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by Paul Rogat (ed.) Loeb  
Publisher Comments In this "Chicken Soup for the Liberal Soul," the most eloquent writers of our time offer words of inspiration and hope. Includes contributions from Maya Angelou, Tony Kushner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Nouwen, Marge Piercy, Desmond Tutu and others.... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ernest Becker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Publisher Comments A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author's views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or... (read more) Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert C. (ed.) Tucker Synopsis Compiles the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of classical Marxism.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wassily Kandinsky Publisher Comments Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Heidegger Publisher Comments Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Monroe C. Beardsley Publisher Comments At once a treatise for professionals and a guide for newcomers to the subject, Aesthetics is ideal both as an introductory survey of the literature on theories of art and beauty from earliest times to the present and as a text for courses in the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 Viktor E. Frankl Publisher Comments Psychiatrist Viktor Frankls memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michel Foucault
Powells.com Staff Pick When I was immersed in a sea of literary criticism a few years ago, Foucault, more than anyone else, caught my attention. Looking deeply at the roots of our behavior and our cultural attitudes, his examination of different kinds of power and control... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elaine Scarry
Publisher Comments In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from recent political arguments against it but also argues that beauty continually renews our search for truth and presses us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Phillips
Publisher Comments Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted black and forth across America, to cafe's and coffee... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Foucault Publisher Comments Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Schopenhauer Publisher Comments Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher Comments The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruno Latour Publisher Comments With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Watts Publisher Comments A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Publisher Comments Selected writings structured according to theme.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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