the practices and processes of reckoning pursued in the aftermath of historic injustice. Since the neologism's coining in the late 1990s, “transitional justice” has become one of the 21st century's most influential practices of international humanitarianism. However, ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Enceladus Station Fountains Screenplay

    Fountains

    by Douglas H Alexander ...
    Series Book 1 - Enceladus Station
    The Novel + The Stage Adaptation - A Complete Murder-Mystery PackageThis combined edition delivers the complete property in one package:The Novel - the full Enceladus Station: Fountains murder mystery, the launch of an ongoing series.The Stage Adaptation - a performance-ready script with a budget-theater set plan that stages all eighteen locations on as few as three sets.Com... ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • How to Measure Anything in Project Management

    by Douglas W. Hubbard, Alexander Budzier, Andreas Bang Leed ...
    Uncover common project management myths to improve project successHow to Measure Anything in Project Management explains why popular methods for measurement in project management are flawed and describes how to conduct measurements that better inform decisions, reduce project risks, and improve the chance of project success. The authors argue that anything that matters to project management at all ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism

    by Alexander X. Douglas ...
    Alexander X. Douglas offers a new understanding of Spinoza's philosophy by situating it in its immediate historical context. He defends a thesis about Spinoza's philosophical motivations and then bases an interpretation of his major works upon it. The thesis is that much of Spinoza's philosophy was conceived with the express purpose of rebutting a claim about the limitations of philosophy made by ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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    Let’s Face It

    90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning

    by Kirk Douglas ...
    Narrated by Jason Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    Kirk Douglas has been one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, a hard-charging actor whose intensity on the screen has been mirrored in his personal life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, Douglas contemplates what life is all about, weighing current events from his present frame of mind while summoning the passions of his younger days.Kirk Douglas is a born storyteller, and throughout Let's ... Read more

    $13.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets

    Malpractice, Misconduct and Manipulation

    Edited by Carol Alexander, Douglas Cumming ...
    Identifying malpractice and misconduct should be top priority for financial risk managers todayCorruption and Fraud in Financial Markets identifies potential issues surrounding all types of fraud, misconduct, price/volume manipulation and other forms of malpractice. Chapters cover detection, prevention and regulation of corruption and fraud within different financial markets. Written by experts at ... Read more

    $71.00 USD