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Big Questions about the Body by Rachel Sousa Ashe De Firth
Category: Education | Series: Big Questions Ser.
Children love to ask questions about their bodies that adults struggle to answer, about life, death and everything in between. This is the book to give those curious children! Not just a tour of the body, its organs, and how they work, this book takes the time to answer questions kids didn't know they w ...Show more
Big Questions about the Universe by Alex Frith, Alice James
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Big Questions Ser.
How big is space, where does it end, and more thought-provoking questions.The questions in this book were curated by the staff at London's Royal Observatory, to address all the most common - and a few uncommon - things that children want to know about space. Planets, moons, exploration and even some rea ...Show more
Big Questions for Little People: Animals by Claire Philip
Category: Animals | Series: Big Questions for Little People Ser.
The series that answers all the questions that children really want to ask. Do birds fall in love? Why do chameleons change color? How do frogs walk upside down? This book answers all these questions and more Filled with fascinating information on all sorts of animals, from blue whales and bears ...Show more
Can War Be Justified? - A Debate by Jennifer Kling; Andrew Fiala
Category: World | Series: Little Debates about Big Questions Ser.
Can war be justified? Pacifists answer that it cannot; they oppose war and advocate for nonviolent alternatives to war. But defenders of just war theory argue that in some circumstances, when the effectiveness of nonviolence is limited, wars can be justified. In this book, two philosophers debate this q ...Show more
Can We Know Anything?: A Debate by Bryan Frances, Michael Huemer
Category: Philosophy | Series: Little Debates about Big Questions Ser.
In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether - and how - we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds. Starting with opening statements, the debate moves through two rounds of replies. In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether – and how – we can gain k ...Show more
Do Numbers Exist?: A Debate about Abstract Objects by Peter van Inwagen, William Lane Craig
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Little Debates about Big Questions Ser.
In Do Numbers Exist? William Lane Craig and Peter van Inwagen take opposite sides on whether there are abstract objects, such as numbers and properties. Craig argues that there are no abstract objects, whereas Van Inwagen argues that there are. In Do Numbers Exist? Peter van Inwagen and William Lane Cra ...Show more
Really Big Questions For Daring Thinkers: Space and Time by Mark Brake
Category: Learning | Series: Really Big Questions for Daring Thinkers Ser.
What's the difference between me, a planet and a star? Does the Universe follow a recipe? If a wardrobe has three dimensions, what is the fourth?These are some of life's biggest questions, and you are a daring thinker for even thinking about them! So open your mind and prepare to explore some of the big ...Show more
Really Really Big Questions by Stephen Law
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Really Really Big Questions Ser.
REALLY, REALLY BIG QUESTIONS is an unusual and fun introduction to philosophy that explores life's important but often unanswered questions. Readers will be able to explore the history of thought and the great thinkers and learn how to think rationally for themselves. Mind-teasers, optical illusions and ...Show more
Really Really Big Questions About Faith by Julian Baggini
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Really Really Big Questions Ser.
"Really Really Big Questions About Faith" is an unusual and fun introduction to the philosophy, ethics and meaning behind different kinds of belief. It explores tricky, strange and often unanswered questions such as Do miracles really happen? What do gods look like? Do all religions have a rule book? An ...Show more
Should Wealth Be Redistributed? - A Debate by Steven McMullen; James R. Otteson
Category: Environment | Series: Little Debates about Big Questions Ser.
A central contested issue in contemporary economics and political philosophy is whether governments should redistribute wealth. In this book, a philosopher and an economist debate this question. James Otteson argues that respect for individual persons requires that the government should usually not alte ...Show more
The Big Questions : Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The\Big Questions Ser.
The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from h ...Show more
What Goes on in My Head? by Robert Winston
Category: Education | Series: Big Questions Ser.
Get thinking about thinking Introducing readers to the most powerful and complicated computer network they will ever encounter -- their own brain -- What Goes on in My Head? explains what the different parts of the brain do, how they work together, what gives us our individual personalities, why some pe ...Show more