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by Arundhati Roy  
Publisher Comments As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. The... (read more)  List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Samuel E. Stumpf Publisher Comments This comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers... (read more) List Price $87.50 Your price $71.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary E. Clark Publisher Comments This book is a powerful, interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Cole Kleene Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-386) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments First published in 1792, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" was received with a mixture of vociferous outrage (Wollstonecraft's detractors called her "a hyena in petticoats") and ardent enthusiasm. In what is the first major work of feminism, Mary... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zygmunt Bauman Publisher Comments Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $39.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chakravarthi Ram-prasad Publisher Comments Classical Indian schools of philosophy seek to attain a supreme end to existence--liberation from the cycle of lives. This book looks at four conceptions of liberation and the roles of analytic inquiry and philosophical knowledge in its attainment. The... (read more) Your price $160.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eliot Deutsch Publisher Comments In this newest book, the author presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. The author argues that especially today art not only... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard A. Spinello Publisher Comments Case Studies in Information Technology Ethics, Second Edition, is a versatile learning tool that offers a collection of diverse cases to help students and managers reflect on the multi-faceted ethical dilemmas that are emerging in the networked world... (read more) List Price $83.95 Your price $55.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Imre Lakatos Publisher Comments Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both agree upon the importance of revolutions in science, but... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donna J. Haraway Publisher Comments The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered — that truth is made, not found — is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Critchley Publisher Comments "On Humour" is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humor and about what it is to be human. Simon Critchley probes some of the most perennial features of humor, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Nola Publisher Comments Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"?... (read more) Your price $49.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Soren Kierkegaard 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... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M R Egidi Publisher Comments This collection of essays presents a systematic and up-to-date survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's philosophy, tracing the general humanistic leitmotiv to be found in his vast, varied output. The analysis covers the developments in... (read more) Your price $200.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Virginia (ed.) Held Publisher Comments When feminist philosophers first turned their attention to traditional ethical theory, its almost exclusive emphasis upon justice, rights, abstract rationality, and individual autonomy came under special criticism. Women’s experiences seemed to... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $27.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Davies Publisher Comments In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different... (read more) Your price $43.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Stuart Mill Publisher Comments Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the issue of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of Mill's enduring and eloquent treatise. In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions... (read more) Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Moller Okin Review Okin has written an engaging, serious, careful, and important work that raises the issues of women and politics in their most elemental and pertinent form. . . . A pioneering book.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Carruthers Publisher Comments Peter Carruthers argues that much of human conscious thinking is conducted in the medium of natural language sentences.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $40.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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