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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 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 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 Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of... (read more) List Price $17.00 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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by Benjamin Hoff Publisher Comments Combining the irresistible charm of the A. A. Milne classic and the enduring wisdom of ancient Eastern philosophical teachings, this delightfully enlightening sequel to "The Tao of Pooh" is sure to captivate the legions of loyal readers who have found... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $32.85 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by P. M. Forni Publisher Comments Most people would agree that thoughtful behavior and common decency are in short supply, or simply forgotten in hurried lives of emails, cellphones, and multi-tasking. In Choosing Civility, P. M. Forni identifies the twenty-five rules that are most... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Heidegger Publisher Comments A new, definitive translation of Heidegger's most important work.... (read more) Your price $22.95 (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 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 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 Bernie S. Siegel Publisher Comments "A new philosophy, a way of life, is not giuen for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort."--Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Privileged Listener The idea of the exceptional patient is not taught in medical... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (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 Flynn Publisher Comments Thomas Flynn's pithy account of existentialism and the existentialist movement aims right at the core of the philosophy, revealing and explaining the key themes and key thinkers.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James P. Carse Publisher Comments An extraordinary book that will dramatically change the way you experience life.<BR>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... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last 2 centuries, deals with master/slave morality and modern man's current moral practices; the evolution of man's feelings of guilt and bad conscience; and how ascetic ideals help... (read more) List Price $3.00 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leo Strauss Publisher Comments The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Santayana Publisher Comments Masterfully written discussion of the nature of beauty, form, expression; art, literature, and social sciences involved. Santayana covers the nature and materials of beauty, form, expression, and much more.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $1.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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