Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5631+6645 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668992 The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the antifragile. Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1650289 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1202561 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1327386 Barack Obama puzzles observers. Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Obama does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Instead, his writings and speeches reflect a principled aversion to absolutes that derives from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. Reading Obama traces the origins of his ideas and establishes him as the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century. James T. Kloppenberg demonstrates the influences that have shaped Obamas distinctive worldview, including Nietzsche and Niebuhr, Ellison and Rawls, and recent theorists engaged in debates about feminism, critical race theory, and cultural norms. Examining Obamas views on the Constitution, slavery and the Civil War, and the New Deal and civil rights, Kloppenberg shows Obamas sophisticated understanding of American history. Obamas interest in compromise, reasoned public debate, and the patient nurturing of civility is a sign of strength, not weakness, Kloppenberg argues. He locates its roots in Madison, Lincoln, and especially in the philosophical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey, which nourished generations of American progressives, black and white, female and male, through much of the twentieth century, albeit with mixed results. -- Book jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279330 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009558 Five meditations on the role of beauty in human life and its direct connection with the sacred--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009354 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543864 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=448898 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=118332 This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, Suntzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz with the historical legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers, and con men throughout the ages. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223309 There is a fundamental happiness available to every individual--yet we usually miss it while spending our lives trying to escape suffering that is ultimately guite inescapable. Pema Chodron, an American Buddhist teacher, shows that the secret to freeing oneself from pain is not to run from it, but to step right up to the uncharted territory of difficulty with friendliness and curiosity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1136069 The full philosophical system underlying Ayn Rands stories about life as if might be and ought to be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=173345