Chronological Period/Modern
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Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing
$26.95 Add to cartDesigned for philosophers as well as readers with no particular philosophical background, the essays in this lively book are grouped into four amusing acts. Act One looks at the four Seinfeld characte… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #1
- Author: Irwin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0812694090
- Language: English
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by
$80.00 Add to cartA panoramic history of rules in the Western world
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended ha- Series: Lawrence Stone Lectures #13
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0691156980
- Language: English
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
$20.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up … [more below]- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0804176744
- Language: English
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
$26.99 Add to cart“A stunning five-century study of civilization’s cultural retreat.” — William Safire, New York Times
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master his
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060928832
- Language: English
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Samurai and Ninja: The Real Story Behind the Japanese Warrior Myth That Shatters the Bushido Mystique
$15.95 Add to cartThe myths of the noble Samurai and the sinister Ninja are filled with romantic fantasy and fallacy.
Samurai and Ninja expert Antony Cummins shatters the myths and exposes the true nature of these genu- Author: Cummins, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 480531334X
- Language: English
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Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
$24.95 Add to cartAn entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought
This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the excitin- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0691168695
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
$24.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the Germ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 1995
- ISBN10: 679601759
- Language: English
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Spinoza
$12.99 Add to cartFather of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a visi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192803166
- Language: English
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Why I Am So Wise
$12.00 Add to cartThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036343
- Language: English
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Apollo Mission Control: The Making of a National Historic Landmark
$37.99 Add to cart- Series: Springer Praxis Books
- Author: Von Ehrenfried, Manfred Dutch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: July 04 2018
- ISBN10: 331976683X
- Language: English
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Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
$17.95 Add to cartWe are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the “supertall” megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history.
Cities around the worl
- Author: Al, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052090
- Language: English
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The Foucault Reader
$20.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary critici… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394713400
- Language: English
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is–Revised Edition
$15.00 Add to cartIn late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445153
- Language: English
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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
$15.99 Add to cartThe beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
“The journey began
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062230573
- Language: English
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
$14.95 Add to cartFrom the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James
In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216711
- Language: English
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The Collected Letters of Alan Watts
$29.95 Add to cartPhilosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915-1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings an… [more below]
- Author: Watts, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1608686086
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of History
$14.99 Add to cartHegel’s Philosophy of History stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker’s efforts to capture the multidimensional character of reality within a broad theoretical framework.Heg… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0879756314
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner’s introduction to the philosopher’s life… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #34
- Author: Tanner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854143
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
$30.00 Read more“An absorbing and humane account . . . Mr. Herman is at pains to remind us that the Viking world was never just a stage for mayhem. It was, he says, ‘about daring to reach for more than the universe h
- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1328595900
- Language: English
