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
Collier Books, January 1962. First Thus. Paper Back. First Collier mass market edition. Previous reader's name written in ink on first inside page. [318 pages]. 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
Oxford University Press, USA, December 2010. Hardcover. For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us..... 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, February 2004. Hardcover. Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the..... 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
Modern Library, May 1999. Paper Back. Called a 'masterpiece' by 'The Literary Review, ' London, this brilliant yet accessible memoir by an outstanding contemporary philosopher introduces readers to all the major figures of Western philosophy. Previous owner's name. 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
Oxford University Press, USA, June 2005. Hardcover. The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to..... More
Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1967. Paper Back. Cover wear; previous owner's name. 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
Yale University Press, September 1959. Trade Paperback. 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
Metro Books, January 2011. Flexible Boards. 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
Alfred Knopf, November 1970. Reprint. Cloth. {7.5 inches x 10 inches}. White cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Darkening to spine edge and along raised hinges. Black cloth covered boards with stamped gold illustration in center of front board. Non-authorial inscription front free end page. In black paper covered slipcase..... More
Dutton / Dent, January 1951. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo in heavily chipped, tattered & torn DJ. Darkened & dust stained. Flap is not clipped. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Streaking across front panel. Washed out splotches on rear panel and to a lesser extent along fore-edge of..... More
J.M. Dent & Co, January 1948. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. In tattered, torn, edgeworn dustjacket with darkened margins and spine. Flap not clipped. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine. A previous reader's bookplate affixed to ffep. Top textblock edge tinted a faded, muddy grey. Stamped 'Jul 1967' on..... More
Pantheon Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Northwestern University Press, July 1989. Trade Paperback. This collection of essays on communicative theory and praxis from the eminent Merleau-Ponty scholar and translator John O'Neill explores the thesis that the human body is the exemplary ground of all other communicative processes. A very crisp, clean copy. More
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., December 2006. Trade Paperback. A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important, and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large portions of A...... More
Humanist Press, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
