Penguin Books, June 2021. Paper Back. A slim volume featuring Georges Perec's writings on the simple task of arranging books and what it can reveal about life One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who..... More
Modern Library, 1944. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 7'} In dustjacket with darkened spine and edgewear with large chipping/tears in several places. Verso darkened tanned with list of 299 ML titles. Back panel has 'The Best of the World's Best Books' promotion with mail in coupon in tact. Grey cloth..... More
Charles Scribner, January 1951. Reprint. Cloth. Early printing. Octavo in tattered & torn dustjacket with foxing/tanning to verso. Front flap is not clipped. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine & front panel. Tanning/foxing of end pages with previous owner's address stamp FFEP. Darkening to textblock edges. Sound..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, March 2009. Trade Paperback. The finest introduction to "the greatest philosopher of the 20th century" (New York Times Book Review), including the complete text of the Tractatus, The Blue and Brown Books, and On Certainty Major Works is the first single-volume English anthology of Ludwig Wittgenstein's..... More
Penguin Books, September 2005. Trade Paperback. "Although I cannot tell for certain what sparked my interest in the neural underpinnings of reason, I do know when I became convinced that the traditional views on the nature of rationality could not be correct." Thus begins a book that takes the reader..... More
Vintage, December 1989. Trade Paperback. Shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality. More
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, June 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Arcturus, January 2015. Trade Paperback. More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1957. Trade Paperback. In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near dispair, Siddhartha comes..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 2009. Trade Paperback. A New York Times-bestselling breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from the one of the world's leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking. The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, February 2001. Trade Paperback. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic..... More
Blackwell Pub, October 1989. Trade Paperback. In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience. More
Penguin Classics, August 2003. Trade Paperback. A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day--Martin Heidegger..... More
University of Chicago Press, May 1984. First Thus. Paper Back. "As Professor Fazlur Rahman shows in the latest of a series of important contributions to Islamic intellectual history, the characteristic problems of the Muslim modernists-the adaptation to the needs of the contemporary situation of a holy book which draws its..... More
I. B. Tauris In Association With The Institute Of Ismaili Studies, March 2012. Paper Back. In 1932, the eminent British scholar of Islam, Sir Hamilton Gibb, wrote: "The nobility and broad tolerance of this religion [Islam], which accepted all the real religions of the world as God-inspired, will always be..... More
I. B. Tauris, December 1999. First Thus. Paper Back. Nasir al-Din Tusi, the renowned Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a wide range of writings in different fields of learning under Ismaili patronage and later under the Mongols. "Contemplation and Action" is his autobiography, in which he recounts details..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture--and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly..... More
Dutton, October 1993. Trade Paperback. "It is hard to be brave, " said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a very small animal." Yet Piglet -- with his keen eye for every pitfall -- is asked to be brave again and again. When it comes to problems or facing any..... More
Bobbs-Merrill Co. / The Library of Liberal Arts, June 1977. Reprint. Paper Back. One moderate stain rear cover and darkening/mild stains over much of the rest of the cover. Clean, unmarked interiors. [251 pp. plus four page list of Library of Liberal Arts titles.}. More
Liberal Arts Press/ Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc., January 1977. Reprint. Paper Back. 9th printing.. Mild toning. [163 pages plus 4 page Library of Liberal Arts catalog]. More
Collier Books, August 1987. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Underlining and marginally markings. [157 pages]. More
Dover, 1946. Soft Cover. Edgeworn with creases. [160 pages plus 8 page Dover catalogue.]. More
Oxford University Press, September 1981. Paper Back. Mild soiling and streaking to cover. [177 pages.]. More
Penguin Classics, September 2007. Trade Paperback. Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the..... More
University of Virginia Press, October 1980. Trade Paperback. Can anyone speak a language he or she has not learned normally, in childhood or later? Claims to have accomplished this are made from time to time, but only rarely do they receive support when carefully examined. In this volume, Dr. Stevenson..... More
