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by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein  Publisher Comments Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers; it's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some included Big Ideas are... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Christopher Hitchens 
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most informed journalists in the country (he seems to have been everywhere, met everyone, and read everything), he is also one of the most entertaining. His command of the language is legendary; his wit ferocious. His skill in marshalling... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Dewey Publisher Comments Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey'... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry G. Frankfurt
Powells.com Staff Pick Lying is a craft, but bullshitting is an art. "Hence the familiar notion of the 'bullshit artist,'" moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt reminds us in this fun, erudite treatise. On Bullshit surely ranks as one of the best gift books to come along in quite... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Voltaire Publisher Comments Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Pascal's Wager, Buridan's Ass, Wittgenstein's Beetle in the Box--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling. Now, eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn offers the most authoritative and up-to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James P Carse Synopsis An extraordinary book that will dramatically change the way you experience life. Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefied -- games with winners and losers, a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Christophe Hitchens Publisher Comments From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jay Allison Publisher Comments “A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty Americans—from the famous to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Mautner Publisher Comments With contributions from over a hundred leading philosophers, full cross-references, and unique usage notes, this is an ideal reference for any student or teacher of philosophy, or anyone with a general interest. Special features include: -- Clear and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sam Harris Publisher Comments This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Baggini Publisher Comments 'What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one profound and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Taylor Publisher Comments What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we--in the West, at least--largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sam Harris
Powells.com Staff Pick Sam Harris is a wonderful, courageous independent thinker. His Letter to a Christian Nation is a dynamic exposé of the hypocrisy inherent in organized religion. Recommended by Adrienne, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Tarnas Synopsis " This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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