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Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark R. Levin Publisher Comments AN INTELLECTUALLY BRACING NEW VOLUME ON AMERICAS TRANSFORMATION AND THE CLASH BETWEEN CONSTITUTIONALISM AND UTOPIANISM—FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIBERTY & TYRANNY , MARK R. LEVIN Hailed by Rush Limbaugh as “... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover 
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The Zen Reader by Thomas F. Cleary Publisher Comments Founded by Bodhidharma centuries ago in China, Zen and its teachings have since spread widely, exerting a tremendous cultural influence not only across Asia, but also the modern West. To this day, Zen inspires young and old, from all walks of life, to... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones by Robert Rowland Smith Publisher Comments What if you could have your first kiss again, but this time see it through the eyes of Shakespeare? Or learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein? Or take your driving test with Jack Kerouac? In Driving with Plato, former Oxford don Robert Rowland Smith lets... (read more) Your price: $12.99 New - Trade Paper
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On the Intrinsic Value of Everything by Scott Davison Publisher Comments On the Intrinsic Value of Everything is an illuminating introduction to fundamental questions in ethics. How--and to what--we assign value, whether it is to events or experiences or objects or people, is central to ethics. Something is intrinsically... (read more) Your price: $24.50 New - Trade Paper
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Art's Emotions: Ethics, Expression, and Aesthetic Experience by Damien Freeman Publisher Comments How is that artistic works have the power to move the human heart? Why does Manet's Woman with a Parrot evoke reverie, and an Edward Elgar cello concerto, nostalgia? What is the value of such experiences? Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking... (read more) Your price: $34.50 New - Trade Paper
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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
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Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate (Basic Bioethics) by Christine Overall Publisher Comments In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The New Intuitionism by Jill Graper (edt) Hernandez Publisher Comments Since his 2004 publication of the book The Good in the Right, Robert Audi has been at the forefront of the current resurgence of interest in intuitionism the idea that human beings have an intuitive sense of right and wrong in ethics. The New... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Concept of the Beautiful by Agnes Heller Publisher Comments The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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A Heart Blown Open: The Life & Practice of Zen Master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi by Keith Martin-smith Synopsis Denis Kelly’s life is part Hunter S. Thompson, part Timothy Leary, and part Eckhart Tolle. From his beginnings in an abusive and alcoholic home in Wisconsin to becoming a major force in the counterculture movement, and then from a life on the run... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011 by Martha C Nussbaum Publisher Comments This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, a philosopher and high profile public intellectual who comments often on issues in philosophy, politics, gender equality, economics, and the law. Many of her engagements have... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Kierkegaard's Journals & Notebooks #05: Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 5, Journals Nb6-Nb10 by Niels Jorgen (edt) Cappelorn Publisher Comments For over a century, the Danish thinker Sren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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Ethics and War: An Introduction. Steven P. Lee (Cambridge Applied Ethics) by Steven P. Lee Publisher Comments What are the ethical principles underpinning the idea of a just war and how should they be adapted to changing social and military circumstances? In this book, Steven P. Lee presents the basic principles of just war theory, showing how they evolved... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century by A. C. Grayling Publisher Comments Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so are fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics transforming our world now. In Ideas That Matter, renowned philosopher A. C. Grayling provides... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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Immanuel Kant (Radical Thinkers) by Lucien Goldmann Publisher Comments Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment. Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Eli Friedlander Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with little more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp of his “unclassifiable” genius. Eli... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem by Mark Balaguer Publisher Comments In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free will and determinism, Mark Balaguer argues that the philosophical problem of free will boils down to anopen scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neuralevents. In the course... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $19.25 New - Trade Paper
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Models and Cognition by Jonathan A. Waskan Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $20.25 New - Trade Paper
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War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War 1939-40 (Radical Thinkers) by Jean-paul Sartre Publisher Comments During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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