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The Advancement Of Learning
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Author: Francis BaconBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Advancement of Learning presents a compelling philosophical treatise on the state and future of human knowledge. This seminal work...
The Ideal Worlds Of Economics: Liberal, Radical, And Conservative Economic World Views
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Author: Benjamin WardBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis academic work presents a comprehensive analysis of the foundational philosophies underpinning various economic systems. It meticulously details...
In A Valley Of This Restless Mind
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Author: Malcolm MuggeridgeBinding: HardbackPublished: COLLINS, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn this poignant memoir, In A Valley Of This Restless Mind, Malcolm Muggeridge chronicles a life lived with...
Experiences
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Author: Arnold ToynbeeBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsExperiences presents the profound reflections of a renowned historian, chronicling his personal and intellectual...
Tertium Organum: The Third Canon Of Thought A Key To The Enigmas Of The World
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Author: P. D. Ouspensky. Translated from the russian by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon. With an introduction by Claude Bragdon.Binding: HardbackPublished: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1957Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust...
Utopias: Papers From The Annual Symposium Of The Australian Academy Of The Humanities
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Author: Eugene KamenkaBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work meticulously examines the multifaceted concept of utopia throughout history. It critically analyzes the...
The Knee Of Listening: The Early-Life Ordeal And The "Radical" Spiritual Realization Of The Divine World-Teacher And True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")
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Author: Da Avabhasa (The "Bright")Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Dawn Horse Press, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis profound spiritual autobiography, The Knee Of...
Art And Anarchy
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Author: Edgar WindBinding: HardbackPublished: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsArt And Anarchy by Edgar Wind is a seminal work in art criticism, presenting a profound...
The Wisdom Of Science: Its Relevance To Culture & Religion
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Author: Hanbury BrownBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis insightful non-fiction work presents a profound examination of the intricate...
Argument Of Laughter
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Author: D. H. MonroBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1951Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerArgument Of Laughter presents a compelling philosophical inquiry into...
In Soft Garments: A Collection Of Oxford Conferences
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Author: Ronald A. KnoxBinding: HardbackPublished: BURNS OATES, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerIn In Soft Garments, Ronald Knox presents a collection of incisive essays from a...
Basic Christian Ethics
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Author: Paul RamseyBinding: HardbackPublished: SCM PRESS LTD, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis foundational work in theological ethics presents a...
The Abuse Of Casuistry: A History Of Moral Reasoning
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Author: Albert R. Jonsen, Stephen ToulminBinding: PaperbackPublished: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Abuse of Casuistry: A History...
God And The Atom
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Author: Ronald KnoxBinding: HardbackPublished: London : Sheed and Ward, 1945Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis intellectual work presents a compelling argument for the compatibility of faith...
Barthes and the Empire of Signs
Barthes and the Empire of Signs follows him in exploring the nature of 'representation' itself. Is it possible to reconcile appearance and reality? Or imaginative recreation and fact? How do...
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing
The Italian colour bible- a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer Have you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black...
Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
*Out now: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information* __________ In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory...
Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas
According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from...
In the Name of Peace: How History's Great Pacifists Changed the World
In the Name of Peace discusses the leaders, great and small, whose adherence to nonviolence, even in the face of ruinous opposition, has changed the course of history. Pacifist leaders...
Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1
Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes. These essays develop a nuanced account of the semantics and pragmatics of our talk...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
Primitive Man As Philosopher
Primitive Man as Philosopher is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux,...
The Invention of Surgery
"Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing." " - The Wall Street Journal "A globetrotting historical adventure, told from the inside of the operating room... Medical writing at...
Tao of Motherhood
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The book titled Tao of Motherhood by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Riddles of Existence
The questions of metaphysics are among the deepest and most puzzling. What is time? Am I free in my actions? What makes me the same person I was as a...
The actor's brain: Exploring the cognitive neuroscience of free will
Is free will just an illusion? What is it within the brain that allows us to pursue our own actions and objectives? What is it about this organ that permits...
Popular History Of Philosophy
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Author: Rev. Msgr. Teodoro De La Torre, S.T.D., Ph.D.Binding: PaperbackPublished: Lumen Christi Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePopular History Of Philosophy...
Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind
Far more than we tend to realise, we're all - in private - deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether our hopes...
China under Reform
The book titled China under Reform by the author Caroline Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains 23 newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various...
Political Ideals
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Author: Bertrand RussellBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerPolitical Ideals presents a foundational examination of the principles that should guide...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the...
The People's Rights
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Author: Winston S. Churchill M.PBinding: HardbackPublished: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded DJ with minor abrasionThis book presents a compelling exploration into the...
All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret
'Powerful and profound' Deirdre Purcell 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom learned the tough way' Joseph O'Connor For almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been...
Facing Evil: Confronting the Dreadful Power Behind Genocide, Terroism,
From the Holocaust to the destruction of the World Trade Center, evil human acts continue to defy all attempts at explanation. This collection of lectures on evil by prominent scholars,...
Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life
Why is 'being happy' such an imperative nowadays? What meaning do people give happiness? In this book Abbot Christopher turns to monastic wisdom to offer answers and to explain that...
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Whether it's horror at plastic littering the world's beaches, or despair at the melting of the polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster....
The Road To Serfdom
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Author: P. A. HayekBinding: HardbackPublished: SYDNEY: DYMOCK'S BOOK ARCADE LTD., 1944Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards show aging and yellowing. Only the front panel and front...
History Of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection With Political And Social Circumstances From The Earliest Times To The Present Day
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Author: Bertrand RussellBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1946Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards show yellowing with...
The Environmental Memory: Man And Architecture In The Landscape Of Ideas
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Author: Malcolm QuantrillBinding: HardbackPublished: SCHOCKEN BOOKS, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis academic work, The Environmental Memory: Man And Architecture In The Landscape Of Ideas, presents a profound...
Intellectual Movements And Australian Society
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Author: Brian Head And James WalterBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: small chip at the backIn Intellectual Movements And Australian Society, this...
Theories And Narratives: Reflections On The Philosophy Of History
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Author: Alex CallinicosBinding: PaperbackPublished: Duke University Press, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work critically examines the foundational theories and narrative...
A Study Of History: The First Abridged One-Volume Edition Illustrated
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Author: Arnold ToynbeeBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: dust jacket worn and tanned; some mildew spotting on inside dust flaps and first...
God Of A Thousand Faces
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Author: Michael Falconer AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Lutterworth Press, 1989Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Book in excllent condition. DJ a little scuffed with some small tears.The title...
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and
'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan ' Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement ' Tom Holland 'Elegant and powerful, Pepera's magnificent book elevates our...
Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating exploration of our moral universe We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they are the pets we keep,...
All Desire is a Desire for Being
A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desire Rene Girard eludes easy categories, bridging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, sociology,...
Being Happy
'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' Being Happy contains all of the extant writing by Epicurus - one of the most...