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The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx Synopsis This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.... (read more) List Price $33.60 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elements of Moral Philosophy, 6th Edition by James Rachels Publisher Comments Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, this concise, lively book takes the reader on an in-depth tour of the major moral theories, always illustrating abstract ideas with concrete examples. Separate, self-contained... (read more) List Price $77.95 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt Publisher Comments Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Man's Search for Meaning - With New Foreword (06 Edition) 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: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche Synopsis The text contains some of Nietzsche's most disturbing ideas, including the "slave revolt" in morality, which he claims began with the Jews and has now triumphed, and the "blond beast" that must erupt, which he claims to find behind all civilisation.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Philosophy Thales To Aristotle 3RD Edition by Reginald E Allen Publisher Comments Widely praised for its accessibility and its concentration on the metaphysical issues that are most central to the history of Greek philosophy, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle offers a valuable introduction to the works of the Presocratics, Plato,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Consolation of Philosophy Revised Edition by Boethius Publisher Comments ‘Why else does slippery Fortune change So much, and punishment more fit For crime oppress the innocent?’ Written in prison before his brutal execution in AD 524, Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy is a conversation between the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Basic Writings of Existentialism (04 Edition) by Gordon Marino Publisher Comments Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Publisher Comments 'NOW AVAILABLE- FULLY UPDATED SECOND EDITION OF DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.' From the vantage point of the colonized, the term "research" is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Science in Action : How To Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (87 Edition) by Bruno Latour Publisher Comments Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J Sandel Publisher Comments For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nations reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed bookbased on his legendary Harvard courseSandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Road To Serfdom -volume II ((Rev)07 Edition) by F.a. Hayek Publisher Comments An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls Publisher Comments This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Puzzles about Art: An Aesthetics Casebook by Margaret P Battin Publisher Comments The first casebook for use in courses in aesthetics, Puzzles about Art provides more than 180 real and hypothetical cases that illustrate important principles and theories in the philosophy of art. With 25 illustrations as well as concrete examples from... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings by John Perry Publisher Comments Introduction to Philosophy, Fourth Edition, is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. Building on the exceptionally successful tradition of previous editions, this edition for the first... (read more) List Price $82.95 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sourcebook in Asian Philosophy (91 Edition) by John M. Koller Excerpt Teachers and students have long felt a need for a convenient, one-volume collection of English translations of the basic texts that have shaped the major Asian philosophical traditions. A Sourcebook in Asian Philosophy is a response to this need. Our... (read more) List Price $109.75 Your price: $72.00 Used - Trade Paper
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