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The Sense of Beauty
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The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Christine De Pizan Publisher Comments The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the...
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Book of Tea
by Kazuko Okakura Publisher Comments Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F. Bleiler....
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Malice
by Francois Flahault Publisher Comments This book is about the inner roots of malice. It does not treat evil as a force external to human nature, as some kind of theological mystery. Malice is considered here as an anthropological fact. What stops us from examining this type of fact is our...
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
by Baltasar Gracian Publisher Comments The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius....
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Teach Yourself Marx (Teach Yourself)
by Gill Hands Publisher Comments Understand Marx inside and out Groundbreaking and far-reaching as they are, the theories and ideas of Karl Marx are often confusing. "Teach Yourself Marx," however, makes clear sense of them all, providing you with easy-to-understand explanations of...
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
by Rebecca Solnit 
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The Basic Kafka
by Franz Kafka Publisher Comments Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters....
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The Way of the Wolf
by Martin Bell Publisher Comments Martin Bell's imaginative collection of stories, poems, songs, and thoughts on the parables of Jesus inspires the reader to consider and celebrate such things as love, forgiveness, acceptance, salvation, and commitment....
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Bertrand Russell
by A J Ayer Publisher Comments With extraordinary concision and clarity, A.J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Betrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy....
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Utopia (Yale Nota Bene)
by Thomas More Publisher Comments Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation of "Utopia", one of the most important works of European humanism. Professor Miller includes a helpful Introduction that outlines some of...
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The Will to Believe, Human Immortality
by William James Publisher Comments Two books bound together, from religious period of one of the most renowned and representative thinkers. Written for laymen, thus easy to understand, it is penetrating and brilliant as well. Illuminations of age-old religious questions from a pragmatic...
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Very Short Introductions #43: Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
by Simon Critchley Publisher Comments In this enlightening new Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley shows us that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often ignored by the analytic...
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Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from the Parerga (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by Arthur Schopenhauer Publisher Comments One of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century, Schopenhauer is best known for his writings on pessimism. In this 1851 essay collection, he offers concise statements of the unifying principles of his thinking. These essays offer an accessible...
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Original Dwelling Place: Zen Buddhist Essays
by Robert Aitken Publisher Comments In this collection of twenty-three essays, Robert Aitken retraces the origins of American Zen Buddhism and provides readings of influential texts. Reflecting on death, on marriage, and on Zen practice, Aitken always points out the path to pleasure in the...
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Republic
by Plato And Davies Publisher Comments Plato advocates a life organised by reason rather than desire and appetite in this classic work....
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Critique of Pure Reason (03 Edition)
by Kant Publisher Comments One of the cornerstone books of Western philosophy, here is Kant's seminal treatise, where he seeks to define the nature of reason itself and builds his own unique system of philosophical thought with an approach known as transcendental idealism. He...
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Introducing Derrida 2ND Edition
by Jeff Collins Publisher Comments Offers a starting point for an intellectual adventure that threatens to disturb some of the most comfortable habits of contemporary thought....
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The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics)
by Barbara Miller Publisher Comments "The Bhagavad-Gita" has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma...
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Closer To Truth Challenging Current Beli
by Robert L Kuhn Synopsis Fifty internationally renowned scientists and scholars challenge all manner of current belief, from general consciousness to the Big Bang, in this official companion volume to the groundbreaking new PBS series....
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