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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.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics)
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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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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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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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly together with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system this underlies all mental activity transcends the system this maintains it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal ...
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library)
DescriptionStanding at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed this unique religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, were the backbone of the world's religious life. His discussions of conversion, repentance, ...
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Meditations
DescriptionA series of spiritual exercises filled together with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s insights and advice—on everything from living in the world to coping together with adversity and interacting ...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Classics)
DescriptionWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals - a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his ...
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)
DescriptionOne hundred years afterwards his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the much influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's much important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce ...
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