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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason by Sam Harris Publisher Comments This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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I and Thou by Martin Buber Publisher Comments Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire Publisher Comments Witty and caustic, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. In the story of the trials and travails of the youthful Candide, his mentor Dr. Pangloss, and a host of other characters, Voltaire mercilessly... (read more) Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt Staff Pick Lying is a craft, but bullshitting is an art. "Hence the familiar notion of the 'bullshit artist,'" moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt reminds us in this fun, erudite treatise. On Bullshit surely ranks as one of the best gift books to come along in quite... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder Publisher Comments One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl Publisher Comments With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Essay on the Freedom of the Will (05 Edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer Publisher Comments An accessible introduction to Schopenhauer's philosophy, this 1839 work was awarded first place in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences. The essay examines the issue of free will versus determinism, exhibiting many elements... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Dover Philosophical Classics) by David Hume Publisher Comments How do we know that God exists? One of Britain's greatest 18th-century philosophers addresses the age-old question in this timeless dialogue. Equally captivating as a philosophical argument and as a work of literature, this classic is particularly... (read more) Your price: $4.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Conception of Toleration by Chin Liew Ten Synopsis The Marshall Cavendish Signature Series is targeted at the intelligent layman reader and aims to enhance and enrich the readers appreciation of major life events and subjects. Featuring easy-to-read small format books, the series comprises contributions... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Book of Restorative Justice (02 Edition) by Howard Zehr Publisher Comments So who has time to prepare food these days We timestarved cooks need recipes that are guaranteed to beQuick to fix Easy for anyone to make whether yoursquo;re a cook or not Delicious and satisfying. The solution FixIt and Forgetit 5Ingredient Favorites... (read more) Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Short Life of Kierkegaard by Walter Lowrie Publisher Comments 'In his 'Short Life, ' Dr. Lowrie gives a clear and moving account of the history of Kierkegaard's development and his writings; of the phases and periods of his work; and of the happenings which...helped shape the nature and course of that work... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Experience and Education by John Dewey Publisher Comments Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey'... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Discourses of Epictetus (Everyman Library) by Epictetus Publisher Comments For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world Yet the stress on endurance, self-restraint and the power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Practical Ethics 2ND Edition by Peter Singer Publisher Comments The book's primary readership remains teachers and students of ethics whether in philosophy or some other branch of the humanities or social sciences. However, such is the clarity of the book's style and structure that it should interest any thinking... (read more) List Price $33.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Liberty (02 Edition) by John Stuart Mill Publisher Comments In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one... (read more) Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Atheist's Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts by Joan Konner Publisher Comments < p> All thinking men are atheists, Ernest Hemingway famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes, and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuses and jokers, giving readers a chance to decide for themselves.... < /p> < p> <... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between by Thomas Cathcart Publisher Comments Q. Why are there almost as many jokes about death as there are about sex? A. Because they both scare the pants off us. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato Publisher Comments The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris Publisher Comments "Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Introduction: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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