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How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking
$16.95 Add to cartWhat we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times–the ancient Greeks
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are sti- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691213739
- Language: English
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Basic Writings
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century.” — New York Times
The finest single-volume anthology of the great philosopher’s work, with a new introduction by leading Heidegger scholar Taylo
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0061627011
- Language: English
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
$41.58 Add to cartAn original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it–and explains why they have died today
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and ov- Author: Smith-Ruiu, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212325
- Language: English
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How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic
$16.95 Add to cartHow ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment
Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy th- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Empiricus, Sextus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 069120604X
- Language: English
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On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power
$12.99 Add to cart“Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.”–from On Disobedience
One of the great psychological and social philosophers
- Author: Fromm, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0062930834
- Language: English
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Assholes: A Theory
$17.00 Read moreThe perfect graduation gift for every young adult entering the real world.
In the New York Times bestseller Nick Hornby calls “helpful, stimulating, and very timely” (The Believer), philosopher Aaron- Author: James, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0804171351
- Language: English
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How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small
$18.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals–and our vital relationships with them
How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Usher, M. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0691240434
- Language: English
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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
$17.95 Read moreHow inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn’t work for left-handed people, for example, or a t
- Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
- Author: Holmes, Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539489
- Language: English
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The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from the World as Will and Representation and Other Writings
$19.99 Add to cart“We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully.” — Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy
The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061768243
- Language: English
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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
$19.95 Add to cartA compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless.- Series: New Forum Books #70
- Author: Storey, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691220115
- Language: English
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What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology
$19.95 Add to cartThe pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfac
- Author: Butler, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0231208294
- Language: English
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Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
$29.99 Add to cartThis excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from several different Latin American countries and from variou… [more below]
- Author: Gracia, Jorge J. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1573929786
- Language: English
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Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live–how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die–in this “… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1451659113
- Language: English
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The Origin of Others
$22.95 Add to cartAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belo
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures #56
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0674976452
- Language: English
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being
$18.00 Add to cartFrench philosopher Simone Weil’s best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment
A Pengu- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0241467977
- Language: English
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The Division of Labor in Society
$20.99 Add to cartRevised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by lea… [more below]
- Author: Durkheim, Emile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1476749736
- Language: English
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
$14.99 Add to cart“One of the most important writers of the past hundred years.” — The Times (London)
In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to
- Series: Cornelia & Michael Bessie Books
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: October 14 1987
- ISBN10: 0060390778
- Language: English
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The Te of Piglet
$18.00 Add to cartThe Te of Piglet . . . in which a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. A. Milne’s Piglet from the bestselling author of The Tao of Pooh
Piglet? Yes, Piglet.- Author: Hoff, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140230165
- Language: English
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Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self
$16.95 Add to cartWhy you don’t have a self-and why that’s a good thing
In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first mi- Author: Garfield, Jay L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691220573
- Language: English
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The Society of the Spectacle
$26.95 Add to cartFew works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 1995
- ISBN10: 0942299795
- Language: English
