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Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 2002. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. The philosophy of Epictetus offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. The author offers an accessible study of Epictetus' argumentative and rhetorical methods. A study for anyone interested about how to live our lives. CONDITION: Black textured.....
Item #073276
University of Chicago Press, 1986. 1st Thus. paperback. Paperback. 1st Thus Edition. Glossy yellow covers with blue and red accents and white text. Briefly traces the life of the Vienna-born philosopher, examines his major works, and discusses the fundamental concepts of his philosophy. 156pp. CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are.....
Item #073453
London and New York: Hamish Hamilton, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it often the last pleasure we permit ourselves? And why despite.....
Item #039322
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1925. Hardcover. Bound in paneled burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. xiii 268pp. Cream dustjacket with burgundy lettering and decoration. CONDITION: Mild shelf wear. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are sound. Dustjacket has moderate soiling and significant edge wear along.....
Item #074807
New York / London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf in dipped ink, "For Dr. James W. Sherrill in memory of some interesting talks at La Jolla, Aldous Huxley, 1949." This fifth edition is bound in fire-engine red publisher's cloth.....
Item #074797
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Drawings: Henry Howard. Second Edition. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. On title page: "A Critical View of the General Hypotheses Respecting Beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, Etc. and Followed by A Similar View of the Hypotheses of Beauty in Sculpture and Painting by Leonardo.....
Item #071754
New York: Philosophical Library, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Nice copy. No writing in the book - not even an owner's name. Jacket is not price-clipped. 138 pp. Indexed. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #006362
Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1972. Paperback. Alfred Schutz attempts to provide a sound philosophical basis for the sociological theories of Max Weber. (From rear cover). CONDITION: Black paper covers entitled in white on front and spine. Reviews on rear. Previous owner's name on endpaper; remainder free of writing. xxxvi, Index.....
Item #072893
London: A Millar, 1745. Second Edition. Leather. Full calf with original leather spine label. Raised bands. Author's last name "Baxter" written on title page. Previous owner's personal library bookplate opposite Dedication page. 400pp. This is Volume 1 (of 2). Front hinge split (but holding strong). Full refund if not satisfied.....
Item #036737
Verso, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. There has been, over the last decades, a deep crisis in the models which, for a long time, have been central metaphors governing thought and research in the social sciences. The main symptom in this paradigmatic shift has been the increasing centrality of the discourse.....
Item #036871
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. Eleventh printing. Paperback. Eleventh printing. Paperback. Bound in white paper with black text. From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan.....
Item #073144
self published. First Edition. Paperback. Rear cover just a bit soiled (otherwise a very good copy). No writing in the book - not even an owners name. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #008287
New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc., [1917-1918]. Modern Library First Edition. Softcover. MODERN LIBRARY FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Bound in textured brown leatherette with gilt Modern Library embellishment and gilt lettering on the spine. Textured brown endpapers. Larger print. 182 pp. Toledano 1; Catalog 1. Endpaper A. Some wear and mild.....
Item #071896
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Size: 8vo. 358 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Philosophy; ISBN/EAN: 9780791412572. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. 8vo.
Item #047945
Cambridge University Press, 1997-11-28. Paperback. Near fine paperback. Clean white pages. This book would make a great gift. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #027741
St. Martin's Press, 1989. Hardcover. Near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket. Light shelf wear. Dust jacket has been placed in a Mylar sleeve. Clean white pages. This book would make a great gift. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #028510
Cambridge: University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gold lettering. lv, 460pp., index. Marginalia and underlining. Other volumes not published in 30's - in 1976 a larger single book was published. Internal ex-library marks. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #028066
New York / San Francisco/ St. Louis / Toronto / Lo: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968 copyright. Paperback. Contents include Science and Management with six sub chapters; The Maximum Loop with seven sub chapters; The Ethics of Whole Systems with three sub chapters. Index, 223 pp. CONDITION: Purple paper covers with.....
Item #073027
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1939. Black and White Illustrations. Third Printing. Hardcover. Bound in light green buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few black and white portraits. xiv 581pp. CONDITION: Mild shelf wear. Spine is sunned. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are.....
Item #074803
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Dust jacket lightly rubbed, name in ink on fly leaf. Size: Quarto. 341 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 pounds or less. Category: Philosophy; ISBN: 0262032244. ISBN/EAN: 9780262032247. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Quarto.....
Item #055950
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997. Paperback. Rare. Paperback. Date stamp on half title page. x, 263pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #039992
Paris: Babuty, Fils; Humblot, 1765. Hardcover. Contains previous owner's small inscription describing the author and editor: "par de Freval, publier par Goulin." A brief biography of Claude-François Guillemeau de Fréval follows: b. 1745, d. 1770, an adviser to parliament and a member of the academies de Bordeaux, de la Rochelle.....
Item #013889
Cambridge / London: Harvard University Press, 2004. hardcover. Hardcover. Bound in quarter dark teal cloth with light teal paper boards and silver foil text on the spine. How to imagine the imagination is a topic that draws philosophers the way flowers draw honeybees. From Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and.....
Item #073532
Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. First Edition Paperback. Paperback. First Paperback Edition. Winner of the 2004 Erving Goffman Award for outstanding scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction presented by the Media Ecology Association. Anton brings phenomenology and existential philosophy to wider audiences and makes complex.....
Item #073342
La Mirada, CA: Biola University, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Paperback. Like New. No writing in the book. 266 pp. including advertisements at back. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #026579