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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
By: Adler, Bill
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Carol Publishing Group: 1993
Seller ID: 2202536
Small black smudge to page ridge. 1993 Trade Paperback. vi, 154 pp. The most eloquent of American presidents, Lincoln seemed to have a comment — sagacious or humorous — on just about anything that mattered. This concise compendium offers his astute observations on a variety of subjects—from women to warfare. Nearly 400 quotations include such thought-provoking and memorable remarks as:Bad promises are better broken than kept.Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it ... 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: 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
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: Badiou, Alain
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Verso: 2015
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2201754
1st printing. Fine. 2015 Trade Paperback. 210 pp. “We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain Badiou Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis,” first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises of... 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: 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
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: Berkeley, George; Calkins, Mary W.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Scribners: 1957
Seller ID: 2263076
Wrappers lightly rubbed. 1957 Mass Market Paperback. Contains the complete text of his Principles and Hylas, excerpts from Alciphron and several other works. View more info
By: Berkeley, George; Hume, David; Wheelwright, Philip
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1935
Seller ID: 2269972
No jacket, address label on front paste-down endpaper, ink note on front endpaper, front hinge starting, minor pencil marginalia. 1935 Hard Cover. xxxiv, 380 pp. CONTENTS: Editor's Introduction; George Berkeley - A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I: Of the Understanding, Introduction; Part I: Of Ideas; Part II: Of the Ideas of Space and Time; Part III: Of Knowledge and Probability; Part IV: Of the Scept... View more info
By: Berkley, George [Berkeley, George]
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Increase Cooke & Co.: 1803
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1979632
First American edition, from the fourth London edition. Front board and free endpaper loose, seminary bookplate on front paste-down, rear hinge & joint just starting, two seminary stickers on spine. 1803 Full-Leather. xiii, 388, [2] pp. Alciphron is a Christian apologetic in answer to the 'minute philosophers' of Berkeley's day, who sought to minimize the the dignity of man. Berkeley is known as an advocate of subjective idealism (which he called immaterialism), which st... View more info
By: Besant, Annie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Rajput Press: 1909
Seller ID: 1947017
Jacket edges rubbed with some loss. 1909 Soft Cover. 16 pp. Original wrappers, shoestring binding, onion skin jacket. An early reprint of a lecture delivered in the City Temple, London, October 10, 1907, originally published in The Christian Commonwealth. Annie Besant was the president of the Theosophical Society, whose members had as their goal the attainment of knowledge of God. She traveled extensively studying different religious traditions. This short speech is an a... View more info
By: Bjelic, Dusan I.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: MIT Press: 2005
Seller ID: 2269637
Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejoratively to refer to excessive specializatio... View more info
By: Blofeld, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: A Dutton Paperback: 1974
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2269071
First printing. Minor general wear. 1974 Mass Market Paperback. 164 pp. What has Eastern mysticism to offer the West? How can we free ourselves from the pressures of modern life, or benefit from Eastern methods of cultivating the sublime mystical experience? Throughout John Blofeld's new book runs the them that true mystics transcend religious boundaries--and that Eastern mysticism has increasing relevance for the troubled minds and spirits of the West. Blofeld's approac... View more info
By: Bok, Sissela
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Pantheon Books: 1989
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 1524694
First thus. Lightly rubbed.Very Good. 1989 Hard Cover. 202 pp. Books one and two together in one volume. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sissela Bok, born 2 December 1934, is a Swedish-born philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her ... View more info
By: Bourke, Joanna
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262809
First edition. Faint rubbing to jacket. 2006 Hard Cover. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian and prize-winning author Joanna Bourke covers the landscape of fear over the past two hundred years: From the nineteenth century dread of being buried alive — a subject dear to the heart of Edgar Allen Poe — to the current worry over being able to die when one chooses; from the diagnoses of phobias and anxieties produced by psychotherapists and lovingly catalogue... View more info
