Emily Thomas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Philosopher of time, space, travel, arcane books. Professor at Durham. Author of Absolute Time & The Meaning of Travel. Defender of armchairs.
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad
Emily ThomasEmily ThomasSo @OUPPhilosophy has included The Meaning of Travel amongst its #WomeninHistory book choices for March! It explores Margaret Cavendish's 1666 Blazing World (a fabulous sci fi philosophy thought experiment) as well as gender in #philosophyoftravel more widely... https://t.co/JoM3ZAz78A
Paperback, 2022
$16.98Member price:$16.98 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Tom BoellstorffEmily ThomasYes! There’s an excellent anthropology of that even: Coming of age in second life, by Tom Boellstorff https://t.co/gWgVEoFRHK
Paperback, 2015
$29.95Member price:$26.95 + Free shipping10% off
The Confessions: Large Print
Jean-Jacques RousseauEmily ThomasFrench Philosopher Jean-Jacques #Rousseau was born #otd in 1712. He wrote philosophy, opera, maybe first-ever autobiography (Confessions), AND contributed to first-ever Encyclopaedia (Diderot's). He also thought women not rational, but Mary #Wollstonecraft put him straight there. https://t.co/K1JSexYKYl
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The Divine Fire
May SinclairEmily ThomasWriter Ford Maddox Ford on novelist-philosopher May Sinclair's best-seller, The Divine Fire: https://t.co/MS3XMaZqY1
Paperback, 2017
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Alexander William KinglakeEmily ThomasEnglish travel writer Alexander Kinglake born #otd in 1809. I love how he opens his 1844 #travelbook Eothen: Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East: https://t.co/IdN52wNvhO
Paperback, 2020
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lord of the Flies
William GoldingEmily ThomasNovelist William Golding, best known for Lord of the Flies, died #otd in 1993. Here's his stream-of-consciousness description of airplane #travel: https://t.co/mOXRWmi4IP
Paperback, 2003
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mary Shepherd
Antonia LolordoEmily ThomasLoving this opening to Antonia LoLordo's brand-new book on Mary Shepherd: https://t.co/fMXuOaD1pQ
Paperback, 2022
$23.00Member price:$21.85 + Free shipping5% off
Appearance and Reality (1893). By: F. H. Bradley: (metaphysical essay). Appearance and Reality comprises two volumes: Appearance and Reality.
F. H. BradleyEmily ThomasPhilosophy Twitter, am I right in thinking there's no critical edition of FH Bradley's Appearance and Reality? Given the amount of scholarship on Bradley, I'm surprised by this!
Paperback, 2017
$15.38Member price:$7.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Newton
Andrew JaniakEmily ThomasThis has arrived! Editors did fabulous job, covering mechanics to magic. Andrew Janiak & I have a fun paper about how 17th century theories of space (e.g. those of Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, & Catharine Cockburn) relate to God and evolved... #historyofphilosophy https://t.co/XWNydCKVXh
Paperback, 2015
$23.95Member price:$23.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Eothen
Alexander KinglakeEmily ThomasEnglish travel writer Alexander Kinglake born #otd in 1809. I love how he opens his 1844 #travelbook Eothen: Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East: https://t.co/IdN52wNvhO
Paperback, 2014
$5.99Member price:$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book