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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...
Edmund Burke
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Author: Isaac KramnickBinding: PaperbackPublished: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor stains on book block. This compelling biography...
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 Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and Corruption of Popular
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The vise-grip of moral relativism on American popular culture was not suddenly achieved in the 1960s. In an incisive book of unequaled historical scope, Robert H. Knight studies this alluring...
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science
In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance...
Marx & Engels: Selected Works in Two Volumes
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Author: Karl Marx And Frederick EngelsBinding: HardbackPublished: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerKarl Marx's seminal work, Marx's...
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann , 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: like new; top of spine tannedLady Chatterley's Lover...
A Treasury Of Kahlil Gibran
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Author: Kahlil GibranBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann: London, 1975Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection presents the profound spiritual and philosophical writings of a celebrated poet and artist....
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...
Venice
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Author: Adrian Stokes. John Piper (Illustrator)Binding: HardbackPublished: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume, Venice, presents a profound meditation on...
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...
On The Outskirts
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Author: Michael FraynBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsOn The Outskirts presents a compelling collection of Michael Frayn's incisive essays and journalistic pieces, offering a keen-eyed...
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...
God, Man And The Universe: A Christian Answer To Modern Materialism
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Author: Jacques De Rivort De La SaudéeBinding: HardbackPublished: BURNS & OATES, 2017Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis theological work presents a comprehensive Catholic understanding of existence,...
Basic Writings: From Being And Time (1927) To The Task Of Thinking (1964)
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Author: Martin HeideggerBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis seminal collection, Basic Writings: From Being And Time (1927) To The Task...
Gagudju Man: The Environmental And Spiritual Philosophy Of A Senior Traditional Owner Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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Author: Bill NeidjieBinding: HardbackPublished: Greater BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis profound work presents the environmental and spiritual philosophy of Bill Neidjie, a senior traditional owner of Kakadu National Park....
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...
Three Plays
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Author: Jean-Paul SartreBinding: PaperbackPublished: PENGUIN BOOKS, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling collection presents three seminal works by the influential philosopher...
The World's Most Evil Men: Terrifying True Stories of the Most
Step into the sinister world of history's most notorious villains and explore the twisted motivations of evil men from around the world Ever wondered what has driven some men to...
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...
Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times
'This remarkable book points not to some unreachable ideal of life but to a deeper, more soulful and meaningful experience of the lives we're actually living.' Oliver Burkeman 'A rich...
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...
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as...
The Freedom to Be Free
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without...
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written...
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-76
A devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilisation, from one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century Society Must Be Defended is taken...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio
Seen as the original Existentialist, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature. Fear and Trembling, his great work of religious anxiety portraying Abraham's...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s reflections on love and its transformative power-a stellar addition to Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. "I have also decided...
Equality: The history of an elusive idea
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...
Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the World
FRIENDSHIP IS THE GREAT LOVE STORY WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. Friendship is good for your health. Studies show that loneliness is as deadly as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. Still,...