Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Good & Evil

Yi-Fu Tuan, one of the world's most honored scholars and the founder of humanist geography, has spent a lifetime exploring the relationship between the places and spaces that surround us and the inner self. In particular, his writings have focused on what it means to achieve human dignity within the varied communities we create.

Although we humans by nature may be flawed, as evidenced by war and injustice and environmental destruction, Professor Tuan affirms that all of us, by virtue of our remarkable senses and even more remarkable minds, are able to savor the wonders of our...

Since both Batman, the megalomaniacal industrialist, and Superman, the darling of the media, sometimes operate outside the law, which of them makes the better vigilante -- and how do they compare with Robin Hood, the anonymous donor, the Ninja, and the KKK? Which...

This book is not just about connections. Nor is it about one figure in particular. On the contrary, it is about the thread that connects sinister individuals - as they charm and worm their way through history; how society turns a blind eye to the trickery of real-life figures; how it falls upon us to recognize the scam.

It explores the kind of connections that bind together events and the people who make them happen, which at first seem unrelated, but have a curious element in common, one that allows some to cross boundaries many would never consider.

Images of narcissism play out...

Carrion is about a world consumed by chaos. But in this world, you are not a desperate survivor hoping to outlast the bedlam; instead, you are the monster that caused it. Consumed by an insatiable hunger, a malevolent need to feed, you are the one from whom the masses flee. And because of you a group of barbaric men led by a fanatic with a gleaming badge fastened to his chest have banded together with the intention of hunting you and all those like you down. Follow in the footsteps of a fiend. See what he sees. Taste the flesh. Smell the decay. Suffer the anguish. Witness a massive city...