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Hopeful Monsters
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the turbulent intellectual and political landscape of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century,...
Self-Unfoldment: By Disciplines Of Realization
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a world consumed by external noise and distraction, Manly P. Hall's Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of...
While The Gods Play: Shaiva Oracles And Predictions On The Cycles Of History And The Destiny Of Mankind
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Edition: First US EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most authoritative interpreters of Hindu philosophy and religion comes...
Three Lives
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to live not one life, but three — each separated by death, each carrying...
Wisdom Of The Ancients
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the greatest secrets of existence had...
Candlelight
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the flickering tradition of mystical autobiography, Candlelight presents another chapter in the extraordinary spiritual odyssey of T....
As It Was!
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind one of the twentieth century's most captivating and controversial literary personas lies a story that defies easy...
Beyond The Tenth
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat lies beyond the boundaries of ordinary human perception, and can a single man truly bridge the gap...
Twilight
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of Eastern mysticism and Western curiosity stands Twilight, a compelling autobiographical narrative by T. Lobsang...
Engels
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in modern history have cast as long and consequential a shadow as Friedrich Engels — the industrialist's son who became the intellectual architect...
Bricks To Babel: Selected Writings With Author's Comments
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the restless, brilliant mind that gave us Darkness at Noon and The Act of Creation comes Bricks...
Essays: Last Essays And In A Strange Land
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingEric Gill — sculptor, typographer, printmaker, and one of the most provocative Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century — gathers his final meditations into...
Frame Analysis
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to make sense of a situation — and who decides what sense is? In...
Makers Of Modern Culture
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWho are the minds that shaped the modern world? Makers of Modern Culture is an authoritative and wide-ranging biographical reference...
The Right to Sex: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2022
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what...
Meetings with Remarkable Men
An exhilarating, life-affirming travelogue and a provocative, rallying invocation to the search for spiritual truth 'Gurdjieff asks us why we are here, what we wish for, what forces we obey....
Beyond Happy: How to Rethink Happiness and Find Fulfilment
A comprehensive guide to cultivating wellbeing, combining cutting edge science and primordial folk wisdom. 'A brilliant read... a gamechanger' Paul Ross, Talk Sport 'Essential reading... Written with clarity, vivacity and...
The Common Good
From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center...
Who Rules the World?
'As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, the powerful can do as they please and those who survive will be...
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text...
Mill
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The book titled Mill by the author William Thomas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
A compelling exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday...
Darwin On Man: A Psychological Study Of Scientific Creativity
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a scientific genius to overturn centuries of accepted wisdom, and what does the inner life of...
The Film Sense
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of art, science, and revolutionary thought, The Film Sense stands as one of the most...
Unamuno
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the landscape of modern European thought, few figures loom as large or as enigmatically as Miguel de Unamuno — the Spanish...
Rozanov
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerVasily Rozanov stands as one of the most provocative and enigmatic figures in Russian intellectual history, a writer whose radical subjectivity and...
Bertrand Russell: The Spirit Of Solitude
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Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Very goodPages: FEP missingCondition remarks: Note: fep missing, damaged front pastedown - otherwise internally sound. Clean and bright copy. At the intersection of towering intellect and profound...
The Nature And Types Of Sociological Theory
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of ideas, history, and human behaviour stands sociological theory — and Don Martindale's The Nature and Types...
A Fantasy Of Reason: The Life And Thought Of William Godwin
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of the radical Enlightenment stood William Godwin — philosopher, novelist, and anarchist thinker whose audacious ideas electrified late eighteenth-century Britain and whose...
Kafka's Trial: The Case Against Josef K.
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Glue marks on front end and end pages - pages...
The Necessity For Love: The History Of Interpersonal Relations
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat drives the human need to connect, to belong, and to love — and how has that need shaped civilisation across the centuries? The...
The Sleepwalkers
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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsWhat happens when the greatest scientific revolutions in human history are driven not by cold logic, but by mysticism, obsession,...
Hinduism
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew subjects in the history of human civilization are as vast, ancient, and misunderstood as Hinduism, and Nirad C. Chaudhuri's landmark study cuts through...
An Autobiographical Study
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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern intellectual history have reshaped our understanding of the human mind as...
Nationalism And The State
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew forces have shaped the modern world as profoundly as nationalism, and John Breuilly's landmark study Nationalism and...
Voltaire's Politics: The Poet As Realist
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of history's most brilliantly subversive minds turns its full satirical power upon the machinery...
The Lotus And The Robot
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most incisive Western minds turns his gaze upon the ancient civilisations...
Nations And States: An Enquiry Into The Origins Of Nations And The Politics Of Nationalism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat forges a collection of people into a nation, and what happens when the state they inhabit refuses to recognise them as one? Nations...
The Lectures Of Professor T. G. Masaryk At The University Of Chicago: Summer 1902
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1902, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and future founding president of Czechoslovakia — delivered a remarkable series of lectures...
Pasts And Futures: Or What Is History For?
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat is the true purpose of history — and who does it serve? In Pasts and Futures: Or What is History For?, Jean Chesneaux...
Hobbes & His Critics: A Study In Seventeenth Century Constitutionalism
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century English political thought stands Thomas Hobbes — a figure so radical,...
Figures Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**A landmark in the annals of French literary criticism, Figures II stands as the second volume in Gérard Genette's celebrated...
Out Of Step: An Unquiet Life In The 20Th Century
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew intellectual lives of the twentieth century were as turbulent, courageous, or consequential as that of Sidney Hook — philosopher, pragmatist, and...
Climbing Mount Improbable
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat appears to be an insurmountable cliff face of biological complexity — the human eye, the spider's web,...
The Dream Of Kilimanjaro
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn The Dream of Kilimanjaro, Swedish diplomat and naturalist Rolf Edberg presents a profound meditation on humanity's relationship with the natural world,...
Men And Saints: Prose And Poetry
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Pages: tanning and foxing. Internally sound. At the crossroads of...
The Origins Of History
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of faith, philosophy, and scholarship, The Origins of History presents Herbert Butterfield's sweeping meditation on how human beings first came to...
Marcuse
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age of conformity and consumerism, Herbert Marcuse stood as one of the twentieth century's most electrifying...