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by Laurence Goldstein Publisher Comments Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question "how should I live?". This edition of Thoreau's political essays includes "Civil Disobedience", selections from Walden, and the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Milton A. Gonsalves Excerpt Fagothey's Right and Reason introduces the reader to the living tradition of the Aristotelian-Thomistic ethical system, applying the wisdom of that tradition to the discoveries and problems of contemporary life. This text incorporates whatever seems... (read more) List Price $89.25 Your price $58.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cindy Mur Publisher Comments An estimated twenty million animals are used for experiments in the United States every year. While researchers believe testing on animals is essential for maintaining human health, animal rights activists assert that it is immoral and unreliable. This... (read more) List Price $28.70 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lance Banning Publisher Comments This revisionary study offers a convincing new interpretation of Jeffersonian Republican thought in the 1970's. Based on extensive research in the newspapers and political pamphlets of the decade as well as the public and private writings of party... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul M Churchland Publisher Comments In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Margaret S Archer Publisher Comments Margaret Archer develops here her morphogenetic approach, heralded in Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), and applies it to the problem of structure and agency, that is, how we both shape society and are shaped by it. Her aim is to capture the interplay... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $20.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Howard Pospesel Publisher Comments Designed to make logic interesting and accessiblewithout sacrificing content or rigorthis classic introduction to contemporary propositional logic explains the symbolization of English sentences and develops formal-proof, truth-table, and truth-tree... (read more) List Price $63.20 Your price $51.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by N. A. Nikam Publisher Comments "A literary translation which is also easy and pleasing to read."—Ludwik Sternbach, Journal of the American Oriental Society... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jean Bodin Publisher Comments This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology. The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique. Bodin was primarily... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Robert Heilbroner Publisher Comments "This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future..." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $2.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alan W. Watts Publisher Comments An exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ronald M Glassman Publisher Comments Glassman contends that the quest for equality and social justice can and must be pursued within legal-democratic societies and that the quest for equality within the democratic framework is politically, economically, morally, and socially beneficial... (read more) Your price $113.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marcus Tullius Cicero Publisher Comments Cicero's THE REPUBLIC is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic. This is the first complete English translation in over 60 years and features a lucid introduction, a table of dates... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John G. Cottingham Publisher Comments Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today. * Features substantial and carefully chosen excerpts from all the... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price $42.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Diane Morgan Publisher Comments "Kant Trouble" offers a highly original and incisive reading of some of the lesser known and less lucid aspects of Kantian thought. Diane Morgan focuses her investigation on a radical reappraisal of Kant's writings on architecture, monarchy and faith in... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Linda E. Patrik Publisher Comments This anthology with introductions presents the major figures of existentialism, including Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, through their literary rather than philosophical writings. This approach makes for an anthology that... (read more) List Price $78.45 Your price $63.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gloria Fiero Publisher Comments Beginning with the birth of Christianity and of Buddhism, the second book of The Humanistic Tradition offers a wide-ranging look at the period from 0-1300 C.E. The book addresses the interaction between religion and culture in emerging Islamic... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Daniel Kolak Publisher Comments This exceptional anthology immerses students in such powerful ideas that they will find themselves not just reading about, but actually participating in, the kind of philosophical thinking that can change the way they look at their lives and the world... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price $60.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Martin Jay Publisher Comments Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. "The Dialectical Imagination... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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