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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
$30.00 Add to cartIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin’s fam
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527172
- Language: English
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The Discourses
$14.00 Add to cart“It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community”
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol? Machiavelli- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0140444289
- Language: English
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Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life
$22.99 Add to cartAn exploration of everything Kant’s philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest potential to being affably drunk at dinner parties.
Imm- Series: Guides to the Good Life
- Author: Stohr, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197537812
- Language: English
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Men Among the Ruins: Postwar Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist
$24.95 Add to cartJulius Evola’s masterful overview of the political and social manifestations of our time, the “age of decline” known to the Hindus as the Kali Yuga.
– Reveals the occult war that underlies the crises- Author: Evola, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0892819057
- Language: English
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The Essential Marcus Aurelius
$15.00 Add to cartThis inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius,… [more below]
- Series: Tarcher Cornerstone Editions
- Author: Needleman, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 10 2008
- ISBN10: 1585426172
- Language: English
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La Llamada del Coraje / Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
$21.95 Read moreLA LLAMADA DEL CORAJE NOS LLEGA A CADA UNO DE NOSOTROS UNA VEZ EN LA VIDA. SI NO RESPONDES T?, QUI?N LO HAR?? SI NO ES AHORA, CU?NDO?
Nada es posible sin la virtud del coraje. Desde los antiguos es- Series: Las Cuatro Virtudes Estoicas
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6073815263
- Language: Spanish
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The Republic: The Influential Classic
$15.00 Add to cartThe newest deluxe edition in the bestselling Capstone Classics Series
This ancient classic has had a make-over. In recent years these Capstone Classic deluxe editions have caught the book buying publi
- Series: Capstone Classics #16
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0857083139
- Language: English
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Words I Wish I Wrote
$18.99 Add to cartIn Words I Wish I Wrote, Robert Fulghum reveals the works of writers who have inspired him. During the past four decades he’s reviewed and revised the basic principles of his philosophy many times, s… [more below]
- Author: Fulghum, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060932228
- Language: English
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Five Moral Pieces
$12.95 Add to cartEmbracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever … [more below]
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0156013258
- Language: English
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The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
$15.00 Add to cart“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”
Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stre- Series: Year of Quotes
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022662496X
- Language: English
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
$4.99 Add to cartSoon after meeting near the famed city of love, Paris, Heloiseand Abelard fall into a deep and passionate love. Abelard is a well-known man and famous teacher; his students are considered to be luck
- Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
- Author: Abelard, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 151326768X
- Language: English
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On Solitude
$14.00 Add to cartFor the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin’s celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history’s most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and el… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0141399252
- Language: English
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The Essays: A Selection
$18.00 Add to cartA survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne’s most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an in… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 03 1994
- ISBN10: 0140446028
- Language: English
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The Stoic Mindset: Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism
$22.00 Read moreA ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert.
For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the prin- Author: Tuitert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250325277
- Language: English
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Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World
$26.95 Add to cartThe author combines advanced science and math with Eastern mysticism, symbols, art and Western spiritual traditions to create one of the most unique and interesting books one is likely to encounter. O… [more below]
- Author: Ouspensky, P. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: January 22 2004
- ISBN10: 1585092444
- Language: English
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How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic
$16.95 Add to cartAn energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Repub- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212368
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$14.00 Add to cartTimaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story descri… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0140455043
- Language: English
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On Living and Dying Well
$18.00 Add to cartPhilosophical writings on “the good life” by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican valu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455566
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
$22.00 Add to cartOne of a major new Classics series – books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.
Lucretius’ poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396903
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
$27.95 Add to cartThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewe
- Series: Princeton Classics #3
- Author: Kaufmann, Walter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160260
- Language: English
