The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

5 best books like The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (Thomas S. Kuhn): Philosophical Investigations, Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want, Rose, Word and Object, Evolution: The History of an Idea

Philosophical Investigations

Author	Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN	0631231277

If you read first Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and then follow it with his Philosophical Investigations, you will treat yourself to perhaps the most fascinating intellectual development in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein has the distinct merit of producing, not one, but two enormously...

Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want

Author	Ronald J. Frederick
ISBN	0470377038

In LIVING LIKE YOU MEAN IT, author Ronald J. Frederick, does a brilliant job of describing why people are so afraid of their emotions and how this fear creates a variety of problems in their lives. While the problems are different, the underlying issue is often the same. At the core of their distress is...

Rose

Author	Li-Young Lee
ISBN	0918526531

In this outstanding first book of poems, Lee is unafraid to show emotion, especially when writing about his father or his wife. "But there is wisdom/ in the hour in which a boy/ sits in his room listening," says the first poem, and Lee's silent willingness to step outside himself imbues Rose with a rare...

Word and Object

Author	Willard Van Orman Quine
ISBN	0262670011

Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion,...

Evolution: The History of an Idea

Author	Peter J. Bowler
ISBN	0520236939

Since its original publication in 1983, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This new edition has been entirely rewritten to take account of the latest work...