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Benjamin Franklinsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0030098904 (0-03-009890-4)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernityby Stephen ToulminISBN 0029326311 (0-02-932631-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity'Book summary:Toulmin offers a radically new interpretation of Western intellectual history that humanizes our conception of modernity and reconciles the precision of scientific theory with the reality of human experience. [via]
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A Discourse on Methodby DescartesISBN 0023671602 (0-02-367160-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and What Is Enlightenment?by Immanuel KantISBN 0023078251 (0-02-307825-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and What Is Enlightenment?'Book summary:The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy, argues for an a priori basis for morality. Where the Critique of Pure Reason laid out Kant's metaphysical and epistemological ideas, this relatively short, primarily meta-ethical, work was intended to outline and define the concepts and arguments shaping his future work The Metaphysics of Morals. However, the latter work is much less read than the Groundwork.
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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals Kantby Immanuel Kant, Thomas Kingsmill AbbottISBN 0023001402 (0-02-300140-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals Kant'Book summary:We shall therefore have to investigate a priori the possibility of a categorical imperative, as we have not in this case the advantage of its reality being given in experience, so that [the elucidation of] its possibility should be requisite only for its explanation, not for its establishment. In the meantime it may be discerned beforehand that the categorical imperative alone has the purport of a practical law. [via]
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshireby Amanda ForemanISBN 0002556685 (0-00-255668-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'Book summary:Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century It Girl. She came from one of England's richest and most landed families (the late Princess Diana was a Spencer too) and married into another. She was beautiful, sensitive, and extravagant--drugs, drink, high-profile love affairs, and even gambling counted among her favorite leisure-time activities. Nonetheless, she quickly moved from a world dominated by social parties to one focused on political parties. The duchess was an intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for the character of Lady Teazle in Richard Sheridan's famous play The School for Scandal. But her weaknesses marked the last part of her life. By 1784, for one, Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands," and her creditors dogged her until her death.
Biographer Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that surrounded the personal relationships of the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into the duke's bed and the duchess's heart). Foreman is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. An impressive debut, in every sense. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusionsby Francis WheenISBN 0007140967 (0-00-714096-7)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Timesby Gale E. ChristiansonISBN 0029051908 (0-02-905190-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: With a Supplement, a Dialogueby David HumeISBN 0023531304 (0-02-353130-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Isaac Newtonby James GleickISBN 0007163177 (0-00-716317-7)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaac Newton'Book summary:It is a brave writer who tackles a biography of the world famous pioneer mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton and James Gleick has acquitted himself superbly well in his new bookIsaac Newton. Accolades to Newton were piling up even during his early lifetime in the 17th century when such fame was usually confined to royalty, popes and archbishops and certainly not to ordinary mortals born in 1642 of yeomen stock in deepest rural England. According to Gleick, Newton was the first person whose attainment "lay in the realm of the mind" to have a state funeral and be buried in Westminster Abbey. A Latin inscription proclaimed his "strength of mind almost divine" with "mathematical principles peculiarly his own" and declared that "mortals rejoice that there has existed so great an ornament of the human race"--not bad for a farm boy from Lincolnshire.
Sensibly, Gleick, a well-known American science writer and author of the acclaimed Chaos, focuses a great deal on how such a transformation could happen to anyone with such humble beginnings at that time in British history. There is no doubt Newton's innate talent and genius but he was also lucky in that he had excellent schooling and through the intervention of a relative he was able to go to the University of Cambridge and went on to stay there most of his professional life. His mother supplied him with "a chamber pot; a notebook of 140 blank pages... a quart bottle and ink to fill it, candles for many long nights, and a lock for his desk". Try sending your child to university so equipped today.
Of course the critical achievements of Newton's life were in his scientific achievements and here is the real problem: how to explain them for the general reader when even academic mathematicians today find much of the detail of Newton's work hard to comprehend. This is largely because Newton did not have today's familiar technical language or standard units of measurement available to him; he really was exploring terra incognita and feeling his way. But this is exactly what Gleick manages to get over so well and there is so much more. Aside from it being an eminently accessible biography, illustrations, extensive notes, bibliography and index make this an invaluable source for anyone who wants to enter the wonderful and arcane world of Sir Isaac Newton. --Douglas Palmer [via]
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard Bach, Russell MunsonISBN 0025045415 (0-02-504541-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'Book summary:"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Joseph Banks: A Lifeby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0002173506 (0-00-217350-6)
Hardcover, C. Harvill
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Living, Loving and Learningby Leo F. BuscagliaISBN 0030615526 (0-03-061552-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living, Loving and Learning'Book summary:Living Loving and Learning is a delightful collection of Leo Buscaglia's informative and amusing lectures, which were delivered worldwide between 1970 and 1981. Parts of them have appeared in books and magazine articles, but this is the only complete collection.[via]More editions of Living, Loving and Learning:
Locke's Two Treatises of Governmentby Richard AshcraftISBN 0044453388 (0-04-445338-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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New Organon and Related Writingsby Francis BaconISBN 0023033800 (0-02-303380-0)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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On Historyby I. KantISBN 002307860X (0-02-307860-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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On Human Nature and the Understandingby David HumeISBN 0020658303 (0-02-065830-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Perpetual Peaceby Immanual KantISBN 0023077506 (0-02-307750-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 000100039X (0-00-100039-X)
Softcover, Laurier Books Ltd
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max WeberISBN 0043310699 (0-04-331069-9)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of Historyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 0023513209 (0-02-351320-9)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Selected Poetry and Prose: A Popeby Alexander PopeISBN 0030832624 (0-03-083262-4)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 0025648500 (0-02-564850-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu, Dagao ChuISBN 0042990114 (0-04-299011-4)
Softcover, Unwin Paperbacks
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence Sterne, James A. WorkISBN 0024300306 (0-02-430030-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the Westby John Ralston SaulISBN 0029277256 (0-02-927725-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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