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Paperback. This highly original work introduces the ideas and arguments of the ancient Chinese philosophies of Confucianism and Daoism to some of the most intractable social issues of modern American life, including abortion, gay marriage, and assisted suicide. Series: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118656419
ISBN
9781118656419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.35

Paperback. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical society of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession and observance or ritual in life. And his ideas are still close to those of ours today. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129657
ISBN
9780231129657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.36

Paperback. This authoritative and accessible introduction to the fundamental concerns for justice common to societies around the globe brings together foundational and contemporary concepts, exploring and explaining the major issues from sovereignty and severe poverty to environmental justice and human rights. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781405184427
ISBN
9781405184427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.43

Paperback. The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings. This anthology presents a selection of the moral thought of this man. Editor(s): Jacobi, Jolande. Translator(s): Guterman, Norbert. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 368 pages, 148 woodcuts. BIC Classification: HPCB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018768
ISBN
9780691018768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPD; HRG; HRLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Self Realization Fellowship
Edition
First Edition first Printing
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780876120330
ISBN
9780876120330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.55

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560721086
ISBN
9781560721086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.30
€ 99.74

Paperback. Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of a normala society. It is at once the cause and the explanation of misfortune, of the wretchedness of human existence, and of our own individual wrongdoing. Editor(s): Parkin, Robert. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631154327
ISBN
9780631154327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99

Paperback. BIC Classification: 2AHA; HPCA. Dimension: 144 x 209 x 3. Weight in Grams: 62.
Publisher
Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929524214
ISBN
9780929524214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, and imperialism - the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. This title argues that obsessive guilt has obscured important realities. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 213 x 10. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691154305
ISBN
9780691154305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.63

Hardback. Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It is wise to have money, says Pascal Bruckner, and wise to think and talk about it critically. One of the world's great essayists guides us through the commentary that money has generated since ancient times, as he builds an unfashionable defense of the worldly wisdom of the bourgeoisie. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674972278
ISBN
9780674972278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Hardback. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment - the right to pursue happiness - become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we become unhappy about not being happy - and what might we do to escape this predicament? This book considers these questions. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143736
ISBN
9780691143736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Hardback. The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought. The author argues that the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules - without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements. Translator(s): Randall, Steven. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149141
ISBN
9780691149141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.01

Paperback.

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. Wehave to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Westernworld. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745669779
ISBN
9780745669779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.20

Translator(s): Pasnau, Robert. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872206144
ISBN
9780872206144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.67

Paperback. Presents a treatment of the problem of recognition and a sequence of virtuoso studies. This book develops an alternative account of the nature and sources of identity-based injustice in which the pursuit of recognition is part of the problem rather than the solution. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113821
ISBN
9780691113821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.32

Paperback. A study of the Presocratics and Sophists. It offers a selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates. Editor(s): Curd, Patricia. Translator(s): McKirahan, Richard D. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Second Edition,2
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603843058
ISBN
9781603843058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.13

Paperback. Explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. This book provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415964722
ISBN
9780415964722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.88

Hardcover. The years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. In this title, the author argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed soon after the war and then forgotten. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 colour plates, 99 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACXD; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 288 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226471389
ISBN
9780226471389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 50.79

Paperback. Editor(s): Maccormack, Patricia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
n
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472534446
ISBN
9781472534446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.90

Paperback. Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi's contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of doing philosophy. Editor(s): Allo, Patrick. Series: Metaphilosophy. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444338676
ISBN
9781444338676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.42

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