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by Bill Moyers  Publisher Comments At last, the paperback edition of the monumental best-seller (almost half a million copies in print!) that has changed the way Americans think about sickness and health -- the companion volume to the landmark PBS series of the same name. In a remarkably... (read more)  List Price $21.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Roger-pol Droit Publisher Comments Droit traces the history of the Western understanding of Buddhism following the late 18th-century beginnings of the translation of the Buddhist canon. He reveals how major 19th-century Western philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Schlegel, Hegel,... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Publisher Comments Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M Pirsig Publisher Comments The author who captured the spirit of an entire generation with his classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance now takes readers on a voyage of poignant and passionate philosophical exploration. "An intellectual rebel's book . . . the writing of a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by C. S. Lewis Publisher Comments C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Barrett Publisher Comments Why Is That Art? addresses common questions that viewers raise about contemporary art: Why is that art? Why is it in an art museum? Who says it's art? If I did this, would it be art? Why is it good? Covering a broad, diverse, and engaging sampling of... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom 
Powells.com Staff Pick If Michael Jordan offered a seminar on jumping, you can bet anyone with a pair of Nikes would want to attend. Just so, when Harold Bloom published a book called How to Read and Why it went straight onto the New York Times Bestseller list. As a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Barrett Publisher Comments Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments In Locke in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Locke's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Locke's writings; a brief... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bryan Magee Publisher Comments Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the strand of philosophical inquiry through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ken Wilber Publisher Comments Ever since the publication of his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, written when he was twenty-three, Ken Wilber has been identified as the most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times. This introductory sampler, designed to acquaint... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernie S. Siegel Publisher Comments Now with a new preface, the bestselling Peace, Love and Healing explores practical techniques to help readers tune into the positive and negative messages our minds give our bodies. In the nearly 10 years since this book's publication, researchers have... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martha Craven Nussbaum Publisher Comments Martha Nussbaum proposes a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Slater Publisher Comments In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society--violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national "addiction" to technology.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pierre-joseph Proudhon Publisher Comments New translation of one of the most notorious and influential critiques of private property ownership.... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John O'donohue Publisher Comments The Mystery of Friendship Light Is Generous If you have ever had occasion to be out early in the morning before the dawn breaks, you will have noticed that the darkest time of night is immediately before dawn. The darkness deepens and becomes more... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Boethius Publisher Comments An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Regan Publisher Comments MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH, Third Edition, is a collection of original essays by leading philosophers devoted to the major moral issues of the day, including abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, famine, war, suicide, the environment, and animal rights.... (read more) List Price $30.35 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dennis Q. Mcinerny Publisher Comments Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill-and it can properly be regarded as all three-logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human intelligence. In this... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mortimer Jerome Adler Publisher Comments Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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