Fairfield: 21 books

In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfieldargues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Inspired by the revolutionary generation, nineteenth-century Americans...

Everyone wants to be happy. But somehow our happiness is transient, depending on whats happening in our lives. There is a deeper happiness that can only be found in the present moment.Deep Happy is based on quantum physics and the belief that we are intimately and infinitely connected to the...

Men of the Old Stone Age Henry Fairfield Osborn, american geologist, paleontologist and eugenist (1857-1935) This ebook presents «Men of the Old Stone Age», from Henry Fairfield Osborn. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table...

The story begins with the migration of ancestors John and Elizabeth Fairfield with their young son, Walter, from England to Massachusetts sometime in the 1630s. They lived lives typical of small-town pioneers of that era and at the same time laid the foundation for future descendants of the Fairfield...

Everyday Tarot, first published as Choice Centered Tarot, is an accessible, thorough introduction to the tarot. Gail Fairfield focuses on the psychological meanings that can be found in the symbolism of the cards. Rather than simply predicting a future in which we have no real choice, her clear, concise...

In this compelling examination of the intersection of smart technology and the law, Joshua A. T. Fairfield explains the crisis of digital ownership - how and why we no longer control our smartphones or software-enable devices, which are effectively owned by software and content companies. In two years...

Deep disagreements exist regarding what thinking and critical thinking are and to what extent they are teachable. Thinking is learned in some measure by all, but not everything that is learnable is also teachable in an institutional setting. In questioning the relationship between teachability and...

Based loosely on studies of religion, the sciences and the subconscious, philosophy graduate Hayes speculates on events and customs interlocking two powers: God and Orgasm. Noting the similarities, readers are given the opportunity to view these thoughts from a new perspective. What professionals...

Every aspect of our lives, from the most easily recognizable--relationships, material success, health, security, work--to much more subtle and often seemingly fixed subjects, such as truth, wisdom, spirit, and natural laws, constantly flows through ever-changing patterns and cycles. So, if the universe...

Paulo, a domestic servant with a reputation for back-talk, is witness to a murder. When a soothsayer, a psychic investigator, is brought in to solve the crime, she wants Paulo to help her. But if he does, he may get blacklisted and lose his job and home. He will be in worse danger from her: soothsayers can cause terrible psychic damage, and this one, people say, has something of a temper.

This book is about how to live well with people who deny our core beliefs, or whose actions we consider immoral, or who have traumatized us. Such people may be our spouses or kin, or international enemies. Our societies are polarized—in the United States around issues such as abortion, sexuality,...

Artistic creation has proven remarkably resistant to philosophical analysis. Artists have long struggled to explain how they do what they do, and philosophers have struggled along with them. This study does not attempt to offer a comprehensive account of all creativity or all art. Instead it tries...

From Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is dead" to Camus' argument that suicide is the fundamental question of philosophy, the concept of death plays an important role in existential phenomenology, reaching from Kierkegaard to Heidegger and Marcel. This book explores the phenomenology...

In Tyranny, brisk, spare text and illustrations that deal head-on with anorexia propel the reader along on Anna’s journey as she falls prey to the eating disorder, personified as her tormentor, Tyranny. The novel starts with a single question: “How did I get here?” The answer lies in...