Millennium Prophecies: Predictions for the Year 2000
Shaftesbury: Element, 1999. Paperback. More
Philosophy
The Hindu Tradition: Readings in Oriental Thought
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. del Gaudio & Munson Design Group (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. Vintage Books no. V-702 This book, compiled from basic Hindu writings, is an exploration of the essential meaning of the Hindu tradition, the way of thinking and acting that has dominated..... More
The Architecture of Happiness
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
Essays in Love
London: Picador Classic, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. 'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind..... More
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
London: Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of..... More
The Plague
London: Penguin Books, 2020. David Pearson (cover design). Paperback. Introduction by Tony Judt Translated by Robin Buss 'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a...... More
The Rebel
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Olivier Todd Translated by Anthony Bower A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the..... More
Action, Emotion and Will
Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994. Reprint of the 1963 Edition. Paperback. Action, Emotion and Will was first published in 1963, when it was one of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action. Almost forty years on, Anthony Kenny's account of action and emotion..... More
Augustine Confessions: Books 9-13
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. No. 27 in the Loeb Classical Library series Edited and translated by Carolyn Hammond Augustinus (354–430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become..... More
On The Improvement of the Understanding, The Ethics, Correspondence
New York: Dover Publications, 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Translated from the Latin with an introduction by R.H.M. Elwes. More
The Inward Pilgrimage: Spiritual Classics from Augustine to Bonhoeffer
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, 1976. Paperback. More
Autobiography
London: Routledge, 2000. Paperback. Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and..... More
The Story of Philosophy : From Antiquity to the Present
Bonn: Tandem Verlag GmbH, 2005. Softcover. A volume in the "Compact Knowledge Series," this title provides a well-illustrated survey of philosophy. Beginning in Classical Antiquity (the Greeks and Romans), the survey moves through the Middles Ages (the emergence of Scholasticism), The Renaissance, Rationalism and Empiricism in the Seventeenth Century, The..... More
The Analects (Lun yu)
Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self-knowledge, courage and love of one's fellow man, he argued that the pursuit of..... More
Philosophy's Cool Place
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Ludwig Wittgenstein established a "cool" stance for philosophy, contemplating the world without meddling in it. D. Z. Phillips explores this position, focusing on its implications for philosophical authorship and the philosophical investigation of the nature of reality. Influenced by..... More
Clouds in the West: Lessons from the Martial Arts of Japan
Guilford: The Lyons Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
Pluralism, Justice and Equality
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. The essays in this book by a group of leading political theorists assess and develop the central ideas of Michael Walzer's path-breaking Spheres of Justice. Is social justice a radically plural notion, with its principles determined by the different social goods that..... More
Existentialism and Modern Literature
New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1972. Marshall Matusow (cover design). Fourth paperbound printing. Paperback. More
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
Collier Books, 1967. Softcover. First Collier Books edition 1962, Second Printing 1967; translated by W.R. Boyce Gibson. More
Speaking of Gender
New York: Routledge, 1989. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Library Journal: Feminist criticism began in the 1970s with the analysis of women's writing by women; in recent years, "gender studies" has come to constitute a field in which male and female critics consider the construction, meaning, and transformation..... More
Intergroup Relations Centers
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). More
True Stories and Other Essays
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating..... More
Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science (Anti-Dühring)
New York: International Publishers Co., Inc., 1972. Third Printing of 1939 Ediiton. Paperback. New World Paperbacks book no. NW-21. More
The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings
London: Penguin Books, 2020. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Translated by Anne McLean Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson Edited by Cristobal Pera Collected here for the first time: a selection of the great writer’s journalism, which he considered more important to his legacy than his acclaimed novels. Late in..... More
The Bhagavad Gita
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. “A true translation whose literary qualities make it stand out from the rest.” –Daniel Gold, Cornell University “Here’s a chance to rediscover The Bhagavad Gita in a translation that blends true scholarship with artistry.” –Library Journal The..... More
