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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 Julian Baggini Publisher Comments "<BR> The Philosophers' Toolkit" provides all the intellectual equipment necessary to engage with and participate in philosophical argument, reading and reflection. Each of its 87 entries explains how to use an important concept or argumentative... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fridrich W. Nietzsche Synopsis An autobiography completed days before Nietzsche's mental collapse and in every way his last testament. It is a summary of a coming to terms with the work and conflicts of his life, a final statement of his position as philosopher, psychologist and anti... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Publisher Comments The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is concrete instruction in a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Polanyi Publisher Comments In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy. Polanyi... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kant Publisher Comments One of the cornerstone books of Western philosophy, here is Kant's seminal treatise, where he seeks to define the nature of reason itself and builds his own unique system of philosophical thought with an approach known as transcendental idealism. He... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Max O. Hallman Publisher Comments Philosophy made easy! TRAVERSING PHILOSOPHICAL BOUNDARIES walks you through the six philosophical concerns in language you can understand. Plus, it has study tools and review sections that let you make sure you're getting what you need to know. This... (read more) List Price $92.20 Your price $74.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Storr Publisher Comments A provocative and highly articulate meditation on solitude, Anthony Storr explores the connection between solitude and the creative personality. From the great to the obscure, Storr examines the uses that all kinds of people make of solitude in times of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Reiman Publisher Comments Description This best-selling text, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison," eighth edition, examines the premise that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish: from the definition of what constitutes a crime... (read more) List Price $39.60 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments This second edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (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) List Price $31.95 Your price $24.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Soren Kierkegaard Publisher Comments In Repetition Kierkegaard discusses the most profound implications of the unity of personhood and of identity within change-the repetition that creates the rebirth of God in the heart of man, brings the eternal into the present, and allows the past to... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William James Publisher Comments In his famous lectures at Oxford University in 1908 and 1909, William James made a sustained and eloquent case against absolute idealism and intellectualism in philosophy. Ever since Socrates and Plato, the philosophy of the absolute had held sway... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul R. Halmos Publisher Comments From the Reviews: "...He (the author) uses the language and notation of ordinary informal mathematics to state the basic set-theoretic facts which a beginning student of advanced mathematics needs to know. ...Because of the informal method of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Foucault Publisher Comments Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Reginald E Allen Publisher Comments Widely praised for its accessibility and its concentration on the metaphysical issues that are most central to the history of Greek philosophy, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle offers a valuable introduction to the works of the Presocratics, Plato,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Walzer Publisher Comments The distinguished political philosopher and author of the widely acclaimed Just and Unjust Wars analyzes how society distributes note just wealth and power but other social 'goods' like honor, education, work, free time--even love.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Wolf Publisher Comments Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Madison Publisher Comments The definitive exposition of the American Constitution, The Federalist Papers were considered by Thomas Jefferson to be the best commentary on the principle of government ever written. This collection of all eighty-five papers contains the complete... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich W. Nietzsche Publisher Comments The four early essays in Untimely Meditations are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of his later writings. They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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