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by Richard C. Jeffrey Book News Annotation Jeffrey (1926-2002), a philosophy professor at Princeton, offers an introduction to formal logic for beginners, intended to familiarize them with a formal system of first-order logic and the scope and limits of formal methods. Earlier editions were... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by F. De P Castells Publisher Comments The Holy Royal Arch is the supreme degree in Freemasonry. God manifests Himself as a combination of three distinct powers: mind, will, emotion. This fact has inspired the Royal Arch and accounts for much of its symbolism. Contents: elements of the Royal... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by "three Initiates" Publisher Comments He was the father of the occult, the founder of astrology, the discoverer of alchemy. He was Hermes Trismegistus, and as the scribe of the gods of ancient Egypt, he possessed all divine knowledge... which he passed on to humanity, though only those who... (read more) Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Fidel Castro Synopsis Includes 1961 speech, "I Shall Be a Marxist-Leninist to the End of My Life", explaining why only a socialist revolution could bring about the profound changes Cuban working people had overthrown the Batista dictatorship to achieve.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by S Phineas Upham Publisher Comments This volume brings together for the first time thirteen recent interviews with the brightest names in contemporary philosophy, including W.V.O. Quine, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Hilary Putnam and John Rawls. The pieces are culled from the "Harvard... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bruce N. Waller Publisher Comments Covering important philosophical issues aimed at today's students, paired articles "talk to each other," thus setting up a clear "pro-con" format. Each pair of readings features an introduction with a list of "Points to Ponder" which focuses... (read more) List Price $29.65 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas I. White Publisher Comments "Discovering Philosophy" is a comprehensive introduction to philosophy that is specially designed for readers who are more comfortable with secondary, rather than primary sources. Using more accessible content that is unintimidating yet intellectually... (read more) List Price $46.70 Your price $38.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Patrick J. Hurley Publisher Comments Unsurpassed for its clarity, conciseness, and comprehensiveness, Hurley's market-leading A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC has established itself as the standard for introductory logic texts. Hailed in the first seven editions for an unwavering commitment... (read more) List Price $92.85 Your price $63.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Denis Diderot Publisher Comments This volume presents a selection of the political writings of one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. It contains the most important articles that Diderot contributed to the Encyclopedie, of which he was principal editor, the... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Susan Hayward Publisher Comments This collection includes quotations and excerpts on the nature of human beings from Goethe, Rilke, Plato, Montaigne, Whitman, Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Aristotle, Socrates, Ouspensky, Colin, Emerson, Keats, Blake, Eliot, Steiner, and works... (read more) Your price $35.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by John B Izzo Publisher Comments In the spirit of Robert Fulghum and Garrison Keillor, Izzo shows that while love may disappoint, work may not satisfy, and suffering will occur, people can still transform themselves by applying intentional focus to finding the wonder in the world and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Madhu Suri Prakash Publisher Comments Escaping Education challenges the modern certainty that education is a universal good and a human right. It opens doors to alternative landscapes of learning and living that still flourish at the grassroots, within the cultures of the uneducated, the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Anthony Weston Publisher Comments A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox offers a uniquely practical and hands-on introduction to ethics. Thoroughly optimistic, the book invites students to approach ethical issues with a reconstructive intent--to "break out of the box" in order to make room for... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $45.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary M. Litch Publisher Comments Do humans have free Will? What distinguishes morally right from morally wrong action? Does God exist? Does life have meaning? What is the ultimate nature of reality? What are the limits of human knowledge? "Philosophy through Film" offers a stimulating... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $27.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ray Jr. Perkins Publisher Comments Logic and Mr. Limbaugh is both an entertaining introduction to the elements of logic and a serious critique of the practical logic of a major conservative propagandist. Professor Perkins takes 50 examples of logical reasoning from Rush's statements... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arpad Szakolczai Publisher Comments This book is the first to jointly analyze Weber and Foucault and to make effective links between their lives and works. It will be valuable reading to students and teachers of sociology and philosophy.... (read more) Your price $183.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $30.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dieter Rucht Publisher Comments Although living conditions have improved throughout history, protest seems to have increased to the point of becoming a normal phenomenon in modern societies. Contributors to this volume examine how and why this is the case and argue that although... (read more) Your price $69.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alison Bailey Publisher Comments The most comprehensive anthology of feminist philosophy available, this first edition reader brings together over 55 of the most influential and time-tested works to have been published in the field of feminist philosophy. Featuring perspectives from... (read more) List Price $45.65 Your price $37.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alex Rosenberg Publisher Comments Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction introduces all the main themes in the philosophy of science, including the nature of causation, explanation, laws, theory, models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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