Vintage, January 2008. Trade Paperback. From the new afterword by the author: Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who..... More
Clarendon Press, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A stellar selection of the world's most eminent philosophers give a picture of the current state of their subject, where it is going, and where it ought to be steered. Each offers a penetrating analysis of his or her particular specialism, building a volume..... More
State University of New York Press, November 1986. Paper Back. These essays offer a fascinating and lively synopsis of the work of some of the most important thinkers in Britain today. The authors represent a wide cross-section of BritainÕs current philosophical spectrum, resulting in a stimulating intellectual profile of the..... More
Oxford University Press, July 2004. Paper Back. Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion..... More
Penguin USA, December 1995. Trade Paperback. 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 reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal..... More
Surabhi Prakash, 2004. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Clean, sound, without markings. [194 pages]. More
Simon & Schuster, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in jacket with rough -- one inch by once inch by one inch -- edged triangle shaped tear at top edge of rear DJ panel. Also foxing & staining to jacket with one inch closed tear across front panel near top..... More
Putnam / Capricorn, January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/4'} In heavily darkened at spines with scattered foxing over white areas of design. Also worn at edges top and bottom, especially to top & bottom of spine. Pickle green cloth. Gold lettering along spine. Tanning..... More
Bobbs-Merrill Company, January 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound. [202 pages]. More
Eerdmans, January 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Zondervan, 1971. Hardcover. cloth cover in very good condition with crisp corners; very minimal shelf wear at top and bottom of spine; couple of small marks on back cover and some shelf wear along top of back cover; little-to-no page yellowing; pages are bright and crisp; good tight binding. More
harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. Hardcover. No dust jacket; cloth cover faded along edges, but spine lettering is crisp and clear, unfaded; bidning is ib very good condition; page yellowing as would be expected from age, but pages are still bright. More
Harpercollins, January 1992. Trade Paperback. A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the room..... More
Liveright, April 2013. Trade Paperback. Tackling the darkest question in all of philosophy with raffish erudition (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 2010. Reprint. Cloth. What does Anthony Grayling think about atheism? Adrian Moore about infinity? For the last three years, some of the world's leading philosophers have held forth on their favorite topics on the immensely popular website philosophybites.com. The site now features more than one..... More
Orion Publishing, October 2004. Paper Back. Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top philosopher. 'Human genius has done much, and promises much, in the way of removing the mystery from many things in our..... More
Random House, January 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto. Two volume set. Black cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold lettering on spine. Titles framed in a brick red rectangle on both volumes with some mild stains and two quarter moon shaped bumps on front board of one volume. Top edges..... More
Pyramid Books, December 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent..... More
Three Leaves Publishing, June 2005. Stapled Soft Cover. This lively, easy-to-follow guide to Kabbalah introduces the ancient Jewish mystical tradition that has captured the interest of Hollywood stars and the general public alike. With celebrities like Madonna, Paris Hilton, Demi Moore, and Britney Spears announcing their fascination with Kabbalah, curiosity..... More
University Press of Kentucky, June 1983. Trade Paperback. Deconstruction -- a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the "Yale School" -- is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers..... More
Barnes & Noble Collector's Library, January 2004. Cloth. Beautiful pocket sized book bound in royal blue cloth with gilt edged pages and a sewn in silk bookmark. More
Feral House, June 2009. Oversize Softcover. The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered '60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times. Hundreds of black-cloaked devotees, often wearing a satanic "Goat of Mendes" and a swastika-like mandala, swept the streets of..... More
Modern Library, February 1965. Trade Paperback. Edited, with an Introduction, by Anton C. Pegis with selections from SUMMA THEOLOGICA and SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES. More
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, January 2003. Hardcover. A.C. Grayling examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present. Grayling focuses on the two very different conceptions of what a good life should be: one is a broadly secular view rooted in attitudes..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 2007. Hardcover. The phrase the meaning of life for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question..... More
