Christopher Phillips: 29 books
Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
"A bracing, rollicking read about the spark that ignites when people start asking meaningful questions." —O Magazine
Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with...
by Christopher Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
How people around the world grapple with the great questions posed by Socrates.
What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become...
by Christopher Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
“[Phillips takes] philosophy out of the ivory tower and into the street.”—Los Angeles Times
Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we’re all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. That is, love not defined only...
The Battle for Syria
International Rivalry in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war Most accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the...
Scouting and Scoring
How We Know What We Know about Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball
Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and...
The Rivers Ran Backward
The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham...
The Philosophy of Childing
Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason through the Wisdom of Our Youngest
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, The Philosophy of Childing takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what...
Programming Elastic MapReduce
Using AWS Services to Build an End-to-End Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Although you don’t need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it can still be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud by using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop...
Constitution Café: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution
Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
“A provocative extension of Jefferson’s original plan.”—Kirkus Reviews
Thomas Jefferson believed that every generation of Americans should rewrite our Constitution from scratch—to mirror the progress of the human mind and, most of all, to maintain the revolutionary spirit. He would...
Everyday Arab Identity
The Daily Reproduction of the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Whether through government propaganda or popular transnational satellite television channels, Arab citizens encounter a discourse that reinforces a sense of belonging to their own state and a broader Arab world on a daily basis. Looking through the lens of nationalism theory, this book examines how...
by Christopher Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
By studying the characteristics of those positioned along this fault line during the Civil War, the centrality of the war issue of slavery, which border residents long eschewed as being divisive, became apparent. This book explains how the process of Southernization occurred during and after the Civil...
A Child at Heart
Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, A Child at Heart takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks...
The Civil War Guerrilla
Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as "the...
Epic in American Culture
Settlement to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The epic calls to mind the famous works of ancient poets such as Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. These long, narrative poems, defined by valiant characters and heroic deeds, celebrate events of great importance in ancient times. In this thought-provoking study, Christopher N. Phillips shows in often surprising...