High Thoughts

Thought experiments are both fun and useful precursors to smarter, often bolder solutions to life's and society's problems. This updated printing offers 34 thought experiments, each presented concisely.

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first extensive coverage of vice epistemology, an exciting new area of philosophical research, Vices of the Mind uses real examples drawn primarily from the world of politics to develop a compelling theory of epistemic vice.

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.

If you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind: Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? Addressing these questions compels you to confront not just your dog's life but yours as well—to think about what fulfillment, and meaning, in life really is. In The Word of Dog, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores these questions and suggests that in dogs we can see hints—faint, shrouded, but discernible—of what a better way of living might look like.

Step into the mystical world of numbers and unlock the profound secrets of numerology with "The Divine Nine: Exploring the Sacred Symbolism of Numerology’s Highest Number" by Thaddeus Shade. This captivating book delves into the mysterious and powerful number 9, revered throughout history as a symbol of spiritual wisdom, universal compassion, and ultimate completion.

What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. Richard Swinburne comes to the defense of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences, we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new.

You are what you eat, think, feel, and how you live. Our experts provide a roadmap to wellness and pathways for disease prevention. Bask in the high-frequency practices and watch how a conscious shift in perspective changes everything.

Break free from anxiety with this powerful, practical guide. "Anxiety Released" offers proven strategies and step-by-step techniques that create lasting change. Discover research-based methods that have helped thousands find relief.

Your mind holds the secret to everything you’ve ever wanted—clarity, confidence, health, success, influence, and peace. Now is the time to unlock it. In this bold modern reimagining of the classic Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic by William Walker Atkinson, professional hypnotist and transformation expert Mark Anthony – The Rogue Hypnotist guides you into the hidden mechanisms of the mind—and shows you how to master them. You'll discover how to: Tap into powerful thought currents and mental vibrations Influence others ethically and effortlessly Build a magnetic personality and...

When Emma's diary is stolen from her locker, her world is shaken. A quiet and timid girl, will she find the strength to fight back? This is flash-fiction story of approximately 1200 words.

Strategies for Explosive Business Growth How High-Level Leaders Scale With Alignment, Profit, and Legacy in Mind At a certain level, growth isn’t about speed—it’s about substance. In this final volume of her bestselling 7-book series, Executive Book Strategist Candace Sinclair reveals how executive entrepreneurs, C-suite leaders, and seasoned founders can unlock powerful, aligned business growth without sacrificing energy, profit, or purpose. This isn’t just a book about scale. It’s a guide to reimagining success from the inside out. Inside, you’ll discover how to: Stop default-...

Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West), Jan Morris has been dazzling fans since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved 92-year-old, author of classics such as Venice and Trieste, embarks on an entirely new literary enterprise - a collection of daily diaries, penned over the course of a single year.

No one has captured the complexities of marriage at middle age better than Elizabeth Buchan. Now she is back with another irresistibly entertaining and thoughtful tale of two women at the crossroads of love, of freedom, who wonder: Where does happiness lie?

Brad Klein, 16, has just lost his best friend in a tragic snowmobile accident in this young adult book about moving, making friends, and coping with grief and loss. Just when Brad Klein thinks life couldn’t get any worse...it does. The small town his family moved to is horrible. Who ever heard of things like curfews for snowmobiles being on the street? Or that the police would chase you for being a few minutes late? And the other kids at his new high school? While Chickowski and Hollander might be snowmobilers, they’re the biggest jerks he’s ever met. They seem to want just one thing-...

Hone your mental toughness so you can stand tall in the face of life’s biggest challenges. Life presents challenges for all human beings. They can arise in your career, relationships, or family life. It can sometimes feel like you are trying to fulfill too many roles, and when painful events occur, it can feel like the straw that broke the camel’s back.

If you are confident that your social skills are way below your expectations, then Improve Your Social Skills should be a perfect choice of audiobook for you. Anyone can be social despite their background, age, and status. Sadly, a good percentage of people seem to lack the right skills to make them stand out of a socialization crowd. If you are in that category, you have all the reasons to smile about because the solution to your current situation lies in the information contained in this audiobook.

Life is full of good times and bad times. It is not enough to live, one needs to truly appreciate all the different aspects of life before passing judgment. When you are young, you ruminate about assorted elements which come your way. Experience is built via relationships and obstacles and challenges. Each life has its own assortment, and the variety often shapes the character, morals, values, thoughts, ideas, and feelings of the individual living it. This book holds a variety of lessons and contributes to sharing, from one soul to the next. It is deep, it is intriguing, and it is a ...

Radical Enlightenment: My Guy on the 9th Floor is a practical, step-by-step user’s guide on how to free yourself from the prison of our 3-dimensional world, expand into new dimensions of consciousness, and "hack" inner-peace to never again suffer a bad day. Interspersed with stories of my own experiences, this manual is a handbook and reference guide for thriving in our entangled, energetic, and interconnected world. A world we are all part of and intrinsically connected to, but a world that is just beyond our 3-dimensional perceptions.

"You'll love the ride of this funny and fast-paced story about the conflicts faced by Hash O'Connell and his friends as they travel by garbage truck through reality and virtual reality." –Joseph Gansrow, author of Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sentences They line up in Frick Village to get on the garbage truck: the disoriented, the suicidal, the desperate, even the kid who won't look up from her cell phone. They are Generation Dementia, high school seniors who have lost their bearings. When a video made about the troubled teens on the garbage truck goes viral, the reality TV crews ...

Over thirty years ago I had a significant spiritual experience during which I received information about something called ‘high vibrational thinking’, HVT. This changed my life because from that moment on empowered with this new perspective, I began to see everything in a very different way. It was amazing what I could see because HVT literally takes positive thinking up to the next level and reveals many hidden secrets. And it was astonishing that other people seemed bewildered when I tried to explain it to them. I guess the world wasn’t ready for it back then. However as the years ...