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Penguin Classics relaunch Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his...

Author: Jan MielBinding: HardbackPublished: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work meticulously examines the profound theological dimensions embedded within the philosophical writings of...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedCondition remarks: Tanning from sticker over original price.Before personal computing became a household concept, a handful of visionary authors were quietly laying the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of rigorous logic and elegant structure, Pascal: An Introduction to Methodical Programming presents a definitive...

Penguin Classics relaunch Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of logical thinking and elegant code, Structured Problem Solving with Pascal presents a rigorous and...

Author: Auguste PiccardBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew documents capture the glittering and scandalous heart of nineteenth-century Parisian literary life quite like the diary kept...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have...

The beloved multidisciplinary classic on the spaces we inhabit and the dreams and memories that fill them A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in...

'The decade's most stimulating art book' Financial Times A Guardian History Book of the Year 'For those, though, who relish brilliant analysis of painting - as well as former students...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the era when structured programming was reshaping the landscape of computer science, Pascal With Style: Programming Proverbs...

Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces....

The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin Classics Written over 350 years ago, The Pocket Oracle and the Art of...

Louis Pasteur's passion for laboratory experiments led to major, life-saving changes in medicine. His research targeted unusual problems from the spoiling of wine to disease in French silkworms. His wide-ranging...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. From the sweeping intellectual currents of the nineteenth century to the radical...

Author: P.C.W. DaviesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Yellowed and faded cover. Light creasing on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew scholars have mapped the contours of aesthetic history with the elegance and erudition of Mario Praz, and...

Author: James B. LeslieBinding: PaperbackPublished: International Cultural Corporation., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Bumps and minor chipping to spine.-

Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In Memoires Interieurs, Nobel Prize-winning French author...

The book titled All the World's Mornings by the author Pascal Quignard. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...

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Author: C. Stephen EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Indiana University Press, 1992Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed exploration into the philosophical fragments of Kierkegaard. Evans analyzes the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century embody the collision between artistic genius and political tyranny as profoundly as Boris Pasternak — poet, novelist,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLautrec chronicles the vibrant, often tumultuous life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the iconic French...

Louis de Wet (1930 2018) was an artistphilosopher born in South Africa. Over the course of his life, he created a significant body of meticulously crafted drawings and paintings, using...

Condition remarks: Condition: fair to poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In this evocative biographical study, Maurice Pasteur Vallery-Radot offers...

In this life of Baudelaire (1821-67) Claude Pichois has drawn on a century's worth of research and scholarship. Baudelaire's short life was a frought one, plagued by disease, impecuniousness and...

'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner 'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures loom as large over the nineteenth century as Honoré de Balzac, and Félicien Marceau's Balzac and His World presents...

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Author: Richard F. Clarke, S.J.Binding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Overall a nice copy with a few pencil underlinings. Slight loosening...

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The book titled Picasso by the author Robin Langley Sommer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: One large tear at back of jacket. otherwise structural A landmark work of Catholic biblical scholarship, The Christian...

Author: Francis SteegmullerBinding: HardbackPublished: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cloth cover has wear, spine has significant tanning and water staining (see...

Author: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mary Chamot (trans)Binding: HardbackPublished: Hyperion Press, 1939Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cloth cover has foxing/staining, pages have very light...

One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed after being falsely accused of killing his...