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Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
DescriptionIn his introduction to this new translation by Russell Cost, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's topic as a response together to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries. This new edition consists of notes on the principal events in ...
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The Problems of Philosophy
DescriptionBertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the much important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we approach the 125th anniversary of the Nobel laureate's birth, his works continue to spark debate, resounding together with unmatched timeliness and power.

The Problems of Philosophy, one of the much popular ...

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Categories History & Surveys   Metaphysics   Logic   General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   Logic & Language   Modern   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Thus Spake Zarathustra
DescriptionNietzsche was one of the much revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Like so Spoke Zarathustra" remains his much famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to inform the world this God is dead and this the Superman, the human embodiment of ...
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Common Sense
DescriptionBesides the Declaration of Independence, Common Sense is perhaps the much important document of the American Revolutionary period. Paine's essay offers the ideologial and practical basis for America's seperation from Excellent Britain.
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Walking
DescriptionNowadays nearly all man's innovations, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, just deform the landscape, and do it extra and extra tame and cheap. A people who would initiate by burning the fences and let the forest stand!
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why
DescriptionThe author delves into the technology, psychology, and art of wilderness survival. His analysis is riveting, his conclusions startling.

Afterwards her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking throughout the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, together with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult ...

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
DescriptionThis New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR’s Weekend Edition. ...
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Pragmatism
DescriptionBuy of this book consists of free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read extra than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition together with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III SOME METAPHYSICAL PROBLEMS PRAGMATICALLY CONSIDERED ' I Am now to do the pragmatic method extra familiar by giving you some-illusirati0ns of its ...
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Flatland (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
Description     Flatland, like our own world, is on the verge of the millenium. On the last day of the year 1999, a Square—hitherto undistinguished from the other forms of his two-dimensional world—receives the Gospel of Three Dimensions, revealed to this world's flat inhabitants only one time each a thousand years. Transformed by a truth he is unable to ...
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The Meditations
DescriptionIt was during his campaigns against the barbarians this the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, wrote his famous "Meditations". They record the passing thoughts, the maxims and the musings on life and death of a sensitive and humble intellect which had been trained in this stoic philosophy which contributed so much to Christianity. In this translation from ...
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