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By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Central Bureau Press, St. Louis / Catholic Central Verein of America: 1941
Seller ID: 2021409
Minor rust to staples, wrappers lightly toned. 1941 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. Stapled binding, printed wrappers. A guide printed by an American Catholic organization for members of the American armed forces, designed to aid them in helping avoid some of the dangers associated with service. Nearly half of the booklet appears to deal with the consequences of indulging sexual appetites, with sections on prostitutes, venereal diseases, etc. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2270173
Top edge of jacket front previously mended with tape, front jacket flap clipped, jacket spine very faintly toned. 1977 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Far-Eastern proverbs covering a range of topics including: advice, business, caution, children, contention, education, friendship, honor, house, inclination, justice, labor, learning, opportunity, riches and poverty, satisfaction, sin, speech and silence, strength and power, time, virtue and piety. View more info
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
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1944
Seller ID: 2199256
Pages heavily toned.Jacket edges rubbed, a few small tears to jacket, jacket toned. 1944 Hard Cover. xxiii, 307 pp. Mortimer Adler writes in his introduction: In thinking about war and peace, as in thinking about other basic practical problems, the man who brings general ideas and principles to bear upon particular problems and formulations has a unique advantage. He can make effective contact with the concrete and the immediate without losing a dispassionate vision of t... View more info
By: Adler, Mortimer J.; Van Doren, Geraldine
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Collier Books: 1990
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2276231
First printing. Minor crease to bottom corner of front wrapper, spine head lightly bumped. 1990 Trade Paperback. xxxiii, 362 pp. Spanning the breadth of his career, from 1939 to 1989, this book is the response from Mortimer J. Adler to the question What can be done about American education? For Adler the best education is one that offers the best education possible for all. View more info
By: Albert, Michael
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Verso: 2004
Seller ID: 2199123
Light rubbing to wrappers. 2004 Trade Paperback. ‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, ‘Parecon’ for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity and... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Amitabha Buddhist Society of USA:
Seller ID: 1524598
Chinese text. Light wear to edges of pictorial box, pages clean, bindings tight. Complete in two volumes. Released by the Amitabha Buddhist Society of the USA, this is based on research of a collection of the teachings of Chin Kung and other Pure Land Buddhist teachers. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chin Kung, (b. 1927) is a Buddhist monk from the Mahayana tradition. He is the founder of the Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, an organization based on the teachings ... 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
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Hackett: 1988
Seller ID: 2198198
Minimal highlighting on Table of Contents only. 1988 Trade Paperback. The second edition of Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politicsretains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new translations by Richard J. Regan--including that of his Aquinas, Treatise on Law(Hackett, 2000). A revised Introduction and glossary, an updated select bibliography, and the inclusion of summarizing headnotes for each of the units--Conscience, Law, Justice,... View more info
By: Arendt, Hannah
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2006
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2261578
Reprint. Wrappers rubbed. 2006 Trade Paperback. Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of... View more info
By: Aristotle; Roberts, W. Rhys; Bywater, Ingram
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1981
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265097
An exceptional copy. 1981 Hard Cover. 244 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, brown ribbon marker bound in. Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls poetry (a term which in Greek literally means making and in this context includes drama-comedy... View more info
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By: Aristotle; Thomson, J.A.K.; Tredennick, Hugh; Barnes, Jonathan; Grayling, A.C.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Folio Society: 2003
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2276796
Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase lightly scuffed. 2003 Hard Cover. li, [1], 297, [3] pp. 8vo. The ethical philosophy of the famous Greek philosopher and pupil of Plato, often referred to as the Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by J.A.K. Thomson, revised with notes and appendices by Hugh Tredennick, with an introduction and further reading by Jonathan Barnes and a preface by A.C. Grayling, and a frontispiece engraving by Simon Brett. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was... View more info
By: Armstrong, D.M.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Westview Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2271950
Ink underlining and marginalia. 1989 Trade Paperback. In this short text, a distinguished philosopher turns his attention to one of the oldest and most fundamental philosophical problems of all: How it is that we are able to sort and classify different things as being of the same natural class? Professor Armstrong carefully sets out six major theories—ancient, modern, and contemporary—and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each. Recognizing that there are no fi... View more info
By: Armstrong, Tim
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Polity Press: 2005
Seller ID: 2271044
Pencil underlining and marginalia. 2005 Trade Paperback. The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres but also by its links with broader cultural areas in which the'modern' is implicated and debated, and which inform its representational modes. View more info
By: Asma, Stephen T.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Writers and Readers: 1996
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2266951
Second printing. Light stain and light water damage to last half of page base. 1996 Trade Paperback. iii, 152 pp. Explains the underlying philosophies of Buddhism, introduces the historical Buddha, and discusses the philosophical differences between the Theravada, Madhyamaika, Tantric, and Zen forms. View more info
By: Aurelius, Marcus; Grube, G.M.A.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company: 1985
Seller ID: 2276785
Spine and wrapper edges lightly toned, ink name on half-title page, faint odor of smoke. 1985 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 143 pp. Translated by G.M.A. Grube. Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek[1] as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.[2] It is possible that la... View more info
By: Bailey, Samuel
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields: 1854
Seller ID: 2204495
No jacket, top edges of a few pages stained. 1854 Hard Cover. xii, 422, [4] pp. Samuel Bailey (5 July 1791 – 18 January 1870) was a British philosopher and writer.His first work, Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions, published anonymously in 1821, attracted more attention than any of his other writings. A sequel to it appeared in 1829, Essays on the Pursuit of Truth. Between these two were Questions in Political Economy, Politics, Morals, &c. (1823), an... View more info
By: Baird, Forrest E.; Kaufmann, Walter
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Prentice Hall: 1999
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2196198
Third edition. Light edge wear, text unmarked. 1999 Trade Paperback. For courses in Ancient Philosophy. Designed to be accessible to today's students, this anthology of readings in Ancient Western philosophy focuses on the writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers. Striking a balance between major and minor figures, it features the best available translations of texts--complete works or complete selections... View more info
By: Barreno, Maria Isabel; Horta, Maria Teresa; Da Costa, Maria Velho
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1976
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2263071
1st printing. Pages toned. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. A work by three Woman's Rights activists who were arrested for their shocking literary output. View more info
By: Barrow, R.H.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Pelican Books: 1970
Seller ID: 1284269
Cover worn, sticker on front cover, pages toned. 1970 Mass Market Paperback. CONTENTS: What Manner of Men?; 'The Old Ways'; Kings, Republic, Empire; From the Seven Hills to the Roman Orb; From City-state to Republic in Ruins; The New Ways and the Old; Cicero; Restoration and the Augustan Principate: Vergil and Horace and Livy; The First and Second Centuries, A.D.; What the Romans Wrote About; The Roman Practical Genius; The Roman Attitude to Religion and Philosophy; The ... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Macmillan: 1977
Seller ID: 2197438
Fading to jacket spine. 1977 Hard Cover. An examination of European philosophy through the entire modern era. View more info
By: Bavink, Bernhard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Silva Verlag: 1952
Seller ID: 1520678
1952 Hard Cover. 159 pp. German text. Bernhard Bavink was a German scientist and philosopher, loosely and controversially associated with the Nazi party. View more info
By: Beauvoir, Simone de; Hengst, Ulla (Translator)
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Rowohlt: 1972
Seller ID: 1523123
German text. 1972 printing. Wrappers rubbed, stain to top corner of page ridges (does not affect text), small tear on p. 36 (text still legible). 185 pp. German text. English title: The Woman Destroyed. A German translation of the work by the famous French existentialist writer and feminist advocate. View more info
By: Becker, Carl L.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Yale University: 1964
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2271390
Wrappers rubbed. 1964 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A four-lecture look at the philosophical climate during the time of Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and many others. View more info
By: Benjamin, Walter; Rosenthal, Lecia; Lutes, Jonanthan; Schumann, Lisa Harries; Reese, Diana K.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Verso: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263618
First edition. Jacket spine-head lightly bumped. 2014 Hard Cover. xxix, 394 pp. Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic collection demonstrates t... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1974
Seller ID: 2271948
Pencil underlining. 1974 Trade Paperback. Jonathan Bennett here examines the second half of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Dialectic, where Kant is concerned with problems about substance, the nature of the self, the cosmos, freedom and the existence of God. In this study of the Dialectic in English, the author aims to make accessible and intelligible to students this complex and extremely important part of Kant's great work. There are also extended comparative discuss... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1966
Seller ID: 2272369
Highlighting and underlining, small stain to base. 1966 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A critical exposition and evaluation of the ideas contained in the first half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. View more info
By: Bennett, Paula
Price: $9.00
Publisher: University of Illinois: 1990
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1933940
First paperback printing. 1990 Trade Paperback. A feminist re-examination of female poetry. View more info
By: Berdyaev, Nicolas [Nikolai]; Reavey, George
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2278648
First edition. No jacket, minor loss to spine head and spine base, spine hinge rubbed, ink name on front endpaper, pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. 1936 Hard Cover. x, 224 pp. Translated from the Russian by George Reavey. CONTENTS: Foreword; Translator's Note; on the Essence of the Historical: The Meaning of Tradition; On the Nature of the Historical: The Metaphysical and the Historical; Of Celestial History: God and Man; Of Celestial History: Time and Etern... View more info
By: Bergson, Henri
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill: 1955
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2275652
2nd printing. Lacks rear wrappers, a few stray pencil marks. 1955 Stapled Binding. The famous French philosopher's take on metaphysics and his elan vitale. View more info
