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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.20
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Albert Camus
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 844.914
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Publication Date: 1991-05-07
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Reading Level: 224
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.34
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Seife
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 809
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The seemingly impossible Zen task--writing a book about nothing--has a loophole: people have been chatting, learning, and even fighting about nothing for millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by noted science writer Charles Seife, starts with the story of a modern battleship stopped dead in the water by a loose zero, then rewinds back to several hundred years BCE. Some empty-headed genius improved the traditional Eastern counting methods immeasurably by adding zero as a placeholder, which allowed the genesis of our still-used decimal system. It's all been uphill from there, but Seife is enthusiastic about his subject; his synthesis of math, history, and anthropology seduces the reader into a new fascination with the most troubling number. Why did the Church reject the use of zero? How did mystics of all stripes get bent out of shape over it? Is it true that science as we know it depends on this mysterious round digit? Zero opens up these questions and lets us explore the answers and their ramifications for our oh-so-modern lives. Seife has fun with his format, too, starting with chapter 0 and finishing with an appendix titled "Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine." (Warning: don't get your hopes up too much.) There are enough graphs and equations to scare off serious numerophobes, but the real story is in the interactions between artists, scientists, mathematicians, religious and political leaders, and the rest of us--it seems we really do have nothing in common. --Rob Lightner
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.35
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Abram
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Publisher: Vintage
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Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 128
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Publication Date: 1997-02-25
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: David Abram's writing casts a spell of its own as he weaves the reader through a meticulously researched work that gently addresses such seemingly daunting topics as where the past and future exist, the relationship between space and time, and how the written word serves to sever humans from their primordial source of sustenance: the earth. "Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient associations with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air," writes Abram of the separation caused by the proliferation of the written word. In writing The Spell of the Sensuous, Abram consulted an engaging collection of peoples and works. He uses aboriginal song lines, stories from the Koyukon people of northwestern Alaska, the philosophy of phenomenology, and the speeches of Socrates to paint a poetic landscape that explains how we became separated from the earth in the first place. With minimal environmental doomsaying, Abram discusses how we can begin to recover a sustainable relationship with the earth and the nonhuman beings who live among us--in the more-than-human world. --Kathryn True
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $15.38
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Merleau-Ponty
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 142
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Publication Date: 2002-05-03
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Reading Level: 672
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Description: Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.27
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Tillich
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.6
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Publication Date: 2000-07-11
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Reading Level: 238
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Description: In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Peter J. Gomes that reflects on the impact of this book in the years since it was written.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $10.12
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: G. W. F. Hegel
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 193
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Publication Date: 1979-02-01
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader understand this most difficult and most influential of Hegel's works.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $4.78
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Manufacturer: Citadel
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Publisher: Citadel
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Dewey Decimal Number: 111
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Publication Date: 2000-12-01
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Reading Level: 96
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.62
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Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leonard Koren
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Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 111.850952
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Publication Date: 1994-07-01
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: This extended essay in words and pictures universalizes the Japanese traditional rustic aesthetic of wabi-sabi that was developed over hundreds of years by Zen priests and teamasters. Wabi-sabi functions today as a prototypical "complete" aesthetic, nature-based and "soft" in contrast to the "hard" digital aesthetics of modern computer-age design. As such, it offers designers and other creative people a wealth of insight into materials and process.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $14.50
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Soren Kierkegaard
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 198.9
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Publication Date: 2000-05-30
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: This is the most comprehensive anthology of Søren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career. They reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth. With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and explanatory notes for each selection, this is the essential one-volume guide to a thinker who changed the course of modern intellectual history. The anthology begins with Kierkegaard's early journal entries and traces the development of his work chronologically to the final The Changelessness of God. The book presents generous selections from all of Kierkegaard's landmark works, including Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, and The Sickness unto Death, and draws new attention to a host of such lesser-known writings as Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in his own words, "What it means to exist; . . . what it means to be a human being." Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and show more completely than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the world.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.04
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Soren Kierkegaard
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 198.9
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Publication Date: 1992-12-01
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.
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