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Really Really Big Questions by Stephen Law
Category: Education | 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: Education | 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: Business | 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
Space (Big Questions for Little People) by Claire Philip
Category: Education | Series: Big Questions for Little People
The series that answers all the questions that children really want to ask. Are there aliens on Mars? How fast do comets fly? Why do astronauts float in space? This book answers all these questions and more Filled with mind-boggling information on everything from dwarf planets and satellites to meteor ...Show more
The Big Questions: Ethics by Julian Baggini
Category: No Category | Series: The Big Questions
'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. In 'The Big Questions: Ethics' Julian Baggini, one of Britain's best-known philosophers, condenses complex, contemporary issues of ri ...Show more
The Big Questions: Mind by Richard M. Restak
Category: No Category | Series: The Big Questions
'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. In 'The Big Questions: Mind' the explanations behind the 'mysteries' of our unique minds - including how they differ from our brains ...Show more
The Big Questions : Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Think of a Number by Johnny Ball
Category: Education | Series: Big Questions
Join TV Presenter, Johnny Ball for an incredible number-filled adventure, cracking secret codes and unravelling mazes - now in paperback. Let your child join Johnny Ball on a dazzling maths adventure to infinity and beyond. They'll find out maths isn't just about sums and calculations, but how numbers c ...Show more
What Do You Believe? - Big Questions about Religion by DK
Category: No Category | Series: Big Questions Ser.
What was the first religion and where did it start? What is atheism? Why do some people wear turbans? Made for kids who ask the hard questions, this book gives answers to these and many more questions about religion. What Do You Believe? is a perfect introduction to all the main faiths, including Christ ...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
What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? and Other Big Questions by Jeffrey Boakye; Darren Chetty
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: And Other Big Questions
Masculinity is being discussed more than ever before, in a range of contexts. People talk about 'toxic masculinity', claim that there is a crisis in masculinity or argue that we need to 'reclaim masculinity'. There have always been many ways of being a man, and many people who have claimed that there a ...Show more
What Is Politics? Why Should We Care? And Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen, Annemarie Young
Category: Education | Series: And Other Big Questions
Politics, in its widest sense, affects us all, every day. What if there were no politics? What would that look like? What does it mean to be political or non-political and what effect do each of these positions have? Aimed at children aged 9 and up, this book is a highly topical look at how politics aff ...Show more