Just ... Think about It! - Tittle, Peg

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Résumé :
A collection of provocative pieces on a variety of topics: the environment (the notion of garbage, who owns the water, climate change as entertainment, ... ), business (the limits of advertising, the notion of profit, ...), rights and responsibilities (making certain words illegal, a concept of noise trespass, ...), social issues (appropriation vs imagination, flying the flag, ... ), ethics (should parents need to be licensed, politics in government, ...), education (the failure of ...), sports (drugs, competition, ...), religion (intelligent design, tax exemptions, ...), and more. Philosophy with attitude. Because the unexamined life is dangerous. * An omnibus of the four Shit that Pisses Me Off volumes plus over a hundred additional pieces (minus the pieces that address sexism, which are anthologized in Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off, along with a great many additional pieces). Includes pieces previously published in The Philosophers' Magazine, Philosophy Now, Humanist in Canada, and Victoria Times Colonist, as well as several previously unpublished pieces. Note that the 2nd edn includes almost all of the pieces in the 1st edn, plus more than eighty additional pieces. So if you've purchased the first edition of Just ... Think about It (or more than one volume of Shit that Pisses Me Off), contact me (through pegtittle.com), and I'll send you a copy of the second edition for free (because hey, you've already purchased much of it!). (Due to printing and postage costs, this offer applies only to the epub and pdf formats.) ________ An excellent collection of thought-provoking essays and short pieces. Just Think about It! (2nd edn) covers an amazingly wide range of topics that really made me think and reconsider my life, my choices, and our business-as-usual world. So much of what we are bombarded with on social media and mass media, so-called op-eds, are just a lot of noise...

Biographie:
Peg Tittle is the author of several novels-Fighting Words: notes for a future we won't have, Jess, Gender Fraud: a fiction (SF Category Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award), Impact, It Wasn't Enough (SF Category Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award), Exile, and What Happened to Tom (on Goodreads' 'Fiction Books that Opened your Eyes to a Social or Political Issue' list). She has also written nonfiction, including Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (2e), Just Think About It! (2e), What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy, and Critical Reasoning: An Appeal to Reason. She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year (one of her columns received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and another received 34,000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy caf? for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. She now blogs sporadically at pegtittle.com and hellyeahimafeminist.com....

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this author provides something very different. These are thought pieces, succinctly and logically presented for one's consideration. I came away feeling like I'd had a meaningful interaction and I really enjoyed and appreciated it. Karen Siddall, Amazon 4/5 Just Think about It! (1st edn) covers a wide range of topics (too numerous to mention), and she has endeavoured to group them together by subject. Some are only a page long, others cover several pages and are more like essays, but they will all make you think! James M. Fisher, The Miramichi Reader...