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Zizek: A Reader's Guide by Kelsey Wood Publisher Comments Slavoj ?i?ek is widely regarded as the most significant and provocative thinker of our age. He integrates concepts from the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan with Hegel's dialectical method in philosophy, for a radically new vision of human nature... (read more) Your price: $99.95 New - Hardcover 
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Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo Publisher Comments Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of Hagakure, a series of texts written by an eighteenth-century samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It is a window into the samurai mind, illuminating the concept of bushido (the Way of the Warrior), which... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Blackwell Public Philosophy #36: The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys by David Benatar Publisher Comments While the manifestation of sexism against women is widely acknowledged, few people take seriously the idea that males are also the victims of many and quite serious forms of sex discrimination.So unrecognized is this form of sexism that the mere mention... (read more) Your price: $89.95 New - Hardcover
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Wandering Beyond the Darkness by Ian Barrett Publisher Comments Books of this importance and intelligence come along rarely. Wandering Beyond the Darkness is an absolute must-read for anyone who struggles with faith, love, and the continuum of life after death. Whether we are nineteen or ninety, we all search for... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi Publisher Comments When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes (Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Witold Gombrowicz Publisher Comments In a small literary gem full of sardonic wit, brilliant insights, and provocative criticism Witold Gombrowicz discusses Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Heidegger in six "one-hour" essays—and addresses Marxism in a "fifteen... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Mass Market
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The Third Turning of the Wheel: Wisdom of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra by Reb Anderson Synopsis In his previous book, Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson Roshi described how we must become thoroughly grounded in conventional truth through the practice of compassion before we can receive the teachings of the... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Lover by Sharon Kaye Publisher Comments Be warned--in your journey through this volume you will encounter many true stories. Some will make you laugh, others could make you cry, and all are enough to thoroughly embarrass the authors. These stories would never be allowed to see the light of day... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Testing the Limit: Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Francois-david Sebbah Publisher Comments In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what... (read more) Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Publisher Comments A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II: 1983-1984 (Lectures at the College de France) by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous years lectures in exploring the notion of “truth-telling” in politics to establish a... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Nietzsche and the Shadow of God by Didier Franck Publisher Comments In Nietzsche and the Shadow of God (Nietzsche et lombre de Dieu), his study of Nietzsches integral philosophical corpus, Franck revisits the fundamental concepts of Nietzsches thought, from the death of God and the will to power, to the body as the seat... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reading Aristotle: Physics VII.3: "What Is Alteration?" by Stefano (edt) Maso Publisher Comments This volume presents the results of the ESAP-HYELE conference on "Aristotle, Physics 7.3: What is Alteration?", which took place in Vitznau, Switzerland, 12–15 February 2007. The contributors are part of a team of Aristotelian scholars... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Trade Paper
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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
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The Third Turning of the Wheel by Reb Anderson Publisher Comments In his previous book, Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson Roshi described how we must become thoroughly grounded in conventional truth through the practice of compassion before we can receive the teachings of the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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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 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Quine Versus Davidson by Gary Kemp Publisher Comments Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. So far as language and meaning are concerned, Willard Van Orman Quine... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951 by Brian (edt) Mcguiness Publisher Comments This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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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
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Publisher Comments The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotles most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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