The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night. Memory isnt all that we think it is. Each time we revisit even our most deeply ingrained me...Lasīt vairāk
A brilliant journey through the nature of memory, helping us understand how what is lostand what is rememberedshapes who we are.In this revelatory and intimate exploration of the way memory works, Mark Rowlands, author of The Phil...Lasīt vairāk
If a dog could write a book of philosophy, what would it contain? If you have spent part of your life with a dog, you may find certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind. Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Do...Lasīt vairāk
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 confro...Lasīt vairāk
Short, reader-friendly overview of the contenious moral issue of animal rights-- A fresh view of animals and what we owe them.Do animals have moral standing? Do they count, morally speaking? In Animal Rights, Mark...Lasīt vairāk
A heartwarming philosophical meditation on how to live a fulfilling lifeinspired by the inherent happiness of dogs. If you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your...Lasīt vairāk
A ground-breaking exploration of a dogs experience of the world and how they can help us understand ourselves better, from the author of The Philosopher and the Wolf....Lasīt vairāk
Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented and, if unchecked, disastrous. Species are...Lasīt vairāk
A Collection of True Tales of Animal Empathy and Altruism that will Inspire Us to Reflect on Our Own Human Nature What do stories about humpback whales protecting a biologist from a shark, a pride of lions rescuing a girl from k...Lasīt vairāk
Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, No! In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Taking, as his starting poin...Lasīt vairāk
This moving account of the life ( Rowlands) lived with an adopted wolf will be recognized as a seminal work of philosophy that forces us to re-evaluate our view of the human animal John Gray, author of Straw Dogs This moving account of t...Lasīt vairāk
One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once associated with excellence or achievement in some or...Lasīt vairāk
The idea that our memories, in some sense, make us who we are, is a common one-and not at all implausible. After all, what could make us who we are if not the things we have experienced, thought, felt and desired on these idiosyncratic pathways throu...Lasīt vairāk
From the bestselling author of The Philosopher and the Wolf comes a gripping and provocative story of one mans life through a philosophical lens...Lasīt vairāk
Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions, and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by h...Lasīt vairāk
This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily well-travelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person and, s...Lasīt vairāk
From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food if doing so gave another monkey an electric shock, there is much evidence of animals...Lasīt vairāk
Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past 20 years has been done while running, says philosophy professor Rowlands, who has run for most of his life. And for him, running and philosophizing are inextricably connected. In R...Lasīt vairāk
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Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son aft...Lasīt vairāk
