History & Schools of Thought

Offers A Wider Perspective On Darwin's Scientific Theory Of Natural Selection, Explaining How It Extends Beyond Biology, Analyzing Current Controversies Ove...

"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," write...

The eleventh edition of this renowned, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. The text covers...

Reeves (philosophy, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) wrote and presented these dialogues as part of a humanities course at Reed College in Portland, Oreg...

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Step...

Here We Can Find Out About Irony And The Meaning Of Life, The Politics Of The Nuclear Family, Marxism In Springfield, The Elusiveness Of Happiness, Popular ...

About the AuthorRichard Carson lives near Dallas with his wife, Leti, and their son, Jonah. He writes out of his thirteen years as a psychotherapist and as ...

Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many other books, is known fo...

'john Searle Has A Distinctive Intellectual Style. It Combines Razor-sharp Analysis With A Swaggering Chip-on-the-shoulder Impudence That Many Of His Oppone...

When Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published in 1974, it caused a literary sensation. An entire generation was prof...

Second Treatise of GovernmentCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Political ScienceHistory & Theory

Tells how to analyze a situation, plan actions, obtain an advantage, make use of information, and gain a favorable positionCategories: Engineering & Tra...

“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe.”—The Atlantic The hu...

First Philosophy brings together fifty-four classic and contemporary readings on seven central philosophical topics. Mindful of the intrinsic difficulty of...

If you think that you have to retreat to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In this second edition of Living...

Cultivating Stillness -- 1. Wu-chi -- 2. Wang-chi -- 3. T'ai-chi -- 4. The Three Realms Of Existence -- 5. The Mind (heart) Of Tao -- 6. The Human Mind (hea...

A Collection Of Essays Explores Philosophical Aspects Of The Beatles' Music, Lyrics, And Political Acitivities. Topics Addressed Include: Skepticism And Epi...

Introduction -- Technology -- Problems And Technologies -- Technology As Phenomenon -- Futures. Don Ihde. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [143]-149)...

World-renowned Jesus scholar Marcus J. Borg shows how we can live passionately as Christians in today's world by practicing the vital elements of Christian...

Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on th...

Isaiah Berlin Was One Of The Leading Thinkers Of Our Time And One Of Its Finest Writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind Brings Together His Most Celebrated Wri...

epictetus Was Born Into Slavery About 55 Ce In The Eastern Outreaches Of The Roman Empire. Once Freed, He Established An Influential School Of Stoic Philo...

Bertrand Russell ranks as one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Philosophy History & Schools of T...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this hi...

To The Complete Novice Learning About Philosophy Can Be Daunting. The Philosophy Book Changes All That. With The Use Of Powerful And Easy To Follow Images, ...

In This Short Book, Acclaimed Writer And Philosopher Roger Scruton Presents An Original And Radical Defense Of Human Uniqueness. Confronting The Views Of Ev...

This Eloquent, Impassioned Manifesto Is Possibly The Most Important Message The Dalai Lama Can Give Us About The Future Of Our World. It's His Rallying Cry,...

hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this b...

Bring the wisdom of ancient Yoga philosophy into your life in a fresh, accessible, and relevant way.In its highest form, yoga is a practice for your body a...

The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict...

Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy contains Wilfrid Sellars' essays on Plato, Aristotle and Leibniz.Categories: Politics & Social Science...

Elsewhere 1 we were concerned with fundamental aspects of the question how man can comprehend his fellow-men. We analyzed man's subjective experiences of th...

Light On LifeCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Philosophy History & Schools of Thought EasternIndian

in This Book, The Author Is Attempting To Make Sense, As A Philosopher, Of The Ideas Of Rationality Put Forward By Economists, Sociologists, And Political T...

Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ulti...

John Macmurray's aims were radical, ambitious and challenging to reexamine the western philosophical tradition and call into question both its origins and i...

Descartes's Meditations On First Philosophy, The Fundamental And Originating Work Of The Modern Era In Western Philosophy, Is Presented Here In Donald Cress...

In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of ...

Self-help, With A Twist The Secret To Everything Has Been Known To Mystics And Scholars For Centuries And Millennia, And, Today, Is Increasingly Being Confi...

This guide brings Chinese astrology back to its ancient roots, providing all the information you need for understanding one of the world's oldest systems o...

Michel Foucault's 'the History Of Sexuality' Pioneered Queer Theory. In It He Builds An Argument Grounded In A Historical Analysis Of The Word Sexuality Aga...

An Anthology Of Writings Of The Modern Period. It Provides The Key Works Of Seven Major Philosophers, Along With A Selection Of Associated Texts By Other Le...

First Published In 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia Is One Of The Most Important Works Of European Humanism. Through The Voice Of The Mysterious Traveler Ra...

An introduction to the unparalleled achievements of ancient China and the inventions, discoveries, and scientific advances that helped inspire the European ...

thomas Williams Revision Of Arthur Hyman And James J. Walsh S Classic Compendium Of Writings In The Christian, Islamic, And Jewish Medieval Philosophical T...

Isaiah Berlin ; Edited By Henry Hardy. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceLette...

A Compelling Case for Intelligent Design Based on Revolutionary Discoveries in Science In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer has written the first com...

Critically analyzes and revitalizes agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution. Today, most historians, philosophers, political theorists, and scholars ...