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Price: $75.00
Publisher: Crocker & Brewster: 1836
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262521
First edition. Boards a bit soiled, pages foxed throughout. 1836 Small Hard Cover. viii, 192 pp. 12mo. Green cloth with elaborate blind-stamped design. Includes hand-colored engraved frontispiece of a man, his two daughters, and his wife before a fireplace. An analysis of moral culture and how it relates to the family, the church, and one's neighbors. Abbott made sure to disabuse us all of a misapprehension of happiness by entitling the first chapter Merriment is Not Hap... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $35.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.: 1838
Seller ID: 1523287
Boards rubbed, spine sunned, pages foxed throughout, ink & pencil marks on endpapers (text unmarked). 1838 Small Hard Cover. 288 pp. A book from the early 19th century meant as a guide to lead the boy into manhood. Includes sections on: Classical learning, industry, The Imagination and the Importance of its proper regulation, A good heart necessary to enjoy the beauties of nature, Filial love, Fraternal love, The want of Decision of Character, On Buffoonery in Conversati... View more info
By: Baase, Sara
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Pearson: 2012
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2283511
Fourth edition. Still in shrink wrap. 2012 Soft Cover. This book covers subjects ranging from hacking to telecommuting to proper testing techniques and everything in between. View more info
By: Coltman, John
Price: $75.00
Publisher: John Fordyce / Dickinson, Printer.: 1813
Seller ID: 1865242
Boards rubbed, pages foxed throughout, bookplate from Social Library at Salisbury Ferry and ink name on front endpapers, pencil notes on front & rear endpapers. 1813 Full-Leather. vi, 398 pp. Original full leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles & double rules. A collection of maxims designed to encourage the successful raising of a family using moral principles. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Abingdon Press: 1994
Seller ID: 2200201
Laminate bumped, page corners lightly dog-eared. 1994 Trade Paperback. 210 pp. Cries for the elimination of welfare rise at the very time that the amount of poverty in the United States grows. And the Poor Get Welfare is an ethical and theological analysis of both of these realities. It sets the context for this analysis by surveying the current situation and the histories of poverty and welfare as public policy issues in the United States.The heart of Copeland's ethic... View more info
By: De Sousa, Ronald
Price: $10.00
Publisher: MIT Press / Bradford Books: 1997
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2260991
5th printing. An exceptional copy. 1997 Trade Paperback. In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason. View more info
By: Ellis, C.C.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Elgin Press: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1629322
First edition. Lacks jacket. 1924 Hard Cover. A guide for young people on how to develop and flourish as a good Christian. View more info
By: Harris, Sam
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Free Press: 2011
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2284488
First printing. A very nice copy. 2011 Trade Paperback. 307 pp. In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. In his view, moral relativism is simply false—and comes at an increasing cost to humanity. And the intrusions of religion into the sphere ... View more info
By: Hoffding, Harald; Meyer, B.E.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1924
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2272116
5th printing of the original English translation. Volume 1 spine faded, hinges just beginning to weaken, minor ink underlining and marginalia (probably a dozen or so pages affected), front and end matter lightly foxed. 1924 Hard Cover. xvii, [1], 532; ix, [1], 600, [4] pp. 8vo. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Philosophical Library: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1768229
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed & toned. 1968 Hard Cover. ix, 521 pp. A theoretical framework of Bolshevism showing its philosophical and psychological underpinnings, and placing it in a context with Russian labor. View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281574
First edition (stated, with $3.50 price on jacket). Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper, reverse of jacket foxed, jacket a bit rubbed. 1963 Hard Cover. x, [2], 146, [2] pp. 8vo. King's second book, a collection of sermons preaching the value of love and nonviolence, and urging the sort of mutual understanding and respect King spoke about during his speeches as a civil right activist. If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press: 1998
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268325
First printing. A very nice copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. xvi, 371 pp. Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the... View more info
By: Marietta, Don E.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Temple: 1994
Seller ID: 2196200
Ink underlining & marginalia. 1994 Trade Paperback. The view of nature has begun to move away from a traditionally Western humans-apart-from-nature attitude toward one that sees humans as a part of nature. This book describes these changes and what the author perceives as a philosophical shift toward a different holistic models of environmental ethics. View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1970
Seller ID: 1520062
A few pages dog-eared, page ridges foxed. 1970 Mass Market Paperback. 270 pp. CONTENTS: 1. The Crisis in American Society 2. Sociology and Human Values 3. Social Values and Social Problems 4. The Self as a Social Value 5. Man and Nature 6. The Human Image 7. Man and Society 8. Time and History 9. Alienation and Objectivity; Index. View more info
By: Neal, Sister Marie Augusta
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Prentice-Hall: 1965
Seller ID: 1294077
Covers & pages toned, spine creased. 1965 Trade Paperback. CONTENTS: The Function of Values and Interests: The Theoretical Problem; Doctrinal and Historical Bases of Pressures to Change; Measuring Orientation to Values: Interests, Change; The Diocesan Clergy: Sample and Target Population; Experimenting with Pressures to Change; Contents Analysis: Patterns of Assent and Dissent; Content Analysis: Orientation to the World; Content Analysis: Style of Response; Content Analy... View more info
By: Pellingra, S.J.
Price: $9.99
Publisher: Friesen Press: 2012
Seller ID: 2263597
First paperback printing. Brand new. 2012 Trade Paperback. vii, 90 pp. A compilation of S.J. Pellingra Sr.'s commentaries on a wide variety of topics regarding Christian and Biblical living. This is his interpretation of Scripture as he has faithfully applied to his own daily living throughout his life. Christians may attend Biblical studies and read commentaries in order to satisfy an inner longing to know God's Word on a deeper and more personal level. It is the Christ... View more info
By: Pfaff, Donald W.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Dana Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271565
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2007 Hard Cover. We remember the admonition of our mothers: “Treat others as you want them to treat you.” But what if being nice was something we were inclined by nature to do anyway? Renowned neuroscientist Donald Pfaff upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Golden Rule is hardwired into the human brain. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2010
Seller ID: 2280189
Highlighting. 2010 Trade Paperback. Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets?Sandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well. View more info
By: Shcherbatov, M.M.; Lentin, A. (Editor / Translator / Introduction / Notes)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 1969
Seller ID: 1293580
Faint stain on jacket reverse and cover / page base, minimal pencil marks in text, jacket price clipped.Good. 1969 Hard Cover. The most celebrated work of the Russian historian, philosopher and publicist Prince M. M. Shcherbatov (1733-90). Written towards the close of the reign of Catherine the Great, it is half memoir, half polemic, comprising a survey of Russian history in the eighteenth century from the point of view of a moral censor, and an outspoken attack on the d... View more info
