Anchor Books, 2023.
Paperback. From one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world, a profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life."Much has been written on the scientific and technological aspects of climate.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864.
Sixth Edition. Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
Riviere Binding. Full tree calf, gilt dentelles to edges of both sides of boards and gilt to outer edges of boards as well, raised bands, elaborate gilt decoration to bands and spine compartments, marbled endpapers.....
Los Angeles: Pegacycle Lady and The Globe Bookstore, 1975.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #71 of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Composed by the thrice-famous and learned Frier, Roger Bacon (1214-1294), sometimes fellow of Martin College: and afterwards of Brasen-nose College in Oxenforde. With the Smaragdine Table of Hermes, Trismegistus of.....
London: Notting Hill Editions, 2011.
First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Text established and annotated by Nathalie Leger. Translated by Richard Howard. Foreword by Nathalie Leger. Preface by Michael Wood.
The day after his mother's death in 1977, philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards, he.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996 / 1999.
First Editions. Hardcover. The first two volumes of Harvard’s four-volume collection of Walter Benjamin’s selected writings. First Editions, First Printings per Zempel – with date of publication on title page and no identification of later printing on copyright.....
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1974.
Nineth (sic) Printing. Hardcover. Blyth on Zen in this work’s preface: “The reader of this book will be confused by it, but this is the destiny of man, since many are the roads, but all lead to the same conclusion, confusion. If am asked, ‘Are.....
Little Brown and Company, 2021.
Paperback. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe "lively" (The New Yorker), "convincing" (Forbes), and "riveting pick-me-up we all need right now" (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success.....
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1952.
First Revised Edition. Hardcover. In an effort to understand common elements of the historical phenomenon of revolution, the author reviews historical facts behind the four great revolutions of the western world - the English Revolution, the American Revolution, the first French Revolution, and the Russian.....
Random House, 2023.
Hardcover. A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character and The Second MountainAs David Brooks observes, "There.....
Princeton University Press, 2020.
Paperback. How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divide
On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary.....
London: Folio Society, 2010.
First Thus. Hardcover. First Folio Society Edition. Edited with notes by Conor Cruise O'Brien; Introduced by A. C. Grayling. First published in 1790; published by Pelican Books in 1968, edited by Conor Cruise O'Brien. The text of this edition follows that of the 2004 Penguin Classics.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Carol Stewart.
A look at the interplay between crowds and power in which 1981 Nobel Prize Winner Elias Canetti investigates how a person hitherto unknown may be thrown up by a crowd and become.....
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013.
First Edition. Paperback. First Printing.
Publisher's description:
Whether for companionship, religious congress, protest, seating, or comfort, sitting communally remains one of the most powerful and prevalent of human social activities. This simple act held special significance in numerous utopian communities that emerged in 19th-century.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Hardcover. A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage.
In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel.....
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1954.
Fourth Impression. Hardcover. From the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. Translated by Amethe Smeaton (Countess von Zeppelin). With a Preface to the English Edition and a Foreword by the author.
Publisher’s description: Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) here explores his "principle of.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022.
Hardcover. When The Stone Reader--a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy column--first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact rhetoric.....
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1931.
First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper on 12 Nov, '39.
The author seeks to offer a path to a religion of ethical fellowship for those for whom orthodox religion is too restrictive. The destination is a "new simplified.....
London: The Folio Society, 2008.
First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Folio Society Edition. Translated with an introduction by D. C. Lau; Preface by A. C. Grayling.
D. C. Lau’s translation of the Analects was first published by Penguin Books in 1979.
Set in Centaur at The Folio Society. Printed on.....
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968.
First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation inscription signed by the author on first free endpaper - "For Stanley, my very dear Friend, whose ideas are close to mine, & mine to Stanley's, with love & friendship" - Edward, May 23, '68, N.Y.C.
A continuation of ruminations.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
Hardcover. Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of.....
Back Bay Books, 2020.
Paperback. From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life.When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like.....
Penguin Group, 2021.
Hardcover. A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist - A Penguin Classic When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in.....
Pantheon Books, 2023.
Hardcover. A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe--the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind--and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the worldArgentine poet.....
Penguin Press, 2023.
Hardcover. A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram EilenbergerThe period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic.....
Boston & London: Shambhala, 1996.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.
This second volume of An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism focuses on the human body as a carrier of deep psychological insights and sacred meanings. Contemporary western culture lacks an appreciation of the body's organs as symbols of the.....
