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Mindsight

Mindsight

Colin MCGINN

Perhaps it is the vast range of the topic that has scared off our contemporaries, ranging as it does from mental images to daydreams. The guiding thread of this book is the distinction Colin McGinn draws between perception and imagination.
Sport

Sport

Colin McGinn

But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our love of sport and explores the value it has for us and the part it plays in a life lived well.
Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas

Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas

Colin McGinn

In Minds and Bodies, Colin McGinn offers proof that contemporary philosophy, in the hands of a consummate reviewer, can be the occasion not only sharp critical assessment, but also writing so clear and engaging that readers with no special ...
Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays

Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays

Colin McGinn

Knowledge and Reality brings together a selection of Colin McGinn's philosophical essays from the 1970s to the 1990s, whose unifying theme is the relation between the mind and the world.
Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the ...

Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the ...

Colin McGinn

In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing.
The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World: ...

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World: ...

Colin Mcginn

One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world's premier question: What is the nature of consciousness?
Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry

Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry

Colin McGinn

This advanced introductory text offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori, and knowledge.
Helen McGinn's Teetotal Tipples, for January and Beyond

Helen McGinn's Teetotal Tipples, for January and Beyond

Helen McGinn

Think of this book as a friend, with a (dry) sense of humour, to keep you company in style through your booze-free spell.
The Meaning of Disgust

The Meaning of Disgust

Colin McGinn

Existentialism and psychoanalysis sought a general theory of human emotion; this book seeks to replace them with a theory in which our primary mode of feeling centers around disgust.
Moral Literacy, Or, How to Do the Right Thing

Moral Literacy, Or, How to Do the Right Thing

Colin McGinn

A great resource for beginning ethics courses. The book is short and yet it richly embodies the methods of ethical thinking about practical moral problems that are hard for students to learn unless they see them in action.
The Meaning of Disgust

The Meaning of Disgust

Colin McGinn

The analysis of disgust -- The aversive emotions -- The elicitors of disgust -- The architecture of disgust -- Theories of disgust -- Handling the cases -- The function of disgust -- Disgust and the human condition -- Our dual nature -- ...
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction

Colin McGinn

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that offers original new insights for both.
Mental Content

Mental Content

Colin McGinn

Aimed at philsophy graduates this book investigates mental content in a systematic way and advances a number of claims about how mental content states are related to the body and the world.
Remembering Colin Ward:

Remembering Colin Ward:

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At the Funeral Opening Address A Steady Rhythm of Friendship A Constant Influence What It Was Like Having Colin Ward as a Dad Nescafé and a Craven A The Memorial Meeting Welcome and Introduction Meeting Colin in the Sixties Colin ...
The Ultimate Super Bowl Book: A Complete Reference to the ...

The Ultimate Super Bowl Book: A Complete Reference to the ...

Bob McGinn

A Complete Reference to the Stats, Stars, and Stories Behind Football's Biggest Game--and Why the Best Team Won - Second Edition Bob McGinn. First published in 2009 by MVP Books, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 400 First ...
The Fix is in: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, ...

The Fix is in: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, ...

Brian Tuohy

Bob McGinn, “That defeat still hurts,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 31, 2008. 63. Ibid. 64. Brad Biggs, “Holmgren still explaining 'concession' touchdown, ” Chicago Sun- Times, February 4, 2006. 65. Bob McGinn, “That defeat still hurts,”  ...
The 1966 Green Bay Packers: Profiles of Vince Lombardi's ...

The 1966 Green Bay Packers: Profiles of Vince Lombardi's ...

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Bob McGinn, The Ultimate Super Bowl Book (Minneapolis: MVP Books, 2009), 18 . Ibid., 17. David Claerbaut, Bart Starr: When Leadership Mattered(Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade, 2004), 167. Ibid., 167. Stram, 132. McGinn, 15. Maraniss, 395.
Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work

Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work

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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; McGinn, Thomas A.J. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Thomas A.J. McGinn ANCIENT WORLD. Mesopotamia Prostitution in ...
Summary, Analysis & Review of T. Colin Campbell’s and Thomas ...

Summary, Analysis & Review of T. Colin Campbell’s and Thomas ...

Eureka

People. T. Colin Campbell: T. Colin Campbell is most well known for his work on the China Study and his advocacy of a ... Thomas M. Campbell, II: Thomas Campbell, II is the son of T. Colin Campbell, a clinical family medicine instructor at the ...
A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

Lady Colin Campbell

She then became a model, a designer and married Lord Colin Campbell in the 1970s in a short and violent marriage. A true assortment of riches, this is her own candid, poignant and remarkable story.
Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students

Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students

Colin Stanley

In Bibliographical Details, citations under Secondary Sources and Reviewsto Around, Bendau, Bergstrom, Campion, Celebration, Dossor, and Weigel, refer to the ... Bendau: Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond by Clifford P. Bendau.
A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

A Life Worth Living: The Autobiography of Lady Colin Campbell

Lady Colin Campbell

Lady Colin Campbell was the first person to reveal the problems in Charles and Diana's marriage, as well as writing an expose of the Queen and Prince Philip's relationship.
Colin Wilson, the Outsider and Beyond

Colin Wilson, the Outsider and Beyond

Clifford P. Bendau

INTRODUCTION The "Colin Wilson Phenomenon," one writer's description of Colin Wilson's overnight emergence as a major writer, could be a lucrative subject for fiction. It has all of the elements of a successful paperback novel: a rapid rise ...
Colin Seeley: Racer ...and the Rest

Colin Seeley: Racer ...and the Rest

Colin Seeley

Racer ...and the Rest Colin Seeley. The Goodwood Revival, 2001 was held to celebrate the achievements and victories of past motorsport heroes. I was fortunate enough to be invited as a guest rider for the motorcycle section, parading a rare ...
Encyclopedia of Boxing

Encyclopedia of Boxing

Gilbert E. Odd

Colin Power w.rsf. 10 Des Morrison, London. Colin Power w.rsf.7 Chris Walker, Sheffield. Clinton McKenzic w.rsf. 10 Jim Montague, Belfast. *Colin Power w.pts. 15 Clinton McKenzie, London. Clinton McKenzic w.pts. 15 Colin Power, London.
The Disciples #2

The Disciples #2

Chris Colin

Chris Colin, Colin Clayton.
Colin the Librarian

Colin the Librarian

Rich Parsons

Anyone who has done battle with evil things from Middle Earth or voyaged to planets with names difficult to spell will sympathize with Colin.
My Name Is Colin: ...and This Is Who I Am

My Name Is Colin: ...and This Is Who I Am

Brian A. Beale

Colin, a young man with Down syndrome, shares what makes him who he is. He talks about how the disability does not define the person and using people-first language is a way to respect that.
Colin Jackson: The Autobiography

Colin Jackson: The Autobiography

Colin Jackson

In this book he speaks candidly for the first time about drugs, corruption, and mismanagement, as well as his relationships with the greats of British athletics.
Life's New Hurdles

Life's New Hurdles

Colin Jackson

Colin Jackson is one of the greatest athletes that Britain has ever produced.

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