Stephen T. Asma Books
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment In The Land Of The Tattered Buddha
By Stephen T. Asma, Asma, Stephen T.
In This Journey Through Cambodia And Southeast Asia, Intrepid Traveler And Scholar Stephen T. Asma Explores And Explains The Basics Of Buddhism. After The Vietnam War, The Communist Khmer Rouge Out...
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The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment In The Land Of The Tattered Buddha
Buddhism, Booze, and the Four Noble Truths Publishers Weekly Asma opens this memoirish spiritual travel guide with a central purpose: by journeying to Cambodia to see the collective manifestations...
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Stuffed Animals And Pickled Heads: The Culture Of Natural History Museums
By Stephen T. Asma, Stephen T Asma
the Natural History Museum Is A Place Where The Line Between High And Low Culture Effectively Vanishes—where Our Awe Of Nature, Our Taste For The Bizarre, And Our Thirst For Knowledge All Blen...
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Stuffed Animals And Pickled Heads: The Culture And Evolution Of Natural History Museums
the Natural History Museum Is A Place Where The Line Between High And Low Culture Effectively Vanishes—where Our Awe Of Nature, Our Taste For The Bizarre, And Our Thirst For Knowledge All Blen...
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On Monsters: An Unnatural History Of Our Worst Fears
By Stephen T. Asma, Asma, Stephen T.
Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the proce...
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Against Fairness
From the school yard to the workplace, there’s no charge more damning than “you’re being unfair !” Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed....
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Against Fairness
From the school yard to the workplace, there’s no charge more damning than “you’re being unfair !” Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed....
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The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots Of Culture And Cognition
By Stephen T. Asma, Rami Gabriel, Stephen T. Asma And Rami Gabriel
**Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a****philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason than to our cap...
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Following Form And Function: A Philosophical Archeology Of Life Science
By Stephen T. Asma, Stephen Asma
The concepts of form and function have traditionally been defined in terms of biology and then extended to other disciplines. Stephen T. Asma examines the various interpretations of form and functi...
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Following Form And Function: A Philosophical Archaeology Of Life Science
By Stephen T. Asma, Stephen Asma
The concepts of form and function have traditionally been defined in terms of biology and then extended to other disciplines. Stephen T. Asma examines the various interpretations of form and functi...
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