2012 Puddly Awards
 
 
Follow us on TwitterFollow us on FacebookFollow us on Google+Follow us on TumblrSubscribe to RSS


Google eBooks


spacer

Google eBooks
Philosophy


There are 6920 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price

Featured Titles in Google eBooks - Philosophy
Page 1 of 346 next

Buddha Nature Now: Discovering Your Buddha Nature
Buddha Nature Now: Discovering Your Buddha Nature
by Henry Landry
Publisher Comments
From the 1950's onward the Buddhist philosophy has grown in our Western world. This philosophy underlies one of the oldest spiritual practices on earth, the faith of compassion and peaceful means. The reason for its existence is to enable all people to... (read more)

List Price $3.99
Your price: $3.54
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Pursuits of Wisdom
Pursuits of Wisdom
by John M. Cooper
Publisher Comments
This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient... (read more)

List Price $35.00
Your price: $31.06
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry
Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry
by William Irwin
Publisher Comments
Is Peter Parker to blame for the death of Uncle Ben? What does spider-sense reveal about the nature of perception? Does great power really bring great responsibility? How should Spider-Man fight villains who are former friends? Can Spidey champion... (read more)

Your price: $9.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


What Is Ignostic Judaism?: Thoughts of a Secular, Humanistic, Cultural, Ignostic Jew regarding Science, Religion and Faith
What Is Ignostic Judaism?: Thoughts of a Secular, Humanistic, Cultural, Ignostic Jew regarding Science, Religion and Faith
by Ed Brody
Publisher Comments
An atheist does not believe in God. An agnostic is uncertain about the existence of a God. The scientific community agrees that the Universe was formed with the "Big Bang" and that it is impossible to determine where, how or why this took place. Rabbi... (read more)

List Price $9.99
Your price: $8.87
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry
Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry
by William Irwin
Publisher Comments
Is Peter Parker to blame for the death of Uncle Ben? What does spider-sense reveal about the nature of perception? Does great power really bring great responsibility? How should Spider-Man fight villains who are former friends? Can Spidey champion... (read more)

Your price: $9.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


What's the Point?: A Guide to Life and Happiness
What's the Point?: A Guide to Life and Happiness
by Anthony Peters
Publisher Comments
This is a book about the meaning of life and achieving lasting happiness. Incorporating religion, spirituality and science, this is an essential read for those who want to find that little bit extra into an ordinary life. By reading this book you will... (read more)

List Price $3.99
Your price: $3.54
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke
The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke
by William Irwin
Publisher Comments
What would Aristotle make of Sheldon Cooper's life? Why would Thomas Hobbes applaud the roommate agreement? Why would Immanuel Kant heap haughty derision upon weaving un-unravelable webs? Is Sheldon's "scientistic" approach to everyday life healthy or... (read more)

Your price: $9.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy
Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy
by Seth Vannatta
Publisher Comments
Since he burst on the world with his heavy-metal memoir Fargo Rock City in 2001, Chuck Klosterman has been one of the most successful novelists and essayists in America. His collections of essays Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV: A... (read more)

List Price $19.95
Your price: $17.71
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


The Republic
The Republic
by Plato
Publisher Comments
The newest deluxe edition in the bestselling Capstone Classics Series This ancient classic has had a make-over. In recent years these Capstone Classic deluxe editions have caught the book buying public's imagination. The volumes of international... (read more)

Your price: $9.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Introduction to Presocratics: A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy with Key Readings
Introduction to Presocratics: A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy with Key Readings
by Giannis Stamatellos
Publisher Comments
Despite what is commonly taught, Western philosophy did not begin with Socrates. The roots of Western philosophy and science, in fact, run much deeper than this watershed philosophical figure -- to a series of innovative Greek thinkers of the 6th and 5th... (read more)

Your price: $59.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature
Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature
by Ben Lazare Mijuskovic
Publisher Comments
Drawing on the fields of psychology, literature, and philosophy, Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature argues that loneliness has been the universal concern of mankind since the Greek myths and dramas, the dialogues of Plato, and the... (read more)

List Price $3.99
Your price: $3.54
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
by Allen Carlson
Publisher Comments
The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and... (read more)

Your price: $20.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy
Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy
by Robert Schwartz
Publisher Comments
Rethinking Pragmatism explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched views of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs.  It clarifies pragmatic... (read more)

Your price: $74.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


God in Pain
God in Pain
by Slavoj Zizek
Publisher Comments
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters... (read more)

List Price $19.95
Your price: $17.71
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Thoughts to Enlighten and Empower the Mind: 2001 Questions and Philosophical Thoughts to Inspire, Enlighten, and Empower Our World to Limitless Heights
Thoughts to Enlighten and Empower the Mind: 2001 Questions and Philosophical Thoughts to Inspire, Enlighten, and Empower Our World to Limitless Heights
by Errol A. Gibbs
Publisher Comments
Thoughts to Enlighten and Empower the Mind is a compilation of two thousand and one questions and philosophical thoughts extracted from the authors' seminal work, Five Foundations of Human Development. These thoughts follow the same chronology of... (read more)

List Price $10.95
Your price: $9.72
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
by Jane Bennett
Publisher Comments
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of... (read more)

List Price $74.95
Your price: $69.33
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Homosexuality: The Bible on Trial
Homosexuality: The Bible on Trial
by David Robert-John
Publisher Comments
In Our Gay Son, David Robert-John described how he came to realise that the Bible's view of homosexuality was at odds with modern understanding. That was an extremely unsettling discovery for an evangelical Christian whose beliefs were based entirely on... (read more)

List Price $3.99
Your price: $3.54
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire
by William Irwin
Publisher Comments
Can Lisbeth Salander be our guide to a postgender world? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Would Aristotle read Larsson's mystery books on a beach? Can revenge be ethical? What's the deal with all that coffee? Drawing a... (read more)

Your price: $9.99
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory
Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory
by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher Comments
Questions of pacifism and just war, which have preoccupied Christian thinkers from time to time over the past 1700 years, are given distinctive treatment in this book as it discusses biblical sources for the questions, builds on historical examples both... (read more)

List Price $17.60
Your price: $15.62
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings
Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings
by William Edelglass
Publisher Comments
William Edelglass is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marlboro College. Previously he taught at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala, India. His research focuses on Buddhist philosophy, environmental philosophy, and twentieth century... (read more)

List Price $24.95
Your price: $23.08
Google eBooks - Electronic

add to wish list


1 3 4 5 ... 346 next»


Browse the entire aisle:
by Title | by Author | by Price

There are 6920 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Google eBooks
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...



Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.