Millennium Prophecies: Predictions for the Year 2000
Shaftesbury: Element, 1999. Paperback. More
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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 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
The Tao of Pooh
London: Methuen/Magnet Books, 1984. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrations). First Paperback Edition, Fifth Printing. Paperback. The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese--or a venerable philosopher--but is in fact none other that..... 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
Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Emil Antonucci (cover design). Reprint. Trade Paperback. A Galaxy Book. No. GB 7 About the author Charles Norris Cochrane (August 21, 1889 – November 23, 1945) was a Canadian historian and philosopher who taught at the University of Toronto. He is known for..... 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
Existentialism and Modern Literature
New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1972. Marshall Matusow (cover design). Fourth paperbound printing. Paperback. More
Ethics in Action: Workable Guidelines for Private and Public Choices
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. American politicians often claim a moral imperative to ensure quality affordable health care to all Americans, but as Donald Munro points out, leaders rarely outline the content of this moral standard and whether it can be applied to all..... 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
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
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas)
London: Penguin Books, 2020. Paperback. 'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary..... More
Justice and Interpretation
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book, [the author] traces the myriad ways in which interpretive perspectives have come to prominence in modem political philosophy. Focusing on the work of John Rawls, Michael Walzer, Ronald Dworkin, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Jurgen Habermas, Warnke finds an increasing..... More
The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modern Adaptation
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. The contributors to this volume range over 2,000 years of history as they show how Confucian values spread throughout the region in premodern times and how these values were transformed in an age of modernization. The introduction by Gilbert Rozman..... More
The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Rosanna Crocitto (tr.). First Edition. Paperback. In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's The American Scholar, this book explores the identity of the American..... More
