The Big Questions

  • The Big Questions
    The Big Questions
    By Jonathan Hill

    Jonathan Hill explores how Christian thinkers, selected philosophers, and other religious leaders have addressed key issues--the big questions--over the centuries.

  • The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics
    The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics
    By Steven E. Landsburg

    the classroom and followed Mrs. Rosenberg through the hall. I was cheerfully keeping pace until we turned a corner and faced the most ominous thing I'd seen in my five years on earth: a sign on the wall—a sign that was all lit up so ...

  • The Big Questions: Physics
    The Big Questions: Physics
    By Michael Brooks

    The gaps were filled by a man born just one year after Galileo died: Isaac Newton. Unimpressive as he was at birth – his mother said he could be 'put in a quart mug' – Newton took just a couple of dozen years to gather all the ...

  • The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    By Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins

    Or is that just “the way things had to happen”? 6. Is freedom necessary for living the good life in a good society? ... Is it true, as our love songs often say, that breaking up a relationship is “being free again”?

  • The Big Questions: The Universe
    The Big Questions: The Universe
    By Stuart Clark

    Moon. doesn't. fall. down. The question is a simpleone. Theanswer isnotas simple asthe question,andthe search foritledto the defining momentofscience: the moment that precipitated the scientific revolution and the Ageof Enlightenment; ...

  • The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    By Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins

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  • The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    By Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins

    This engaging text covers philosophy's central topics through an exploration of timeless big questions such as the meaning of life, God, and morality, giving students of all backgrounds and interest levels an appealing, relevant context to ...

  • The Big Questions: Evolution
    The Big Questions: Evolution
    By Francisco Ayala

    Easy, enlightening and mind-stretching, here are answers to the 20 biggest questions of evolution and what they tell us about life on Earth.

  • The Big Questions: Mathematics
    The Big Questions: Mathematics
    By Tony Crilly

    In Big Questions: Mathematics, Tony Crilly answers the 20 key questions: What is math for?

  • The Big Questions: Physics
    The Big Questions: Physics
    By Michael Brooks

    The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy.

  • The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    By Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins

    To give you the flexibility to fit the book to your course, the authors have designed each chapter with self-contained discussions, thus making it easy for you to choose your preferred topics and presentation order.

  • The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics
    The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics
    By Steven E. Landsburg

    In the wake of his enormously popular books, The Armchair Economistand More Sex is Safer Sex, Steven Landsburg uses concepts from maths, economics and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: Where does knowledge come from?

  • The Big Questions: God
    The Big Questions: God
    By Mark Vernon

    Easy, enlightening and mind-stretching, here are answers to the 20 biggest questions of religion and its attempts to give meaning to our world.

  • The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy
    By Robert Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy Robert C Solomon, Kathleen Higgins

    Solomon and Higgins's engaging text covers philosophy's central ideas in an accessible, approachable manner.

  • The Big Questions: Ethics
    The Big Questions: Ethics
    By Julian Baggini

    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.

  • The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life
    The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life
    By Lou Marinoff

    Professor Lou Marinoff's first book drew on the wisdom of the great philosophers to solve our everyday problems, launching a movement that restored philosophy to what it once was: useful in all walks of life.