Prometheus Books, May 1998. Paper Back. Comparing the lived world with the ideal world, noted American philosophical naturalist, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) seeks in this influential compilation of his earlier works to outline the ancient ideal of a well-ordered life, one in which reason is the organizing..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 1993. Paper Back. Principia Ethica is recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory. The text is reprinted here with the previously unpublished preface Moore wrote for a planned, but never completed, second edition. Though unfinished, it sets out clearly Moore's second thoughts about..... More
Penguin Classics, March 1984. Trade Paperback. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment..... More
Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1991. Paper Back. Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity..... More
Stanford University Press, June 1990. Hardcover. Our usual representations of the opposition between the civilized and the primitive derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object..... More
St. Martin's Press, June 1989. Hardcover. In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is being restored at the leading edge of science. Myths that have been created by us are not merely parables but rather the wisdom of past and perhaps more observant generations. More
Penguin USA, 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs." Mass market. Edgeworn and dust stained. Slightly cocked spine. [297 pages]. More
Peter Bedrick Books, June 1986. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with foxing and moderate edgewear. Black paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. [224 pages]. More
Brandeis University Press, March 2001. Hardcover. Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. Born between 1914 and 1928 (approximately), they were old enough to..... More
Cambridge University Press, July 1996. Paper Back. What are the effects of growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust? Drawing on interviews and survey materials, Aaron Hass provides a vibrant account of the experiences of survivors' children. Now in their thirties and forties, these men and women describe their..... More
Penguin Classics, 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Classics, September 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his..... More
Penguin Classics, November 1961. Trade Paperback. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and..... More
National Textbook Company, January 1983. Paper Back. {6' x 9'} Well worn. 'Milton' written in ballpoint bottom textblock edge. Previous owner's name & school and date written in blue ballpoint verso of front cover. Damp stained rear cover. [295 pp.]. More
Open Court, January 1999. Paper Back. To many, a Nietzschean defense of democracy may seem oxymoronic, but Hatab squarely confronts the staunchly antidemocratic tendencies in Nietzsche's writings and offers a surprisingly convincing critique of them based on other aspects of Nietzsche's thought. All who are indebted to Nietzsche for their..... More
Humanities Press, 1980. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with curled edges, marginal darkening and foxing/darkening of verso. Blue-grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Heavy dust staining top textblock edge. Quite faded rubber stamp to fore-edge. [317 pp.]. More
HarperSanFrancisco, May 1995. Trade Paperback. In the spirit of the popular "Angel Wisdom" this lovely gift book offers daily inspiration from the words and deeds of our best-loved saints. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, September 2014. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A lucid, intelligent page-turner" (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he..... More
HarperResource, December 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
HarperResource, February 1994. Oversized Hardcover. More
HarperCollins Publisher, August 1989. Oversized Hardcover. More
Harpercollins Publisher, November 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
HarperResource, November 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
Doubleday, May 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1976. Soft Cover. More
