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Unweaving the Rainbow : Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (98 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins  
Publisher Comments Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to...
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkersFrom 1971 until 1984 at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally...
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Home Economics (87 Edition)
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments “My work has been motivated,” Wendell Berry has written, “by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.” In Home Economics, a collection of fourteen essays, Berry explores this...
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What If....Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy
by Peg Tittle Publisher Comments "What If . . . Collected Philosophical Thought Experiments" is a brief, inexpensive collection of over 100 classic and contemporary <<thought experiments>>, each with an accompanying commentary and thought provoking questions, which explore...
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Reveille for Radicals (69 Edition)
by Saul Alinsky Publisher Comments First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new Introduction and Afterword, this volume represents the fullest statement of the political philosophy and practical methodology of one of the most important figures in the history of American...
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Contemporary Political Philosophy 2ND Edition An
by Will Kymlicka Publisher Comments This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly growing literature on theories of justice and community. Each chapter covers a major school of contemporary political thought--utilitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism,...
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In Defense of Elitism
by William A Henry Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for "Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of...
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Rights of Man (Penguin American Library)
by Thomas Paine Publisher Comments No individual's writing better exemplifies this transformation of the language of social and political change than that of Thomas Paine (1737-1809). And no individual has a better claim to be the world's first international revolutionary. His writings...
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Humanistic Tradition, Book 5 : Romanticism Realism and the Nineteenth - Century World (5TH 06 Edition)
by Gloria K. Fiero Publisher Comments "The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced...
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Disuniting of America : Reflections on a Multicultural Society, Revised and Enlarged Edition ((3RD)98 Edition)
by Arthur M. Jr. Schlesinger Publisher Comments The classic image of the American nation -- a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality are submerged in democracy -- is being replaced by an orthodoxy that celebrates difference and abandons assimilation. While this...
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Mad in America : Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally ILL (02 Edition)
by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries, and quite possibly worse than asylum patients did in the early...
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Postmodernism : a Very Short Introduction (02 Edition)
by Christopher Butler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131) and index....
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition
by Willard V Quine Publisher Comments Several of these essays have been printed whole in journals; others are in varying degrees new. Two main themes run through them. One is the problem of meaning, particularly as involved in the notion of an analytic statement. The other is the notion of...
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Knowledge and Human Interests
by Jurgen Habermas Publisher Comments "For those concerned with the relationships between thought and action, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN INTERESTS will quickly be recognized as a brilliant book -- and a bold outline for a new social theory." (Times Literary Supplement)...
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Of Grammatology (Corrected Edition) ((Rev)97 Edition)
by Jacques Derrida Publisher Comments "One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy." -- J. Hillis Miller, Yale University Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in...
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Contemporary Introduction To Free Will (05 Edition)
by Robert Kane Publisher Comments Accessible to students with no background in the subject, Free Will provides an extensive and up-to-date overview of all the latest views on this central problem of philosophy. Opening with a concise introduction to the history of the problem of free...
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Two Cultures (93 Edition)
by C.p. Snow Publisher Comments The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterized by a split between two cultures--the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other--has a long history. The reissue of The Two Cultures and its...
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Victor E. Frankl Publisher Comments With more than 4 million copies in print in the English language alone, Man's Search for Meaning, the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during his three years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, is a...
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Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Human Agency and Language
by Charles Taylor Publisher Comments Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental...
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Discourse By Three Drunkards on Government (84 Edition)
by Nakae Chomin Publisher Comments "A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government "takes the form of a debate between a spokesman for Western ideals of democracy and progress, and an advocate for adherence to traditional samurai values. Their discussion is moderated by the imperturbable...
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