History & Surveys
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Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
$30.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller!
A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a “stellar work” by Publishers Weekly From the be- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 052554187X
- Language: English
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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
$17.00 Add to cartWhy we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality–from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century.
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … [more below]- Series: History of Sexuality
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724699
- Language: English
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History – Abridged Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald甁 (d
- Series: Princeton Classics #13
- Author: Khaldûn, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0691166285
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling
$17.00 Add to cartThe infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus
Writing under the pseudonym of “Johannes- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eremita, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140444491
- Language: English
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Critique of Pure Reason
$22.00 Add to cartThe masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy
A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140447474
- Language: English
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How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
$18.95 Add to cartTimeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome’s greatest orator
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we’re trying to win a trivial- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691164339
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Filosof?a (the Philosophy Book)
$27.99 Add to cartGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Con un lenguaje claro, El libro de la filosof?a ofrece concisas explicaciones que desbrozan la jerga acad?mica, esquemas que hacen sencillas las teor?as m?s comp- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 16, 2016
- ISBN10: 1465460152
- Language: Spanish
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Fragments
$16.00 Add to cartFragments of wisdom from the ancient world
In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein–Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything bec- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Heraclitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 28, 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437654
- Language: English
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The Complete Essays
$28.00 Add to cartMichel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1344
- Publish Date: September 07 1993
- ISBN10: 0140446044
- Language: English
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Democracy: A Life
$23.99 Add to cartAncient Greece first coined the concept of “democracy”, yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. … [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190866276
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$15.00 Read moreThe international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich’s sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
“All stories begin with ‘Once upon a time.’ And that’s just what this story is all about: wha- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 030014332X
- Language: English
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
$19.00 Add to cartA brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752552
- Language: English
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume I
$15.99 Add to cartA part of Jaspers’s planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Are
- Series: Socrates, Buddha, Confucius & Jesus #1
- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 03, 2012
- ISBN10: 0156835800
- Language: English
