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Paperback. Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". This work concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 4 figures, 6 musical examples. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226401935
- ISBN
- 9780226401935
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.76
€ 33.99
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Paperback. We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty, stimulating look at this most compelling of questions - and proposes his own answer. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199532179
- ISBN
- 9780199532179
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rudolf Steiner Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- English ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855840928
- ISBN
- 9781855840928
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.37
€ 14.99
€ 14.37
Hardcover. National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871401007
- ISBN
- 9780871401007
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.14
€ 25.99
€ 24.14
Paperback. Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPX; PDA; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631491146
- ISBN
- 9781631491146
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.99
€ 15.99
€ 14.99
paperback. Voices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful--they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270002
- ISBN
- 9780823270002
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.40
€ 29.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. Voices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful--they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269990
- ISBN
- 9780823269990
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€ 91.38
€ 91.38
Paperback. * * Explores the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on "reductionism", the theory that the nature of complex things can always be explained by simpler or more fundamental things. * Written by leading philosophers in the field. Editor(s): Schouten, Maurice; Looren de Jong, Huib. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444350869
- ISBN
- 9781444350869
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Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
The Matter of the Mind. Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscien...
. Ed(S): Schouten, Maurice; Looren de Jong, H...
* Explores the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on "reductionism", the theory that the nature of complex things can always be explained by simpler or more fundamental things. * Written by leading philosophers in the field. Editor(s): Schouten, Maurice; Looren de Jong, Huib. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405144438
- ISBN
- 9781405144438
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Condition: New
€ 122.20
€ 122.20
hardcover. Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HPCD1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643482
- ISBN
- 9781442643482
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Condition: New
€ 86.97
€ 86.97
Paperback. This volume traces the odyssey of truth "aletheia", from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. The book begins with an examination of how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. Num Pages: 232 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299861
- ISBN
- 9780942299861
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.53
€ 26.99
€ 20.53
Hardback. What does it mean to be "social"? Is there any intrinsic "mark" of the social shared by behaviour, language, development, identity and science? This book sheds light on these questions and contains the thoughts of 12 philosophers and social scientists from a variety of disciplines. Editor(s): Greenwood, John D. Num Pages: 248 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPC; JHBA; JMA; JMH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847683079
- ISBN
- 9780847683079
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Condition: New
€ 151.97
€ 151.97
Paperback. "Originally published in French under the title La marque du sacre." Translator(s): DeBevoise, M. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPD; HPQ; HRAM2; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776905
- ISBN
- 9780804776905
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.28
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€ 25.28
Paperback. Editor(s): Hosle, Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters Vittorio (University of Notre Dame, USA). Num Pages: 507 pages, Illustrations (some color). BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268011192
- ISBN
- 9780268011192
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Condition: New
€ 63.66€ 62.48
€ 63.66
€ 62.48
Paperback. The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington were presumably justified as ethically good acts against American evil. This book provides a resource for thinking clearly about the diverse ways in which humans see good and evil. Editor(s): Madsen, Richard; Strong, Tracy B. Series: Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliography , index. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691099934
- ISBN
- 9780691099934
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Condition: New
€ 53.05€ 42.00
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Paperback. This work considers the status of art in the modern era. It takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. Translator(s): Albert, Georgia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735544
- ISBN
- 9780804735544
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.26
€ 25.99
€ 24.26
Paperback. Translator(s): Burk, Drew S. Series: Univocal. Num Pages: 80 pages, 18. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 203 x 51. .
- Publisher
- Univocal Publishing LLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781945414015
- ISBN
- 9781945414015
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.14
€ 24.99
€ 23.14
Paperback. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This book explores the phenomenon and its causes and offers a fresh interpretation of this turning point in Western history and its consequences. Num Pages: 432 pages, 47 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300121391
- ISBN
- 9780300121391
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.40
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paperback. Surveys main currents in Western thought through eight centuries. Num Pages: 696 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 44. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780231041430
- ISBN
- 9780231041430
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Condition: New
€ 59.99€ 48.65
€ 59.99
€ 48.65
Paperback. Translator(s): Jordan, Joshua David. Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 116 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351153
- ISBN
- 9781584351153
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.92
€ 15.99
€ 13.92
paperback. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Publisher
- Princeton Univers. Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691163680
- ISBN
- 9780691163680
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.93
€ 33.99
€ 24.93
Paperback. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees on one thing: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This book brings together fresh translations of three of Rousseau's works. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226151311
- ISBN
- 9780226151311
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.40
€ 20.99
€ 18.40
Paperback. The story of John Chang, the first man to be documented performing pyrokinesis, telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, and other paranormal abilities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: HPD; JMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892818136
- ISBN
- 9780892818136
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.52
€ 19.99
€ 14.52
Paperback. An early work that lays the foundation for establishing a "polemical" dimension to psychoanalysis. Translator(s): Adkins, Taylor. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350880
- ISBN
- 9781584350880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.30
€ 23.99
€ 16.30