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by Trudy Govier  Publisher Comments Did the world change on September 11, 2001? For those who live outside of New York or Washington, life's familiar pace persists and families and jobs resume their routines. Yet everything seems different because of the dramatic disturbance in our sense... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Merrie Bergmann Publisher Comments This leading text for symbolic or formal logic courses presents all techniques and concepts with clear, comprehensive explanations, and includes a wealth of carefully constructed examples. Its flexible organization (with all chapters complete and self... (read more) List Price $123.25 Your price $68.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Boylan Publisher Comments A core text for undergraduate courses in Ethical Theory or a supplement for Applied Ethics courses. This text examines major moral theories from the worldview perspective, teaching students the major tenets of the principal moral theories, and the... (read more) List Price $42.40 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Paul (ed.) Wolff Publisher Comments "A deep and provocative discussion of some of the most fundamental issues in political philosophy, written crisply, with candor, in a style that I find very winning. It is a most useful book, and a very good one."--Carl Cohen, author of "Communism... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Sheppard Publisher Comments Why do people read novels, go to the theater, or listen to beautiful music? Do we seek out aesthetic experiences simply because we enjoy them--or is there another, deeper, reason we spend our leisure time viewing or experiencing works of art? Aesthetics,... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan L. (ed.) Feagin Publisher Comments Can we ever claim to understand a work of art or be objective about it? Why have cultures thought it important to separate out a group of objects and call them art? What does aesthetics contribute to our understanding of the natural landscape? Are the... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Tomassi Publisher Comments "Logic" brings elementary logic out of the academic darkness into the light of day. Paul Tomassi makes logic fully accessible for anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. This book is written in a patient and user-... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $30.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The End of Nature comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of who we are We are on the verge of crossing the line from born to made, from created to built. Sometime in the next... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Graham Priest Publisher Comments Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sian (ed.) Miles Publisher Comments Philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist -- Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a great variety of subjects ranging from classical... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Lachs Publisher Comments The essays collected in this volume and written between 1959-1980 clearly belong to professional philosophy in both tone and context. Yet their ultimate aim is to explore larger problems and to set the groundwork for dealing with them. For the focus of... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard P Kainz Publisher Comments Kainz clarifies and elaborates on material from Hegel's own lectures on the history of modern philosophy.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Publisher Comments Abbot and founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, the Venerable Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995) was one of the most influential modern Zen masters. Devoted to establishing Zen Buddhism as a vital spiritual practice in the West, he inspired... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Ignatieff Publisher Comments "Michael Ignatieff has written a sober yet chilling account of the issues facing liberal democracies in the face of modern international terrorism. In a surgical analysis he describes the challenges facing their leaders and citizens. His warning of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph D Sawyer Publisher Comments A condensed version of the timeless classic that imparts the knowledge and skills to overcome every adversary in war, in work or in life.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Kivy Publisher Comments Now reissued with substantial new material, The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, and its huge influence on British aesthetics. Peter Kivy's book is a seminal work... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $65.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Wolff Synopsis Wolff and Resnick provide a unique, balanced explication of the differing assumptions, logical structures, and arguments of neoclassical and Marxian economics. They address broader aspects of evaluating or choosing between alternative theories, but their... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Kingdon Publisher Comments Kingdon explores how the American polity is different from that of other countries - particularly other Western democracies - examining just how this uniqueness came about. It invites both introductory and advanced students to appreciate the roots and... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price $27.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Brand Publisher Comments Although Hume insists that sympathy, or fellow feeling, is fundamental to moral judgment, he recognizes that sympathetically acquired feelings vary in strength according to a number of circumstances that are irrelevant to an impartial spectator. How can... (read more) List Price $165.00 Your price $140.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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