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The Way of Korean Zen
Sunim, KusanShambhala 2009The power and simplicity of the Korean Zen tradition shine in this collection of teachings by a renowned modern master, translated by Martine Batchelor. Kusan Sunim provides a weal...
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Brothers : A Novel
Hua, YuKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rab...
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Beauty’s Appeal
Tymieniecka, Anna-teresaSpringer 2008 1. painosTable of contents 1. Eros/Kalon/Agathos Lawrence Kimmel 2. The Beautiful RecollectedGabriel Hindin 3. Art After Beauty John Baldacchino 4. The Semantics of BeautyPiero Trupia 5. Th...
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A Comprehensible Universe
Coyne, George V.; Heller, MichaelSpringer 2008 1. painosTable of contents I. The Drama of Rationality 1. Discovery that the World is Rational 2. Should the Astronomer Look into the Sky? 3. Seven Fighters against Thebes 4. How to Count t...
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Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political
Newman, SaulTaylor & Francis Group 2005 1. painosThis book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on problems and issues central to politics today. Drawing on the theoretical conc...
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Ancient Ethics
Suave Meyer, SusanTaylor & Francis Group 2008 1. painosThis is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek ethics. It covers the ethical theories and positions of all the major...
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Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism: Criminal justice, politics and the public sphere
Nethercott, FrancesTaylor & Francis Group 2007 1. painosFollowing the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the...
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The Untethered Soul : The Journey Beyond Yourself
Singer, Michael A.New Harbinger Publications 2007#1 New York Times bestseller What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenit...
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Rawls
Freeman, SamuelTaylor & Francis Group 2007 1. painosIn this superb introduction, Samuel Freeman introduces and assesses the main topics of Rawls' philosophy. Starting with a brief biography and charting the influences on Rawls' earl...
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God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything
Hitchens, ChristopherHachette Audio 2007 UnabridgedWhether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its p...
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Coffee at Luke's : An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest
Crusie, Jennifer; Wilson, LeahBenBella Books 2007In the fall of 2000, Gilmore Girls premiered on the WB and viewers were introduced to the quirky world of Stars Hollow and the Gilmores who had made it their home, mother-daughter...
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Aristotle
Shields, ChristopherTaylor & Francis Group 2007 1. painosIn this excellent introduction, Christopher Shields introduces and assesses the whole of Aristotle’s philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of...
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On Translation
Tuominen, KariTaylor & Francis Group 2006 1. painosPaul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this short and accessible book, he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is t...
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Objectivism : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Peikoff, LeonardBlackstone Publishing 2007 UnabridgedThis brilliantly conceived and well-organized book is based on a lecture course given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff in 1976, prepared with the help of Ayn Rand and entitled "The Philosop...
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Derrida on Deconstruction
Stocker, BarryTaylor & Francis Group 2006 1. painosJacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. This is a much-needed introduction for philosophy or humanities students unde...
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Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl, Viktor E.Beacon Press 2006Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 19...
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Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Chinese Philosophy
Sartwell, Prof. CrispinBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006China's two greatest philosophers, Confucius and Lao Tzu, were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is governed. The central concepts of Confucianism a...
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Simone de Beauvoir
McWhorter, Prof. LadelleBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006Simone de Beauvoir stands as a towering figure in the twentieth century's flowering of thought among women. There are probably more women philosophers alive today than in all of p...
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The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and virulent nihilism
Land, NickTaylor & Francis Group 2005 1. painosAn important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for...
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Plato : Greece (ca. 430-350 B.C.)
Lang, Prof. BerelBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2006Plato was the first great philosopher of the West to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. A student of Socrates, Plato preserved the teachings of hi...