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On Human Nature
$14.95 Add to cartA brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of hum- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183031
- Language: English
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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
$31.00 Read moreHearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study to
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Erlmann, Veit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408054
- Language: English
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This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
$28.00 Read moreAn acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living
You didn’t choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions–this delicate and difficult
- Author: Riggle, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675509
- Language: English
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
$24.95 Add to cartAn invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everyb- Author: Hitz, Zena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691178712
- Language: English
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Bug Music
$21.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen-year cycle–the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experienced this great sonic invasio
- Author: Rothenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1250045053
- Language: English
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Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée Sauvage”
$34.50 Read moreAs the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguisti
- Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 022641308X
- Language: English
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No-Cosas. Quiebras del Mundo de Hoy / Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld
$17.95 Read more«HOY ESTAMOS EN LA TRANSICIÓN DE LA ERA DE LAS COSAS A LA ERA DE LAS NO-COSAS. NO SON LAS COSAS, SINO LA INFORMACIÓN, LO QUE DETERMINA EL MUNDO EN QUE VIVIMOS.
El mundo se vacÃa de cosas y se- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 6073806515
- Language: Spanish
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Disciplined Mind
$19.99 Add to cartThis brilliant and revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences reexamines the goals of education to support a more educated society for future generations.Howard Gardner’s concept of multiple intel… [more below]
- Author: Gardner, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982142219
- Language: English
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Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
$18.95 Add to cartThe questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? Wha… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Steinbock, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0197657966
- Language: English
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Freedom and Human Achievement
$33.27 Add to cartEvery child has an inalienable right to be born Free of debt.
When Government grows it picks winners, makes losers…and the common man loses every time.
Throughout recorded history, taxation has been u
- Author: Love, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 195967756X
- Language: English
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The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
$25.95 Read moreSo said Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine in 1953 but refused to patent it–forgoing profit so that more lives could be saved.
Salk’s radical generosity to future generations should inspire … [more below]
- Author: Krznaric, Roman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1615197303
- Language: English
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Sociology Is a Martial Art: Political Writings by Pierre Bourdieu
$31.10 Add to cartSociology is a Martial Art is an accessible survey of Pierre Bourdieu’s most influential writings. It includes the full text of his short books Acts of Resistance, Firing Back, and On Television, in a… [more below]
- Author: Sapiro, Gisele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 16 2010
- ISBN10: 1595585435
- Language: English
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On Truth
$14.99 Add to cartTruth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal tr… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190867213
- Language: English
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Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
$18.99 Add to cartUnfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroe… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1568584784
- Language: English
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Stephen King and Philosophy
$29.93 Add to cartHaunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem’s Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Sematary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science… [more below]
- Series: Great Authors and Philosophy
- Author: Held, Jacob M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1442253843
- Language: English
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When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
$18.95 Add to cartWhy the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today’s epidemic of irrationality
There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, ev- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0691227950
- Language: English
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Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition
$12.00 Add to cartSelf Study is a genre-bending work of autophilosophy. It opens a rare, rear window into the schizoid position of self-sufficient withdrawal and impassive indifference. This inability to be enriched by
- Author: Kishik, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 3965580450
- Language: English
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On Fear
$16.99 Add to cartOn Fear is a collection of Krishnamurti’s most profound observations and thoughts on how fear and dependence affect our lives and prevent us from seeing our true selves. Among the many questions Krish
- Author: Krishnamurti, Jiddu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 16 1994
- ISBN10: 0062510142
- Language: English
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How to Survive the Modern World: Making Sense Of, and Finding Calm In, Unsteady Times
$32.99 Add to cartA hopeful guide to living well in the 21st century.
The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transportation. But with these advanc
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1912891530
- Language: English
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America
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night–“a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”–Baudrillard mixes aper us and observations with a wicked sense of fu… [more below]
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2010
- ISBN10: 184467682X
- Language: English
