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How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy–a moving classic about facing life’s worst events with courage and hope
What do you do when yo- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 069125916X
- Language: English
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The Nietzsche Reader
$21.50 Add to cartThe Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche’s writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche’s life and importance, and in… [more below]
- Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers
- Author: Ansell-Pearson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0631226540
- Language: English
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Why Plato Matters Now
$22.00 Add to cartProfessor Angie Hobbs proves in this persuasive and intelligent book that Plato is more relevant than ever.
Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work has inspired and informed countless thi- Series: Interfaces
- Author: Hobbs, Angie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1399403370
- Language: English
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On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981
$34.95 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars on painting
From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental Un
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918405
- Language: English
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The Unity of Philosophical Experience
$21.95 Add to cartThe best summary of this book is in the authors words from the foreword: “It is the proper aim and scope of the present book to show that the history of philosophy makes philosophical sense, and to de… [more below]
- Author: Gilson, Etienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: August 26 1999
- ISBN10: 089870748X
- Language: English
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The Information Bomb
$19.95 Add to cart“Civilization or the militarization of science?”
With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Virilio, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1844670597
- Language: English
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How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort
$17.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration
The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as n- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691249121
- Language: English
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Kant: A Revolution in Thinking
$29.95 Add to cartA foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.
Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His- Author: Willaschek, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674296109
- Language: English
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How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving in
$17.95 Add to cartLively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation
How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Prudentius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691220344
- Language: English
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EL ENCHIRIDION – ?De la lecci?n a la acci?n!
$14.99 Add to cartEsta edici?n totalmente adaptada y reescrita de “El Enchiridion” ofrece una actualizaci?n completa para satisfacer las necesidades de los lectores contempor?neos. Las caracter?sticas clave de esta edi… [more below]
- Author: Nusselt, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 6500765028
- Language: Spanish
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Greek Philosophers
$16.99 Add to cartW.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy–from Thales to Aristotle–which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Cla
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Guthrie, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0061310085
- Language: English
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The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities
$21.99 Add to cartThe Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations
- Author: Yaqob, Zara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 3112214110
- Language: English
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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.
$29.00 Add to cartIn this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.
Of all the stoic virtues – courage, discipline, ju- Series: The Stoic Virtues
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593191730
- Language: English
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Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Lao-Tzu, Nagarjuna
$15.99 Add to cartTaken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.
- Series: Harvest Book, Hb 288
- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 23 1974
- ISBN10: 0156075008
- Language: English
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On Duties
$12.99 Add to cartON DUTIES deserves more attention than it gets, and it rewards the attention it receives, because it deals with the question of the well-lived life in a clear, thoughtful, accessible, and compelling m
- Series: Roman Road Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1944482113
- Language: English
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The Symposium
$24.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037536
- Language: English
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Daodejing
$15.99 Add to cartGrounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent expli
- Author: Laozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1324097280
- Language: English
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The Portable Plato
$26.00 Add to cartWriting in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagi… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150404
- Language: English
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Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times
$28.00 Add to cartA renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time
The Buddha’s revolutionary teachings transformed Asi- Author: Batchelor, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275498
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
$19.00 Add to cartIn the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753346
- Language: English
