Mortals and Others, Volume I

Mortals and Others, Volume I
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135861129

This collection of essays and journalism cover a wide range of topics, from balancing prosperity and public expenditure or the mental differences between boys and girls to 'who may use lipstick'. Mortal and Others shows the serious and non-serious side of Russell's personality and work. It provides a lively and revealing introduction to Russell's thought for all readers. First published in 1975, Mortals and Others is at last available in paperback with a new introduction by John Slater.

Mortals and Others Volume II

Mortals and Others Volume II
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780415178679

Presents a further selection of essays, ranging from the politically correct, to the perfectly obscure: from The Prospects of Democracy to Men Versus Insects.

Mortals and Others

Mortals and Others
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 1996
Genre: American newspapers
ISBN: 0415125855

A collection of essays and journalism covering a wide range of topics from balancing prosperity and public expenditure to the mental differences between boys and girls, revealing the humourous aspect of Russell's personality.

Mortals and Others, Volume I

Mortals and Others, Volume I
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135861196

This collection of essays and journalism cover a wide range of topics, from balancing prosperity and public expenditure or the mental differences between boys and girls to 'who may use lipstick'. Mortal and Others shows the serious and non-serious side of Russell's personality and work. It provides a lively and revealing introduction to Russell's thought for all readers. First published in 1975, Mortals and Others is at last available in paperback with a new introduction by John Slater.

Mortals and Others

Mortals and Others
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138131484

Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, humorous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, the rise of Nazism and Prohibition, to more perennial themes such as love, parenthood, education and friendship. Available for the first time in the Routledge Classics series in a single volume, this pithy, provocative and often-personal collection of essays brings together the very best of Russell's many contributions to the New York American, and proves just as engaging for today's readers as they were in the 1930s.

Rationality for Mortals

Rationality for Mortals
Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-04-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199890129

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational than it might otherwise appear. This work is extremely influential and has spawned an entire research program. This volume (which follows on a previous collection, Adaptive Thinking, also published by OUP) collects his most recent articles, looking at how people use "fast and frugal heuristics" to calculate probability and risk and make decisions. It includes a newly writen, substantial introduction, and the articles have been revised and updated where appropriate. This volume should appeal, like the earlier volumes, to a broad mixture of cognitive psychologists, philosophers, economists, and others who study decision making.

Mortals and Others, Volume II

Mortals and Others, Volume II
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317835433

'Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.' - Bertrand Russell From 1931-1935 Bertrand Russell was one of the regular contributors to the literary pages of the New York American, together with other distinguished authors, such as Aldous Huxley and Vita Sackville-West. Mortals and Others Volume II presents a further selection of his essays, ranging from the politically correct, to the perfectly obscure: from The Prospects of Democracy to Men Versus Insects. Even though written in the politically heated climate of the 1930s, these essays are surprisingly topical and engaging for the present day reader. Volume II of Mortals and Others serves as a splendid, fresh introduction to the compassionate eclecticism of Bertrand Russell's mind.

Handbook for Mortals

Handbook for Mortals
Author: Joanne Lynn, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2011-06-16
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199744564

Rev. ed. of: Handbook for mortals / Joanne Lynn, Joan Harrold, and the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, George Washington University. 1999.

Mortals and Immortals

Mortals and Immortals
Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1991-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691019314

Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."