Dover Publications, October 2011. Paper Back. Best known for his philosophical novel Candide, Voltaire ranked among the leading intellectuals of the Enlightenment period. His two-and-a-half-year sojourn in England left a profound impression, and these letters -- written as though explaining English society to a French friend -- focus on the..... More

Ballantine Books, April 1993. Paper Back. "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the..... More

Harper Perennial, November 2007. Trade Paperback. Water from the Well is a journey four thousand years back to the time of Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah. The graceful prose of renowned author Anne Roiphe brilliantly captures these biblical women and makes their fascinating stories come alive. As each story unfolds..... More

Penguin Books, August 1980. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd printing. Mass market paperback. [331 pages plus three pages of then currently available Pelican titles.}. More

Orion Publishing, October 2006. Hardcover. ""Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failurethose things . . . are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives."" Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and..... More

Oxford University Press, USA, December 2006. Paper Back. Moral problems do not always come in the form of great social controversies. More often, the moral decisions we make are made quietly, constantly, and within the context of everyday activities and quotidian dilemmas. Indeed, these smaller decisions are based on a...... More

Cambridge University Press, July 1994. Paper Back. This is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant's ethics available. It approaches the moral theory via the political philosophy, thus allowing the reader to appreciate why Kant argued that the legal structure for any civil society must have a moral..... More

Yale University Press, October 2011. First Edition. Cloth. For readers of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history's greatest philosophers to life "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy..... More

Harper Torchbooks, 1963. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo with worn edges, darkened spine. Creased lower right corner. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [184 pages]. More

HarperCollins Publishers, August 2006. Paper Back. In this fascinating installment of the New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About(R) series, Kenneth C. Davis explores the great myths of the world and their implications for art, science, religion and culture throughout history. What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the..... More

Princeton University Press, June 1979. Trade Paperback. From one of the major figures of twentieth-century intellectual life, an incisive critique of faith and reason in the secular age Originally published in 1958, Critique of Religion and Philosophy is Walter Kaufmann's luminous appraisal of the orthodoxies of his day. Although he..... More

Oxford University Press, 1978. Trade Paperback. Reprinted from the original edition in three volumes and edited, with an analytical index, by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Revised by P. H. Nidditch. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More

Cambridge University Press, March 1999. Paper Back. Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. This Companion offers an introduction to the history and characteristics of liberation theology in its various forms in different parts of the world. Through a sequence..... More