<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Philosophy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Philosophy"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/austin/rss/search?query=%22Philosophy%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:07:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Braiding Sweetgrass]]></title><description><![CDATA["As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2129587</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2129587</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimmerer, Robin Wall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2129587067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781571311771/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Score]]></title><description><![CDATA["A philosophy of games to help us win back control over what we value. The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen-one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data-takes us deep into the heart of games, and into the depths of bureaucracy, to see how scoring systems shape our desires. Games are the most important art form of our era. They embody the spirit of free play. They show us the subtle beauty of action everywhere in life in video games, sports, and boardgames-but also cooking, gardening, fly-fishing, and running. They remind us that it isn't always about outcomes, but about how glorious it feels to be doing the thing. And the scoring systems help get us there, by giving us new goals to try on. Scoring systems are also at the center of our corporations and bureaucracies-in the form of metrics and rankings. They tell us exactly how to measure our success. They encourage us to outsource our values to an external authority. And they push on us to value simple, countable things. Metrics don't capture what really matters; they only capture what's easy to measure. The price of that clarity is our independence. The Score asks us is this the game you really want to be playing?"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2272272</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2272272</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nguyen, C. Thi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2272272067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How to Stop Playing Somebody Else&apos;s Game</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593655658/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calliope Callisto Clark and the Search for Wisdom]]></title><description><![CDATA[""Difficult" student Callie joins a philosophy club seeking the wisdom she needs to keep her beloved but equally difficult dog"-- ]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2275956</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2275956</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mills, Claudia]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2275956067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780823460502/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Book of Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, the book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? While discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time, she shares her profound revelations about her next, and perhaps final, adventure.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2155716</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2155716</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Goodall, Jane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2155716067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Survival Guide for Trying Times</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250784094/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Know A Person]]></title><description><![CDATA["As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood." And yet we humans don't do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person's story should you pay attention to? Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and his determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception. The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood." --Goodreads.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2212520</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2212520</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brooks, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2212520067</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593793657/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[El jarrón de las grietas doradas]]></title><description><![CDATA["En un remoto lugar de Japón, una valiosa tradición se transmite de padre a hijo. Un jarrón se llena, cada día, de mágicas palabras. Y, como "miguitas de pan" que marcan el camino correcto, guiarán a nuestro protagonista hasta hallar su sentido en la vida o Ikigai. Pero antes, cuando el jarrón se rompa, lejos de la culpa o el arrepentimiento, el arte del Kintsugi le mostrará la importancia de poner su atención en el aprendizaje y el significado de las segundas oportunidades. Una hermosa lectura para descubrir cuánto nos aporta cada tropiezo en la vida: la magia de fijar con hilos dorados las cicatrices que nos recuerden cuánto hemos crecido. Una ancestral tradición y una poderosa filosofía se plasman en este evocador álbum ilustrado, que devuelve la importancia a las tradiciones y el valor al trabajo artesano." --]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2281599</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2281599</guid><category><![CDATA[PICTURE_BOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nuño, Fran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2281599067</comments><format>PICTURE_BOOK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788419464934/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Book of Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA["Looking at the headlines--the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? Filled with moving and inspirational stories and photographs from Jane's remarkable career, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today. While discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time, she shares her profound revelations about her next, and perhaps final, adventure. The second book in the Global Icons Series--which launched with the instant classic The Book of Joy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu--The Book of Hope is a rare and intimate look not only at the nature of hope but also into the heart and mind of a woman who revolutionized how we view the world around us and has spent a lifetime fighting for our future. There is still hope, and this book will help guide us to it"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2164236</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2164236</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Goodall, Jane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2164236067</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Survival Guide for Trying Times</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432894283/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Serviceberry]]></title><description><![CDATA["As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry's relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth--its abundance of sweet, juicy berries--to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, "Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.""--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2238355</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2238355</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimmerer, Robin Wall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2238355067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668072240/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Serviceberry]]></title><description><![CDATA["As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry's relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth -- its abundance of sweet, juicy berries -- to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, 'Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.'" --]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2244397</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2244397</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimmerer, Robin Wall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2244397067</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420520026/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Philosophy of Walking]]></title><description><![CDATA["This book will change how you think about walking and how you walk while you are thinking. In an updated new edition, Frederic Gros leads readers on an entertaining and insightful ramble in the company of great philosophers -- Kant, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Kierkegaard -- who understood that great ideas came to them while on foot." --]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2250342</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2250342</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gros, Frédéric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2250342067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781804290446/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Interior Design Handbook]]></title><description><![CDATA["Frida Ramstedt believes in thinking about how we decorate, rather than focusing on what we decorate with. We know more today than ever before about design trends, furniture, and knickknacks, and now Frida familiarizes readers with the basic principles behind interior and styling--what looks good and, most of all, why it looks good. The Interior Design Handbook teaches you general rules of thumb--like what the golden ratio and the golden spiral are, the proper size for a coffee table in relation to your sofa, the optimal height to hang lighting fixtures, and the best ways to use a mood board--complete with helpful illustrations"--Publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2228346</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2228346</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramstedt, Frida]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2228346067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Furnish, Decorate, and Style your Space</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593139318/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Do Nothing]]></title><description><![CDATA["When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as...doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2061916</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2061916</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Odell, Jenny (Multimedia artist)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2061916067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Resisting the Attention Economy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781612197494/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do Aliens Speak Physics?]]></title><description><![CDATA["A hilarious, mind-bending investigation into how much humans and aliens might have in common, scientifically speaking--from a best-selling cartoonist and acclaimed physicist."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2285765</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2285765</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Whiteson, Daniel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2285765067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>And Other Questions About Science and the Nature of Reality</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324064640/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the Point of Philosophy?]]></title><description><![CDATA["Why is philosophy important? What's so great about it? Leap into the world of philosophy and discover questions about life, the universe, and human behavior that great thinkers have pondered throughout history, and which are still being asked today"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2285097</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2285097</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atkinson, Sam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2285097067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780744056242/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenlights]]></title><description><![CDATA["Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2130533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2130533</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McConaughey, Matthew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2130533067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593139134/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metamorphosis]]></title><description><![CDATA[""How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?" the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He could not have known the full extent of the truth: Today, biologists estimate a stunning three-quarters of all animal species on earth undergo some form of metamorphosis. But why do tadpoles transform into frogs, caterpillars into butterflies, elvers into eels, immortal jellyfish from sea sprigs to medusae and back again, growing younger and younger in frigid ocean depths? Why must creatures go through massive destruction and remodeling to become who they are? Tracing a path from Aristotle--who rejected the possibility of metamorphosis--to Darwin to today, historian of science Oren Harman explores that central mystery.  Metamorphosis, however, isn't just a biological puzzle: It takes us to the very heart of questions of being and identity, whatever kind of change we may undergo. Metamorphosis is a new classic of natural history: a book that, by unveiling a mystery of nature, causes us to relearn ourselves"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2284163</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2284163</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harman, Oren Solomon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2284163067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Natural and Human History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781541607606/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Field Guide to Getting Lost]]></title><description><![CDATA[A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1948567</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1948567</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Solnit, Rebecca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1948567067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143037248/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Mystics Walk Into A Tavern]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Leon, and Meister Eckhart three of the greatest mystics of all time meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic."]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1085560</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1085560</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harrington, James C.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1085560067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses De León in Medieval Venice</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780761865421/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults]]></title><description><![CDATA["Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2190979</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2190979</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimmerer, Robin Wall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2190979067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781728458991/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poison for Breakfast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the course of his long and suspicious career, Mr. Snicket has investigated many things, including villainy, treachery, conspiracy, ennui, and various suspicious fires. In this book, he is investigating his own death.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2153431</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2153431</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Snicket, Lemony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2153431067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324090625/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Art Does]]></title><description><![CDATA["What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question.  It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring call to imagine a different future."--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2250421</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2250421</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eno, Brian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2250421067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Unfinished Theory</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780571395514/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theory of Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force-water-through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing-in all kinds of weather, on all kinds of snow across all kinds of terrain, often following the trail beside a beloved creek near her home. Recently, as she skied on this path against the backdrop of uncertainty, environmental devastation, rising authoritarianism and ongoing social injustice, her mind turned to the water in the creek and an elemental question: What might it mean to truly listen to water? To know water? To exist with and alongside water? So began a quest to understand her people's historical, cultural, and ongoing interactions with water in all its forms (ice, snow, rain, perspiration, breath). Pulling together these threads, Leanne began to see how a "Theory of Water" might suggest a radical rethinking of relationships between beings and forces in the world today. In this inventive work, Simpson draws on Nishnaabeg origin stories while artfully weaving the work of influential writers and artists alongside her personal memories and experience-and in doing so, reimagines water as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world. Theory of Water is a resonant exploration of an intricate, multi-layered relationship with the most abundant element on our planet-one that, as Simpson eloquently shows, is shaping our present even as it demands a radical rethinking of how we might achieve a just future.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2263034</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2263034</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2263034067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798888903681/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am A Part of Infinity]]></title><description><![CDATA["Nearly everyone is familiar with Einstein's scientific accomplishments-but few know the truth of how spiritual philosophies shaped his life and work. Scientists and biographers have treated Einstein's views on the eternal as vague and metaphorical. For Einstein, however, spirituality and science were a vital pairing. In I Am a Part of Infinity, Kieran Fox examines for the first time the strength and the subtlety of Einstein's spirituality. Revealing the Greek philosophies and East Asian religious teachings that Einstein revered, Fox traces, for example, how Pythagoras and Democritus allowed Einstein to conceptualize mathematical simplicity and the power of the mind, and how the Upanishads and Jainism shaped his views on the nature of the universe and morality. Fox shows how Einstein melded those ideas with his science to create one all-encompassing philosophy, in which the cosmic oneness of his work in physics was inextricably linked to his pacificism and his moral commitments to all life. Drawing on little-known conversations, recently published letters, and new archival research, I Am a Part of Infinity shows, for the first time, what Einstein really believed, and why his perspective still matters today"--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2277100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2277100</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fox, Kieran C. R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2277100067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781541603578/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[What About Philosophy]]></title><description><![CDATA["'What about Philosophy' is a Q&A book that guides readers through the many possible answers to a wide range of compelling questions that real kids asked. The thought-provoking content, which offers various ways to look at many of life's biggest philosophical questions, was created with the advice of philosophers and paired with quirky cartoons to encourage children to think for themselves."--]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2195326</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2195326</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Boulet, Gwénaëlle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2195326067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Illustrated Q&amp;A Book for Kids</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9791036353086/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of Truth]]></title><description><![CDATA["From legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: what is truth-and how to find it in our "post-truth" era? For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction, documentary and drama, reality and imagination. Invariably, Herzog goes beyond the appearance of what is true in search of a higher truth, or what he has often referred to as the "ecstatic truth". But never before has he engaged so directly with the question of truth. In The Future of Truth, a great artist essays an answer to one of humanity's deepest, most eternal questions. At a moment when deepfake AI videos are proliferating, and most people have simply thrown up their hands in despair at the ubiquity of what we now know as fake news-not to mention the constant lying and propagandizing from certain public figures-Herzog seeks a remedy. Mixing memoir, history, politics, poetry, science, and fierce opinion, he writes with dazzling originality and panache, urging readers themselves to be unflagging and imaginative in the pursuit of truth, endless though the quest may be: I don't think truth is some kind of Pole star in the sky that we will one day get to. It's more like an incessant striving. A movement towards it, an uncertain journey, a seeking full of futile endeavor. But it is this journey into the unknown, into a vast twilit forest, that gives our lives meaning and purpose; it's what distinguishes us from the beasts in the fields"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2265965</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2265965</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Herzog, Werner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2265965067</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593833674/MC.GIF&amp;client=austinpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>