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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke

ISBN 0060834838 (0-06-083483-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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PAULO COELHO'S enchanted novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicityand inspired wisdom . is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egiptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids.... [via]
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The Alchemist/a Fable About Following Your Dream
by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke

ISBN 0062502174 (0-06-250217-4)
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Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Aleph and Other Stories
by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley

ISBN 0142437883 (0-14-243788-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

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All the Power in the World
by Peter K. Unger

ISBN 0195155610 (0-19-515561-0)
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Alvin Plantinga: Profiles No. 5
by J. Tomberlin

ISBN 9027721068 (90-277-2106-8)
Softcover, Kluwer Academic Pub

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Asi Hablaba Zaratustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 9583000086 (958-30-0008-6)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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The Concept of Identity
by Eli Hirsch

ISBN 0195074742 (0-19-507474-2)
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The Concept of Mind
by Gilbert Ryle

ISBN 0090238923 (0-09-023892-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson's University Library

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Confessions
by St. Augustine

ISBN 014044114X (0-14-044114-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood. Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains many references and allusions that are easily understood only with background information about the ancient social and intellectual setting. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context. The religious and philosophical value of The Confessions is unquestionable--now modern readers will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this cla [via]
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The Confessions
by Garry Wills, St Augustine

ISBN 0143039512 (0-14-303951-2)
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Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustines Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Willss translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustines Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book.

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and luxurious packaging

Features a new introduction by the author

Only four of the thirteen chapters of Garry Wills's translation of Confessions have appeared previously
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The Confessions
by Henry Chadwick, St Augustine

ISBN 0192817795 (0-19-281779-5)
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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood.
Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains many references and allusions that are easily understood only with background information about the ancient social and intellectual setting. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context.
The religious and philosophical value of The Confessions is unquestionable--now modern readers will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this classic. [via]
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Confessions of a Sinner
by St Augustine

ISBN 0146002032 (0-14-600203-2)
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Book 1.His infancy and boyhood up to age 14. He speaks of his inability to remember the sins he almost certainly committed during this time. Children serve as insight into what man would be if it weren't for being socialized into waiting one's turn. Book 2.Augustine finds himself amongst bad companions, which leads him to commit theft and succumb to lust. Augustine comes from a good family and has never wanted for food. In this chapter, he explores the question of why he and his friends stole pears when he had many better pears of his own. He explains the feelings he experienced as he ate the pears and threw the rest away to the pigs. Augustine argues that he most likely would not have stolen anything had he not been in the company of others who could share in his sin. Some insight into group mentality is given. Book 3.His studies at Carthage, his conversion to Manichaeism and continued indulgences in lust between 16 and 19. The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1000 years of the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries. In the work St. Augustine writes about how much he regrets having led a sinful and immoral life. He discusses his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology. He writes about Nebridius's role in helping to persuade him that astrology was not only incorrect but evil, and St. Ambrose's role in his conversion to Christianity. He shows intense sorrow for his sexual sins, and writes on the importance of sexual morality. The books were written as prayers to God, thus the title, based on the Psalms of David. [via]
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Confessions of Saint Augustine
by St. Augustine

ISBN 002064230X (0-02-064230-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Confessions of Augustine written by legendary philosopher and theologian Saint Augustine is an autobiographical work which is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Confessions of Augustine is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Saint Augustine is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Confessions of Augustine would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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Conocer a Dios
by Deepak Chopra

ISBN 9681104560 (968-11-0456-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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De Anima/on the Soul
by Aristotle, Hugh Lawson-Tangred

ISBN 0140444718 (0-14-044471-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms the enormous range of their behaviour, their powers and their perceptual sophistication convinced him of the inadequacy both of a materialist reduction and of a Platonic sublimation of the soul. In De Anima, he sought to set out his theory of the soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced both a masterpiece of philosophical insight and a psychology of perennially fascinating subtlety. [via]
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Descartes: The Project Of Pure Enquiry
by Bernard Williams

ISBN 0140138404 (0-14-013840-4)
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Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in the history of philosophy.

This is a classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers. Bernard Williams not only analyzes Descartes' project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search. With acute insight, he demonstrates how Descartes' Meditations are not merely a description but the very enactment of philosophical thought and discovery. Williams covers all of the key areas of Descartes' thought, including God, the will, the possibility of knowledge, and the mind and its place in nature. He also makes profound contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and philosophy generally. This is essential reading for any student of philosophy.

This reissue includes a new foreword by John Cottingham.
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Develop Your Psychic Abilities
by Litany Burns

ISBN 0132054361 (0-13-205436-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Discurso Del Metodo / the Speech Way
by Rene Descartes

ISBN 9500378345 (950-03-7834-5)
Softcover, Losada/Argentina

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El Discurso del metodo es uno de los pocos libros que han cambiado la historia del mundo; la renovacion que provoco en la filosofia no ha dejado de tener repercusiones. Las conclusiones a las que llega tras el aserto de la duda como razon principal de todo pensamiento se han convertido en reglas: no admitir como verdadero mas que lo evidente; dividir cada dificultad en la mayor parte posible de veces; ordenar los pensamientos de lo mas simple a lo mas complicado; y hacer recuentos frecuentes de las ideas para estar seguros de que nada se ha omitido, son las normas que rigen la conducta y la filosofia, a partir de entonces hasta la actualidad. A una esclarecedora Introduccion del filosofo argentino Francisco Romero se agrega, en esta nueva edicion del Discurso, Un punto de vista acerca de Descartes, del escritor frances Paul Valery, que cierra su contribucion con estas palabras: Por eso he insistido sobre la personalidad fuerte y temeraria del gran Descartes, cuya filosofia, tal vez, tiene menos precio para nosotros que la idea que nos presenta de un magnifico y memorable Yo. Rene Descartes, vastago de una familia distinguida y acomodada de magistrados y militares, nacio en l596 en La Haye, ciudad de Turena, Francia, y murio en Estocolmo en l650. En 1637 publico el Discurso del metodo [via]
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Dividing Reality
by Eli Hirsch

ISBN 0195111427 (0-19-511142-7)
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day Being the Papyrus of Ani (Royal Scribe of the Divine Offerings), Written and Illustrated circa 1250 B.C.E., by Scribes and Artists Unknown, Including the Balance of Chapters of the Books...
by Eva Von Dassow, James Wasserman, Ogden Goelet, Raymond Oliver Faulkner

ISBN 9774244346 (977-424-434-6)
Hardcover, American University in Cairo Press

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El Libro De Arena
by Borges

ISBN 9500401908 (950-04-0190-8)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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El pendulo de foucault
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 9872060940 (987-20609-4-0)
Softcover, Sudamericana

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El profeta
by Kahlil Gibran

ISBN 9501702162 (950-17-0216-2)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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Breve obra, donde cada una de las frases pronunciadas por su protagonista, tiene la virtud de movilizaer al lector, promover su propia reflexion y abrirlo a un enfoque totalizador de la vida. [via]
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Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence
by Joseph Chilton Pearce

ISBN 006250732X (0-06-250732-X)
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Freedom Evolves
by Daniel Dennett

ISBN 0142003840 (0-14-200384-0)
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Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers yes! Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original
argumentsdrawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophythat far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.

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Identity, Consciousness and Value
by Peter K. Unger

ISBN 0195079175 (0-19-507917-5)
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The Illustrated Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke, Moebius

ISBN 006019250X (0-06-019250-X)
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Amazon.co.uk Review Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sense a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." [via]
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Kant
by Roger Scruton

ISBN 0192875779 (0-19-287577-9)
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction
by Roger Scruton

ISBN 0192801996 (0-19-280199-6)
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Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton--a well-known and controversial philosopher in his own right--tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.

About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam. [via]
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Las Ensenanzas De Don Juan
by Carlos Castaneda

ISBN 9681601696 (968-16-0169-6)
Softcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors

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Libertarian Accounts of Free Will
by Randolph K. Clarke

ISBN 0195306422 (0-19-530642-2)
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Logic & Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950
by Bertrand Russell

ISBN 0041640012 (0-04-164001-2)
Hardcover, G. Allen & Unwin

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No online description is currently available. If you would like to receive information about this title, please email Routledge at info@routledge-ny.com [via]
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Magicians of God: Faith Healers in the Philippines and around the World
by Jaime T. Licauco

ISBN 9712708845 (971-27-0884-5)
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Martin Heidegger
by George Steiner

ISBN 0140055010 (0-14-005501-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books

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Meditations on First Philosophy
by Rene Descartes

ISBN 002367170X (0-02-367170-X)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co

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Metaphysics: The Logical Approach
by Jose A. Benardete

ISBN 0192892037 (0-19-289203-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Moral Appraisability: Puzzles, Proposals, and Perplexities
by Ishtiyaque Haji

ISBN 0195114744 (0-19-511474-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility
by John Martin Fischer

ISBN 0195179552 (0-19-517955-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Nietzsche: Volume III The Will to Power As Knowledge and As Metaphysics Volume IV Nihilism/2 Volumes in 1
by Martin Heidegger

ISBN 0060637943 (0-06-063794-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A landmark discussion between two great thinkers--the second (combining volumes III and IV) of two volumes inquiring into the central issues of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. [via]
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The Non-Reality of Free Will
by Richard Double

ISBN 0195064976 (0-19-506497-6)
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On Time and Being
by Martin Heidegger

ISBN 0061319414 (0-06-131941-4)
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The Oxford Handbook of Free Will
by Robert Kane

ISBN 0195178548 (0-19-517854-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Philosophical Investigations: The English Text of the Third Edition
by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe

ISBN 0024288101 (0-02-428810-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Written by one of the century's truly great thinkers, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is a remarkable--and surprisingly approachable--collection of insights, statements, and nearly displayed thinking habits of the philosopher's work on language, symbols, categories, and a host of other topics. Organized into nearly 700 short observations, this book is a treasure trove for anyone who needs to think carefully about objects, categories, and symbols, especially in relation to structured logic applications in computer programming.
The short (and sometimes aphoristic) observations in Philosophical Investigations allow the reader to ponder basic questions on what describes a category, how language works in everyday situations, and how symbols function to represent our world.
Originally a series of notes to himself as he lectured on philosophy, the book is a brilliant grab bag of thought and example. Often framed as a question ("How do I recognize that this is red?"), the philosopher provides short answers in a sentence or two, never more than a paragraph. (The second part of the book uses longer answers of several pages to develop its arguments.) An index lets the reader browse on topics of interest--such as language, concept, games, or naming.
Any artificial intelligence researcher looking to understand human language will be intrigued by Wittgenstein's ideas on how symbols and language operate. And for anyone who designs software with objects, this book's careful attention to thinking about what makes a good category demonstrates rigorous thinking about everyday objects and things. Philosophical Investigations is at times a strange and often wonderful book that reveals the thought processes of one of history's finest minds. It exposes the fundamental problems of using language as a means of teaching machines to think using words. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Theory of language and language games, meaning and symbols, concepts and categories, behavior, games (including chess), color, images and perception, grammar and language, sensations, theory of mind and thinking. [via]
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The Pictorial Key To The Tarot
by Arthur E. Waite

ISBN 0060689455 (0-06-068945-5)
Softcover, Rudolf Steiner Pr

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Author A.E. Waite called this book "fragments of a secret tradition under the veil of divination." Contains detailed description of each card in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck along with regular and reversed meanings. Black and white illustrations. Min: 1. [via]
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A Primer on Determinism
by John Earman

ISBN 9027722404 (90-277-2240-4)
Hardcover, D Reidel Pub Co

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The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays
by Martin Heidegger

ISBN 0061319694 (0-06-131969-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
by Immanuel Kant, Hoyt H. Hudson, Theodore M. Greene

ISBN 0061300675 (0-06-130067-5)
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Selected Poems
by John Donne, John Hayward

ISBN 0140585184 (0-14-058518-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Selected Poetry
by John Donne, John Carey

ISBN 0192834908 (0-19-283490-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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John Donne's love poetry is a magnetic mix of the soul singing, intellectual rigor, and the lascivious prod. Seductions abound, but go hand in hand with metaphors of science, discovery, and conquest: "License my roving hands, and let them go, / Behind, before, above, between, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned ..." In "The Flea," the speaker even uses a revolting parasite to persuade his young woman to bed. Since the flea has bitten both of them already, he urges, why should they not commingle on a larger scale? But in one of Donne's trademark reversals, the argument fails when the woman squashes the offending insect.
"The Good Morrow" is a good deal more romantic, opening: "I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?" Lines such as "And now good morrow to our waking souls, / Which watch not one another out of fear; / For love all love of other sights controls, / And makes one little room an everywhere" have even made the poem a wedding standard. ("The Sun Rising" is another nuptial favorite.) As usual, however, the poet adds a tincture of imperfection to the vision: the persona's excuse (charming but dubious), "If ever any beauty I did see, / Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee." Though readers might concentrate on the love songs and sonnets, John Carey's edition of the Selected Poetry offers much more, including satires, epigrams, and Donne's brilliant holy sonnets. As rugged, brilliantly contorted, and fraught with feeling as his more diurnal poetry, they are also equally concerned with inconstancy--Donne was born a Catholic, but converted to Anglicanism in 1593. "Batter my heart, three-personed God" ends: "Take me to You, imprison me, for I / Except You' enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me." [via]
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The Significance of Free Will
by Robert Kane

ISBN 0195126564 (0-19-512656-4)
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In the past quarter-century, there has been a resurgence of interest in philosophical questions about free will. After a clear and broad-reaching survey of these recent debates, Robert Kane presents his own controversial view. Arguing persuasively for a traditional incompatibilist or libertarian conception of free will, Kane demonstrates that such a conception can be made intelligible without appeals to obscure or mysterious forms of agency and thus can be reconciled with a contemporary scientific picture of the world. [via]
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The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
by Starhawk

ISBN 0062508148 (0-06-250814-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the life-affirming ways in which readers can turn to the Goddess to deepen their sense of personal pride, develop their inner power, and integrate mind, body, and spirit. Starhawk's brilliant, comprehensive overview of the growth, suppression, and modern-day re-emergence of Wicca as a Goddess-worshipping religion has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness.
In a new introduction, Starhawk reveals the ways in which Goddess religion and the practice of ritual have adapted and developed over the last twenty years, and she reflects on the ways in which these changes have influenced and enhanced her original ideas. In the face of an ever-changing world, this invaluable spiritual guidebook is more relevant than ever.
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Tao Te Ching: New English Version
by Stephen Mitchell

ISBN 0060812451 (0-06-081245-1)
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Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living, and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching looks at the basic predicament of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit. This book is about wisdom in action. It teaches how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao (the basic principle of the universe) and applies equally to good government and sexual love; to child rearing, business, and ecology.
Stephen Mitchell's bestselling version has been widely acclaimed as a gift to contemporary culture.

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Tao Te Ching
by Lao-Tzu, D. C. Lau, Lao Tzu

ISBN 014044131X (0-14-044131-X)
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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) is a timeless guide to the art of living. Its central figure, the Master, lives in harmony with the Tao, the irreducible essence of the universe. Surrendering to it as the Master teaches, we feel whole. Emptying ourselves of judgment and desire, we discover the universal truths within: Without wanting, we find peace; if we let go of what we love, our love becomes present.
Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translation of this age-old text has sold more than half a million copies worldwide. Here, for the first time, it is illustrated with Chinese paintings selected by Asian art expert Dr. Stephen Little. The perfect depiction of plants, animals, and birds expresses harmony with nature, the principal teaching of the Tao; the mountainous landscapes are the heavenly home of the Tao. Each brushstroke is painted with precision, just as each word of Mitchell's translation speaks with unmatched power.
This inspired translation, combined with the best images in Chinese art, will ensure that the Tao Te Ching continues to exert a profound influence into the next century.
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Tao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Life
by Lao Tzu, Richard Wilhelm

ISBN 0140190600 (0-14-019060-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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No other work of Chinese literature has attracted as much attention as Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching". It has been translated more often than any other book except the Bible and more commentaries have been written on it than any other Chinese classic. Both philosophical speculation and mystical reflection, the "Tao Te Ching" is about the harmony and flow of life and the necessity for affinity to it. [via]
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Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christ
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Dean A. Grennell, R. J. Hollingdale

ISBN 0140445145 (0-14-044514-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soulin contempt

In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a grand declaration of war on reason, psychology and theology that combines highly charged personal attacks on his contemporaries with a lightning tour of his own philosophy. It also paves the way for The Anti-Christ, Nietzches final assault on institutional Christianity, in which he identifies himself with the Dionysian artist and confronts Christ; the only opponent he feels worthy of him.

In his introduction Michael Tanner discussed the themes of Nietzches argument and places the works in their historical and philosophical context.

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Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man
by Jaime T. Licauco

ISBN 9710804545 (971-08-0454-5)
Hardcover, National Book Store

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Understanding Truth
by Scott Soames

ISBN 0195123352 (0-19-512335-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. Soames aims to integrate and deepen the most significant insights on truth from a variety of sources. He powerfully brings together the best technical work and the most important philosophical reflection on truth and shows how each can illuminate the other.

Investigating such questions as whether we need a truth predicate at all, what theoretical tasks it allows us to accomplish, and how we are to understand the content of any predicate capable of accomplishing these tasks, Soames organizes his discussion into three parts. Part I addresses crucial foundational issues as it identifies the bearers of truth, provides a basis for distinguishing truth from other notions (like certainty, with which it is often confused), and formulates positive responses to well-known forms of truth-skepticism. Part II explicates the formal theories of Alfred Tarski and Saul Kripke and evaluates the philosophical significance of their work. It discusses their treatments of the Liar paradox, the relationship between truth and proof, the notion of a partially defined predicate, the concepts of logical truth and logical consequence, and the connection between truth and meaning. Part III extends important lessons drawn from Tarski and Kripke into new domains: vague predicates, the Sorites paradox, and the development of a larger, deflationary perspective on truth.

Throughout the book, Soames examines a wide range of deflationary theories of truth, and attempts to separate what is correct and worth preserving in them from what is not. In doing so, he seeks to clear up many of the most significant philosophical doubts about truth. Written for a general audience while offering engaging material to the specialist, this rich study will be profitably read by both. [via]
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Veronika Decide Morir / Veronika Decides to Die
by Paulo Coelho

ISBN 9685957851 (968-5957-85-1)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori

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Veronika es una joven que tiene los mismos sueños y deseos que cualquier persona de su edad.Es guapa, cuenta con un buen trabajo y no le faltan pretendientes. Su vida transcurre sin mayores sobresaltos, sin grandes alegrías ni grandes tristezas. Pero Veronika no es feliz. Por eso, la mañana del 11 de noviembre de 1997, Veronika decide morir. Sueños y fantasías. Deseo y muerte. Locura y pasión. Veronika, en su camino hacia la muerte, descubre que cada segundo de la existencia es una opción que tomamos entre la alternativa de sequir adelante o de abandonar. Veronika experimenta placeres nuevos y halla un nuevo sentido a la vida, un sentido que le había permanecido oculto hasta ahora, cuando ya es demasiado tarde para echarse atrás.
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Welcome Home: Following Your Soul's Journey Home
by Sandra Ingerman

ISBN 0062502670 (0-06-250267-0)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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What Is Called Thinking
by Martin Heidegger

ISBN 006090528X (0-06-090528-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Wisdom of the Mystic Masters
by Joseph J. Weed

ISBN 0139615326 (0-13-961532-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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