Chronological Period/Modern
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Discourse on Method and Related Writings
$12.00 Add to cart“It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well”
Ren? Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140446990
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes–this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at ho
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063142899
- Language: English
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The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition
$17.99 Add to cartThe headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world’s fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the ear
- Author: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 006162599X
- Language: English
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Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
$26.99 Add to cart“This is the history of the war in Vietnam we have been waiting for. This is a marvelous achievement–meticulously documented, excitingly narrated, written with grace, wit, and passion.”- Howard Zinn
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- Author: Young, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 25 1991
- ISBN10: 0060921072
- Language: English
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
$38.25 Read moreFrom the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James
In 1895, William James, the fathe- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0691192162
- Language: English
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Kant: Critique of Practical Reason
$30.00 Add to cartThe Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant’s three Critiques, one of his three major treatises on moral theory, and a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy. Originally published … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Author: Reath, Andrews
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1107467055
- Language: English
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
$25.99 Add to cartHistory has tended to measure war’s winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered “decisive.” Marathon, Cannae, Tours… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Cathal J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0190931515
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
$12.95 Add to cart‘It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198835329
- Language: English
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Theodor W. Adorno: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to und- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowie, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0198833865
- Language: English
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Hide and Seek
$38.00 Add to cartAs bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists. However, few people today believe in truth that is not empirically knowable or verifiable, the sort of truth often trafficked th… [more below]
- Series: Veritas #36
- Author: Fraser, Benson P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1532670583
- Language: English
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America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding
$27.95 Read moreThe Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles are responsible for the country’s moral and social d
- Author: Reilly, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1586179489
- Language: English
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Ethics
$29.82 Add to cartEthics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Latin: Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata), usually known as the Ethics, is a philosophical treatise written by Benedict de Spinoza. It was first publishe… [more below]
- Author: de Spinoza, Benedict
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: November 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1731706928
- Language: English
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True Tales of Puget Sound
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the shores of Gig Harbor to the slopes of Mount Rainier, the towns surrounding Puget Sound all have incredible stories to share. How did Old Fort Nisqually, now perched on a lofty bluff above Tac… [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Wilhelm, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139696
- Language: English
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The Will to Power
$12.00 Read moreThroughout his career, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche explored the concept of the will to power, interpreting it variously as a psychological, biological, and metaphysical principle. This posthumously pr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0486831663
- Language: English
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Paradox
$18.95 Add to cartAn introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno’s.
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Cuonzo, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0262525496
- Language: English
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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
$16.99 Add to cartA stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been… [more below]- Author: Gopnik, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541699343
- Language: English
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Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology
$21.95 Add to cartDescribed by Hilary Putnam as “both a fine introduction and a significant contribution” to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as “at once comprehensive … and judicious,” Evidence and Inquiry is un… [more below]
- Author: Haack, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159102689X
- Language: English
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
$20.99 Add to cart“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charle… [more below]
- Author: MacQuarrie, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1439168903
- Language: English
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Courage of Truth
$26.99 Add to cartThe Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered in a series of lectures from 1970 to 1984 at the Coll?e de France.
Here, Foucault continues the theme of the previous year’s- Series: Lectures at the College de France #11
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250009103
- Language: English
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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023 – A New York Times Notable Book
“A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important,- Author: Bakewell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0735223394
- Language: English
