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General
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The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
by Tavis Smiley
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Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class... (read more)

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    Rhetoric

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    Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

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    The Meaning of Friendship

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Ethics
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
by Michael J Sandel
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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight... (read more)

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Atheism and Humanism
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
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A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more)

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Anthologies
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Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis
Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis
by Steven Katz
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"Valuable....Provocative."--Religious Studies Review "Excellent....Careful reading by the untrained will yield a rich reward....Scattered throughout are gems of practical wisdom....An important contribution to the field of mystical studies."--Cross... (read more)

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Aesthetics
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
by Matthew B. Crawford
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A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting... (read more)

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Logic
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William James Lectures #1955: How to Do Things with Words
William James Lectures #1955: How to Do Things with Words
by J L Austin
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John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the... (read more)

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Surveys
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Open Court Library of Philosophy)
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Open Court Library of Philosophy)
by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reprints Schopenhauer's nineteenth-century philosophical treatise on the nature of causation in the physical world.... (read more)

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Dictionaries
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
by Robert Audi
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This is the most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English. It contains over 4,000 entries, which range in length from 100 to 4,000 words. The Dictionary has been written by an international team of over 350... (read more)

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The World As Will & Idea, Abridged in One Volume
The World As Will & Idea, Abridged in One Volume
by Arthur Schopenhauer
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The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, and the only lasting good through ascetic renunciation. Unique in... (read more)

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Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies #2: From Modernism to Postmodernism
Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies #2: From Modernism to Postmodernism
by Lawrence E Cahoone
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This revised and expanded second edition of Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism.... (read more)

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