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Allen & Unwin, 2011. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes and index. xvii, 381 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Clive Hamilton argues that the paradox of modern consumer life is that we are deprived of our inner freedom by the very pursuit of our own desires.

University of California Press, 2010. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with beige cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6 x 1 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [3], notes, references and an index. 262 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Scholars have long recognized the relevance to Christianity of the many stories surrounding the life of Alexander the Great, who claimed to be the son of Zeus. But until now, no comprehensive effort has been made to connect the mythic life and career of Alexander to the stories about Jesus and to the earliest theology of the nascent Christian churches. Ory Amitay delves into a wide range of primary texts in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew to trace Alexander as a mythological figure, from his relationship to his ancestor and rival, Herakles, to the idea of his divinity as the son of a god. In compelling detail, Amitay illuminates both Alexander's links to Herakles and to… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Like new/Very good. Like new hardcover black cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very good dust jacket with minor scuffing. 8vo. ( 5.7 x 1 x 8.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes list of abbreviations, bibliography and an index. 456 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. It has often been asserted that Greek civilization underwent a transition from myth to reason. But what does such an assertion mean? And how much truth is there in it? Were the Greeks special in having evolved 'our' sort of reason, or is that a mirage? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Ancient Greek myth, religion, philosophy, and history reconsider these fundamental issues. Among the problems they explore are; intersections involving myth/philosophy, the history of the Mythos/Logos opposition; myth and reason in practice; logic(s) of myth; intersections involving myth/philosophy, myth/history, myth ethnography, and… Leer más

Watkins Publishing, 2016. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2016 Watkins Publishing recent printing softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. We all want to be happy but what is happiness? Haim Shapira navigates the terrain of happiness, exploring and contemplating an eclectic range of theories and insights into the conflicts we face on our journey to creating our own happiness. What is your happiest moment? How can you know it? Do we waste time or does time waste us? Are questions about meaning truly meaningful? What's really important? Drawing on literary and philosophical sources ranging from Alice in Wonderland and The Little Prince to Leo Tolstoy, King Solomon and Friedrich Nietzsche, Haim Shapira invites us to challenge our perspectives on happiness and provides us with alternative ways to appreciate what is important. As Haim concludes it is in the spaces… Leer más

University of California Press, 1993. First. Hardcover. New/New. ***Signed by Author*** New 1st edition hardcover with cloth to boards and copper lettering to spine. New dust jacket. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature on title page. Book is from the personal library of Professor Green. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes list of abbreviations, list of contributors and illustrations, and an index. 293 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously… Leer más

University of California Press, 1986. Second. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. (5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches) Includes a bibliography and index. 274 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The purpose of this book is to trace the main developments in Greek philosophy during the period which runs from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.c. to the end of the Roman Republic (31 B.c.). These three centuries, known to us as the Hellenistic Age, witnessed a vast expansion of Greek civilization eastwards, following Alexander's conquests; and later, Greek civilization penetrated deeply into the western Mediterranean world assisted by the political conquerors of Greece, the Romans. But philosophy throughout this time remained a predominantly Greek activity. The most influential thinkers in the Hellenistic world were Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics. This book gives a concise critical analysis of their ideas and their methods… Leer más

Harvard University Press, 2009. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover with like DJ. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes an appendix, chapter notes, references and an index. 330 pp. From the DJ, "Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as "peer review," highly respected professors pass judgment, usually confidentially, on the work of others. But only those present in the deliberative chambers know exactly what is said. Michèle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants, and interviewed panel members at length. In How Professors Think, she reveals what she discovered about this secretive, powerful, peculiar world. Anthropologists, political scientists, literary scholars, economists, historians, and philosophers don't share the same standards. Economists prefer mathematical models, historians favor different kinds… Leer más

Arc Humanities Press, 2019. Paperback. New. The history of the religious aspect of the Czech Republic. New tightly bound softcover in printed wraps.12mo. Clean text free of marks or underling. 112 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Hussite movement was a historical watershed, in which popular and scholastic theology combined with a nascent Czech nationalism to produce a full-scale social revolution that presaged the Protestant Reformation and the birth of the modern nation state. The Hussites defeated the forces of the Empire and the Pope, and their king George Pod?brady was the first to advocate a trans-national European state. Jan Hus is remembered as a martyr for church reform, but his colleagues formulated a theology that scholars are now recognizing to have had influence on Luther and the birth of Protestantism. Another Bohemian associated with the movement, Petr Chel?ický, was the first to advocate a radical pacifist Christian anarchism. This survey introduces… Leer más

Peter Lang, 2016. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Tight binding and free of marks or bumps. Bibliography. 152 pp. Publisher's blurb, "The text is structured in chronological and ideological order and presents nine basic types of the classical perception of the problem of knowledge through an analysis of the atomistic theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle's doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant's theory, phenomenological-existential, pragmatic, and (post) analytical perceptions. The proposed work aspires to be an introduction (not a complete presentation, neither in the number of types, nor in a full interpretation) and a basis for the reader's interpretations which is reflected in the structure of the text.

Open Court, 1999. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography and index. 178 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "Steven Luper analyzes the nature of happiness and compares two strategies of pursuit: the western approach known as 'optimizing', in which we try to bring about the satisfaction of our desires, and the eastern method known as 'adapting', in which we transform our desires so that nothing can hurt us. 'Luper's clearly written, yet heartfelt, book will serve to widen the narrow horizons of contemporary moral debate, and not just within academia'. -- David E. Cooper University of Durham.

Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2017 Princeton University Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse and one-time fiancée, from the author of the definitive biography of the philosopher Kierkegaard's Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the literary inspiration and one-time fiancée of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, is a moving portrait of a long romantic fever that had momentous literary consequences. Drawing on more than one hundred previously unknown letters by Regine that acclaimed Kierkegaard biographer Joakim Garff discovered by chance, the book tells the story of Kierkegaard and Regine's mysterious relationship more fully and vividly than ever before, shedding new light on her influence on his life and writings. Like Dante's Beatrice,… Leer más

Duquesne University Press, 2013. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2013 Duquesne University Press softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. While influential works have been devoted to comparative studies of various Asian philosophies and continental philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida, this collection is the first to fully treat the increased interest in intercultural and interdisciplinary studies related to the work of Emmanuel Levinas in such a context. Levinas and Asian Thought seeks to discover common ground between Levinas's ethical project and various religious and philosophical traditions of Asia such as Mahayana Buddhism, Theravadic Buddhism, Vedism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Islam. In these 13 essays, contributors draw on resources as diverse as the self-sacrificial ethic of bushido, Islamic jurisprudence, and contemporary… Leer más

Pitchstone Publishing, 2013. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [3], glossary, and index. 280 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith--and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than 20 years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value… Leer más

Oaks Press, 2021. Revised. Paperback. New. New tightly bound softcover in printed wraps. 8vo.(6 x 0.7 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underling. Cover art by Louis Schecter. Includes b&w photos, bibliography, and an index. 269 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In this revised version of his 2018 book, The Idea of Monotheism, Jack Shechter offers a detailed clarification of the ideational development within each of the tenets that flow from the Oneness of God that is the core of the monotheistic idea as it has evolved over the centuries. The Idea of Monotheism historically traces the concept of God as it emerged in the ongoing life of the people in specific time periods; it reflects the newly perceived perspectives about the deity due to changing times, locales, and climates of opinion. However, so profoundly One is God in Judaism, these transformations had no effect whatever on this eternally uniform substance. Thus, what man did over time was to uncover God's… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (8.6 x 1.2 x 5.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes list of abbreviations, references, general index, and an index of passages cited. 400 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive… Leer más

Hawaii: Smiling Lotus Publications, 2021. Hardcover. New. New oversized case wrapped hardcover. 4to. (8.75 x 1.3 x 11.25 inches) Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Typeset is TeX Gyra Pageela 14pt (large font) Includes illustrations. 408 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Native Knowledge: The Ecological Way of Elemental Harmony is a "Book of Life" for the living. It is a "Book of Death" for the dying. It is a "Book of Union" for uniting the two as the key to vitalizing our direct experience of the Tree of Life itself. William Braham has written a comprehensive manifesto for envisioning the coalescent growth of the seeds and fruits for today's Ancient Now Age. Here, he establishes the structural framework for this current era with firm roots grounded in a primordial origin story of the "Great Perfection of the Wheel of Time." William sees our way through these momentous times in eco-logical terms. We are the creative union of elemental forces evolving… Leer más

Da Capo Press, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. New. General Leslie Groves recollections on The Manhattan Project. New tightly bound softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Photo plates. Contains bibliography and an index. 491 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon.This is his story of the political, logistical, and personal problems of this enormous undertaking which involved… Leer más

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover in like DJ. 8vo. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, bibliography, and index. 270 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today. Drawing on a range of contemporary scholarship on utopianism and a broad premodern archive, Lochrie charts variant utopian strains in medieval literature and philosophy that diverge from More's work… Leer más

Liveright, 2013. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 12mo. (4.9 x 0.8 x 7.6 inches) Includes a timeline. 224 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle. In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle was born in Stagira, Macedon, in 384 BCE. He would go on to join Plato's Academy and eventually become tutor to Alexander the Great. During his lifetime he would see the revival of Athens following its destruction in the Peloponnesian War, before the ultimate extinction of its radical form of democracy after the Macedonian conquest. Aristotle's strongly empirical cast of mind was… Leer más

Graywolf Press, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. New. A mother copes with uncertainty about life for herself and her child but learns we must face our fears. New softcover in printed wraps. Contains author's sources and select notes. 224 pp. Publisher's blurb, "In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, she suggests that we cannot immunize our children, or ourselves, against the world. As she explores the metaphors surrounding immunity, Biss extends her conversations with other mothers to meditations on the myth of Achilles, Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is an inoculation against our fear and a moving account of how we are all interconnected-our bodies and our fates.