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Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essayby Francis Herbert BradleyISBN 0415295912 (0-415-29591-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Berkeleyby David BermanISBN 0415923875 (0-415-92387-5)
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Bertrand Russellby Ray MonkISBN 0415923867 (0-415-92386-7)
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Bertrand Russell's Bestby R.E. EgnerISBN 0451627776 (0-451-62777-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Book of the Damnedby Charles FortISBN 0486421333 (0-486-42133-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writingsby Charles PeirceISBN 0486216349 (0-486-21634-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Children of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441104029 (0-441-10402-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Dune'Book summary:The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father's supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs.[via]But there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs...
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The Cloud of Unknowing: The Classic of Medieval Mysticismby Evelyn UnderhillISBN 0486432033 (0-486-43203-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cloud of Unknowing: The Classic of Medieval Mysticism'Book summary:Mysticism explores the nature of reality, beginning with the individual struggle for a clear vision of reality. This 14th-century manual was written as a guide for a young person starting on the path to a contemplative life. It states that a "cloud of unknowing" separates people from God, and that it can only be penetrated by love.[via]More editions of The Cloud of Unknowing: The Classic of Medieval Mysticism:
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The Common Lawby Oliver W. HolmesISBN 0486267466 (0-486-26746-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Common Law'Book summary:Only paperback edition of great legal classic by noted Supreme Court Justice. Lucid, accessible coverage, from a historical perspective, of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, many other aspects of civil and criminal law. Indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, interested general readers.[via]More editions of The Common Law:
Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paineby Thomas PaineISBN 0452009219 (0-452-00921-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Common Sense, the Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writingsby Thomas Paine, Sidney Hook, Jack FruchtmanISBN 0451528891 (0-451-52889-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotionby Stephen L. CarterISBN 0465026478 (0-465-02647-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion'Book summary:Written by the author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby", this book argues that in America's zeal to keep religion out of politics, it has forced the religiously devout to act as if their faith doesn't really matter. Stephen Carter takes on the conventional wisdom that to secure religious freedom we must keep religion out of the public realm. Carter uses liberal means to arrive at what are often considered conservative ends. A firm believer in the separation of church and state (just as he endorses some forms of affirmative action), he argues that it is possible, even vital, to maintain that separation without trivializing religious belief or treating religious believers with disdain. A wide range of issues appear in a new light - from religion in schools to Moonie weddings, from abortion to the Clarence Thomas hearings. [via]
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Descartes' Dream: The World According To Mathematicsby Philip Davis, Reuben HershISBN 0486442527 (0-486-44252-7)
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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciencesby Galileo GalileiISBN 0486600998 (0-486-60099-8)
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Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Outby Slavoj ZizekISBN 0415928125 (0-415-92812-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out'Book summary:In "Enjoy Your Symptom!" Slavoj Zizek argues for the accessibility and ultimate simplicity of Lacanian theory by linking it with popular Hollywood film. "Enjoy Your Symptom!" is divided into five chapters, each elucidating some fundamental Lacanian notion or theoretical complex - "letter, fantasy, woman, repetition, phallus, father" - through a reference to Hollywood and the popular culture which forms the background of our common experience. Each chapter is then divided into two parts. In the first part, Lacan is "in Hollywood," ie the notion or complex in question is explained by way of examples from Hollywood or popular culture in general. In the second division, we are "out of Hollywood", ie the same notion is elaborated as it is in its inherent context. The "Why ..." in the title of each chapter purposely evokes the naivete of a child's question. Pick up this book and learn why a "letter" always arrives at its destination with the help of "City Lights", "Now Voyager" and "Letter from an Unknown Woman"; learn why fantasy is the ultimate support of reality with the help of "Rancho", "Notorious", "She" and "Tarzan"; learn why woman is a symptom of man with the help of Roberto Ross. [via]
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Essay On The Freedom Of The Willby Arthur Schopenhauer, Konstantin KolendaISBN 0486440117 (0-486-44011-7)
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Ethical Writings of Maimonidesby Moses MaimonidesISBN 0486245225 (0-486-24522-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethical Writings of Maimonides'Book summary:Here are the most significant ethical writings of the 12th-century philosopher, physician, and master of rabbinical literature translated from the original sources by noted Maimonides scholars. Includes the first English versions of "Eight Chapters," plus "Laws Concerning Character Traits," "Treatise on the Art of Logic," and gleanings from Maimonides' medical writings.[via]More editions of Ethical Writings of Maimonides:
Evolution As a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fearsby Mary MidgleyISBN 0415278333 (0-415-27833-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Feminists Theorize the Politicalby Judith Butler, Joan W. ScottISBN 0415902746 (0-415-90274-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feminists Theorize the Political'Book summary:The use of theory' in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralist theory within feminism. Against the view that poststructuralism necessarily weakens feminism, Feminists Theorize the Political affirms the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential. The essays in Feminists Theorize the Political speak to the questions that emerge from the convergence of feminism and poststructuralism: What happens to feminist critique when traditional grounds and foundations - experience, history, universal norms - are called into question? Can feminist theory problematize the notion of the subject without losing its political effectivity? Which version of the subject is to be questioned, and how does that questioning open up possibilities for reformulating agency, power, and sites of political resistance? What are the consequences of a specifically feminist reformulation of difference? What are the uses and limits of a poststructuralist critique of binary logic for the theorization of racial and class differences, the position of the subaltern? [via]
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From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Livesby Robert FulghumISBN 0449000958 (0-449-00095-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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From Plato to Nietzscheby E. L. AllenISBN 0449300404 (0-449-30040-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Genesisby Michel Serres, Genevieve James, James NielsonISBN 0472084356 (0-472-08435-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genesis'Book summary:This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genèse captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge, anxiety, and violence. Written in a unique blend of scientific discourse and lyrical outburst, classical philosophical idiom and conversational intimacy, by turns angry, playful, refined or discordant, Genesis is an attempt to think outside of metaphysical categories of unity or rational order and to make us hear--through both its content and form--the "noise," the "sound and the fury," that are the background of life and thought.Serres draws on a vast knowledge of such diverse disciplines as anthropology, classical history, music, theology, art history, information theory, physics, biology, dance and athletics, and Western metaphysics, and a range of cultural material that includes the writings of Plato, Kant, August Comte, Balzac, and Shakespeare, to name a few. He argues that although philosophy has been instrumental in the past in establishing laws of logic and rationality that have been crucial to our understanding of ourselves and our universe, one of the most pressing tasks of thought today is to recognize that such pockets of unity are islands of order in a sea of multiplicity--a sea which cannot really be conceived, but which perhaps can still be sensed, felt, and heard raging in chaos beneath the momentary crests of order imposed by human civilization.Philosophy of science or prose poetry, a classical meditation on metaphysics or a stream-of-consciousness polemic and veiled invective, Serres mounts a quirky, at times rhapsodical, but above all a "noisy" critique of traditional and current models in social theory, historiography, and aesthetics. The result is a work that is at once provocative, poetic, deeply personal, and ultimately religious--an apocalyptic call for the rebirth of philosophy as the art of thinking the unthinkable.About the Book:"An intensely beautiful and rigourous meditation on the birth of forms amid chaos and multiplicity from a major philosopher who is also an exquisite craftsman of the written word." --William Paulson, University of Michigan"Serres exhibits a rare, raw tendentiousness refreshing in its vitriol . . . it's the sort of light-hearted, perverse, and basically liberal tirade one hears too infrequently of late." --Word[via] -
Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrativeby Herbert Mason, John H. MarksISBN 0451627180 (0-451-62718-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative'Book summary:Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original. [via]
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God Emperor of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441294677 (0-441-29467-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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God Is Redby Vine DeloriaISBN 0440330440 (0-440-33044-0)
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Good Omensby Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, David FramptonISBN 0441003257 (0-441-00325-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens'Book summary:The world is going to end next Saturday, just before dinner, but it turns out there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race. Reprint. NYT. AB. [via]
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanISBN 0425132153 (0-425-13215-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Greek Experienceby Cecil BowraISBN 0451623924 (0-451-62392-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Herlandby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486404293 (0-486-40429-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herland'Book summary:Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which 3 male explorers stumble upon an all-female society isolated in a distant part of the earth. Early 20th-century vehicle for Gilman's then-unconventional views of male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, sense of community, sexuality, and other topics. Mischievous, ironic approach used to telling effect.[via]More editions of Herland:
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His Dark Materialsby Philip PullmanISBN 0440419514 (0-440-41951-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'His Dark Materials'Book summary:In the epic trilogy His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to worlds parallel to our own. Dæmons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. The three books in Pullman's heroic fantasy series, published as trade paperbacks, are united here in one dazzling boxed set that includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. In these new editions, each chapter opens with artwork by Pullman himself, along with chapter quotations from the likes of Milton, Donne, Black, Byron, and the Bible that did not appear in earlier editions. Join Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest as they embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands. (Ages 13 and older) [via]
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His Dark Materials (Laurel-Leaf)by Philip PullmanISBN 0440238609 (0-440-23860-9)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'His Dark Materials (Laurel-Leaf)'Book summary:In the epic trilogy His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to worlds parallel to our own. Dæmons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. The three books in Pullman's heroic fantasy series, published as trade paperbacks, are united here in one dazzling boxed set that includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. In these new editions, each chapter opens with artwork by Pullman himself, along with chapter quotations from the likes of Milton, Donne, Black, Byron, and the Bible that did not appear in earlier editions. Join Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest as they embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands. (Ages 13 and older) [via]
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A History of Estheticsby Helmut Kuhn, Gilbert, Katharine (Everett)ISBN 0486228290 (0-486-22829-0)
Hardcover, Dover Publications
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I Chingby Raymond Van OverISBN 0451626818 (0-451-62681-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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I Ching: The Sacred Books of China The Book of Changesby James LeggeISBN 0486210626 (0-486-21062-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Illustrated Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Howard ChapnickISBN 0448020742 (0-448-02074-2)
Hardcover, Madison Square Press
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An Introduction to Symbolic Logicby Susanne Katherina LangerISBN 0486601641 (0-486-60164-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Symbolic Logic'Book summary:Famous classic has introduced countless readers to symbolic logic with its thorough and precise exposition. Starts with simple symbols and conventions and concludes with the Boole-Schroeder and Russell-Whitehead systems. No special knowledge of mathematics necessary. "One of the clearest and simplest introductions to a subject which is very much alive." Mathematics Gazette.[via]More editions of An Introduction to Symbolic Logic:
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Peter Davison, Billy Collins, Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
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The Limits of Analysisby Stanley RosenISBN 0465040985 (0-465-04098-5)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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The Living World of Audubonby Roland C. ClementISBN 0448118319 (0-448-11831-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Love and Willby Rollo MayISBN 0440350271 (0-440-35027-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love and Will'Book summary:"An extraordinary book on sex and civilization....An important contribution to contemporary morality."Newsweek
The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, their source and interrelation. Bringing fresh insight to these concepts, May shows how we can attain a deeper consciousness. [via]More editions of Love and Will:
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The Meaning of Truthby William JamesISBN 0486421406 (0-486-42140-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Truth'Book summary:[via]The work of a leading figure in the transition from a predominantly European-centered 19th-century philosophy to a new American philosophy, this volume presents a full and definitive expression of the pragmatist epistemology. It encompasses everything James had hitherto written on the theory of knowledge, including later polemic and expository contributions, and replies to previous criticism.More editions of The Meaning of Truth:
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Mind and the World-Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledgeby Clarence Irving LewisISBN 0486265641 (0-486-26564-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind and the World-Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge'Book summary:Thought-provoking work outlines theory of "conceptual pragmatism," taking into account modern philosophic thought and implications of modern mathematics. Topics include philosophic method, metaphysics, given element in experience, nature of the a priori, experience and order, much else. Stimulating intellectual adventure.[via]More editions of Mind and the World-Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge:
The Myths We Live byby Mary MidgleyISBN 0415340772 (0-415-34077-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myths We Live by'Book summary:The Myths We Live By, by moral philosopher Mary Midgley, is a collection of articles dealing with the importance of symbolism in all our thought and the subsequent need to take our imaginative life seriously. Myths are not lies, she claims, they are not diverting stories, nor do they contrast with something apparently more solid such as "objective scientific truth". Myths and symbols are more like the things we think with. They suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.
Those familiar with Midgely's excellent Science and Poetry will recognise a continuing interest in how some of our most powerful myths (the myth of the social contract, of social atomism, of progress) are understood via the metaphorical light of recent technologies-the telescope, the microscope, the computer-in ways that are no longer useful to our present needs. The familiar contrastive ways of thinking (hard/soft, higher/lower, mind/body, inside/outside, heaven/earth, appearance/reality, objective/subjective, science/poetry) useful as they have been, can also be the prison-houses of thought, keeping us bound to one of the most powerful and misleading myths of all--the myth of science as omnicompetent method.
When thinking about Mary Midgley it pays to compare her with Richard Dawkins. Dawkins approaches his subject with something like cosmic awe. He is the poet-priest of science who writes with an irresistibly powerful appreciation of the wonder and poetic beauty of nature. But Midgeley takes issue with just the sort of scientist-as-priest he might be: the sort of person who thinks that "science is the only way to know the real world", that evidence-based beliefs are the only ones worth having, that religious beliefs are cowardly and irrational and that science is the "hard" king of the disciplines.
Midgley, by contrast, maps culture in an entirely different way. She shows us that there are different ways of looking at the world, different sources of knowledge that all have their place depending on what it is we want to know. Midgley shows us a way to end the contest of the faculties without giving the victory to one discipline or another and this makes her one of the most important thinker-about-thinking philosophers in the country. In Midgley's map of the intellectual landscape there are no priests and the world looks a more interesting place because of it. Try comparing Dawkins' discussion of science and romantic poetry (Unweaving the Rainbow) with any of Midgley's recent offerings. --Larry Brown [via]
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The Naked Apeby Desmond MorrisISBN 0440362660 (0-440-36266-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Nietzscheby Ronald HaymanISBN 0415923808 (0-415-92380-8)
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Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)by GandhiISBN 0486416062 (0-486-41606-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)'Book summary:This volume focuses on Gandhi's vision of Satyagraha, whereby one appeals to reason and conscience and puts an end to evil by converting the evil-doer. The book begins with an explanation of Satyagraha and proceeds with detailed discussions of the self-training and courage necessary for Satyagraha.[via]More editions of Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha):
On Dreamsby Eder, FreudISBN 0486415953 (0-486-41595-3)
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Ordinary Language: Essays in Philosophical Methodby V.C. ChappellISBN 0486240827 (0-486-24082-7)
Softcover, Dover Publications
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, John A. HimesISBN 048644287X (0-486-44287-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:With the three works included in this volume-- Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas --Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history. [via]
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Paradisoby Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, John FrecceroISBN 0451627008 (0-451-62700-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradiso'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human strivingthe merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensityan immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, the Love that moves the Sun and other stars. [via]
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The Paradisoby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451528050 (0-451-52805-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Philosophical Papersby George Edward MooreISBN 0415295513 (0-415-29551-3)
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Philosophical Writingsby Francis Hutcheson, Robin DownieISBN 0460875043 (0-460-87504-3)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0451528336 (0-451-52833-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:One of the most powerful dramas of Christian faith ever written, this captivating allegory of man's religious journey in search of salvation follows the pilgrim as he travels an obstacle-filled road to the Celestial City. An enormously influential 17th-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language.[via]More editions of The Pilgrim's Progress:
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Reflections on Violenceby Georges Sorel, T. E. Hulme, J. Roth, Edward Albert ShilsISBN 0486437078 (0-486-43707-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter PaterISBN 0486440257 (0-486-44025-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry'Book summary:Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. The book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers.[via]More editions of The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry:
Science And Poetryby Mary MidgleyISBN 0415378486 (0-415-37848-6)
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The Secret History : A Novelby Donna TarttISBN 0449911519 (0-449-91151-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History : A Novel'Book summary:"Powerful...Enthrallling...A ferociously well-paced entertainment."THE NEW YORK TIMESRichard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another...a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life...and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning...."A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel."TIMESelected by the Book-of-the-Month ClubA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the Paperback edition. [via]
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Self-Reliance and Other Essaysby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0486277909 (0-486-27790-9)
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Semiotics: The Basicsby DANI CHANDLERISBN 0415363756 (0-415-36375-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Semiotics: The Basics'Book summary:Using jargon-free language and lively, up-to-date examples, Semiotics: The Basics demystifies this highly interdisciplinary subject. Along the way, the reader will find out:
* what is a sign?
* which codes do we take for granted?
* what is a text?
* how can semiotics be used in textual analysis?
* who were Saussure, Peirce, Barthes and Jakobson - and why are they important?
Features include a glossary of key terms and realistic suggestions for further reading. There is also a highly-developed and long-established online version of the book at: www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B [via]
Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legendby Kate Fullbrook, Edward FullbrookISBN 0465078281 (0-465-07828-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend'Book summary:He was France's best-known philosopher and chief arbiter of intellectual fashions during the postwar era. She was the most influential forerunner of today's feminist movement, who nonetheless seemed to live in the shadow of the great man. So goes one of the great cultural legends of today. The only problem, Kate and Edward Fullbrook argue, is that it is wrong. This biography of de Beauvoir and Sartre uses newly available documentary evidence in diaries and letters to shed new light on precisely who was the dominant partner in this peculiar relationship. The book shows that both intellectually and sexually, de Beauvoir led and Sartre followed. [via]
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Story of the Eyeby George BatailleISBN 0425051714 (0-425-05171-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Scott MontcrieffISBN 0486421236 (0-486-42123-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:[via]The first volume of the 7-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and narrator. Its focus then shifts to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in 19th-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance.More editions of Swann's Way:
Texts of Taoismby F. Max Muller, James LeggeISBN 0486209911 (0-486-20991-1)
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Theory of Coloursby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Charles L. EastlakeISBN 0486448053 (0-486-44805-3)
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There's No Such Place As Far Awayby Richard Bach, Ronald WegenISBN 0440087805 (0-440-08780-5)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/E. Friede
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There's No Such Place As Far Away'Book summary:When she was about to turn five, a little girl named Rae Hansen invited Richard Bach to her birthday party. Though deserts, storms, mountains, and a thousand miles separated them, Rae was confident that her friend would appear. There's No Such Place As Far Away chronicles the exhilarating spiritual journey that delivered Rae's anxiously awaited guest to her side on that special day--and tells of the powerful and enduring gift that would keep him forever close to her heart.
Written with the same elegant simplicity that made Jonathan Livingston Seagull a bestselling phenomenon, There's No Such Place As Far Away has touched the hearts of thousands of readers since its first publication in 1979. Richard Bach's inspiring, now-classic tale is a profound reminder that miles cannot truly separate us from friends...that those we love are always with us--every moment of the infinite celebration we call life.
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Undoing Genderby Judith ButlerISBN 0415969239 (0-415-96923-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undoing Gender'Book summary:Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory. [via]
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Utilitarianism, on Liberty, and Essay on Bentham: Together with Selected Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austinby John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Mary WarnockISBN 0452009707 (0-452-00970-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0486456765 (0-486-45676-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass'Book summary:"The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by transcendentalism, Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions of symbolism and allegory, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature. [via]
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What's Wrong With the Worldby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486454274 (0-486-45427-4)
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Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Beingby George Lakoff, Rafael E. NunezISBN 0465037712 (0-465-03771-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being'Book summary:If Barbie thinks math class is tough, what could she possibly think about math as a class of metaphorical thought? Cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez explore that theme in great depth in Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. This book is not for the faint of heart or those with an aversion to heavy abstraction--Lakoff and Nuñez pull no punches in their analysis of mathematical thinking. Their basic premise, that all of mathematics is derived from the metaphors we use to maneuver in the world around us, is easy enough to grasp, but following the reasoning requires a willingness to approach complex mathematical and linguistic concepts--a combination that is sure to alienate a fair number of readers.
Those willing to brave its rigors will find Where Mathematics Comes From rewarding and profoundly thought-provoking. The heart of the book wrestles with the important concept of infinity and tries to explain how our limited experience in a seemingly finite world can lead to such a crazy idea. The authors know their math and their cognitive theory. While those who want their abstractions to reflect the real world rather than merely the insides of their skulls will have trouble reading while rolling their eyes, most readers will take to the new conception of mathematical thinking as a satisfying, if challenging, solution. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy: Human Immortalityby William JamesISBN 0486202917 (0-486-20291-7)
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A Wrinkle in Time: Library Editionby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0440220394 (0-440-22039-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wrinkle in Time'Book summary:Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their new friend Calvin, embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.
Young people who have trouble finding their place in the world will connect with the "misfit" characters in this provocative story. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep into their characters to find answers.
A classic since 1962, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg's shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Softcover, Random House Children's Books - A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440498058 (0-440-49805-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440800544 (0-440-80054-4)
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