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1	Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects more books like this by David Hume, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist David Hume (1711-76) is the grand intellectual figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. Ironically, what is now considered his magnum opus, the ill-received three-volume "A Treatise of Human Nature" (1739-40), was rejected by Hume himself by 1751. Subsequently, when Hume first compiled his "Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects" two years later, ... see all copies from $17.42! new only from $17.42! \| first editions
2	System of Positive Polity more books like this by Thoemmes Press (Manufactured by) add to wishlist Auguste Comte (1798-1857) was convinced that positive knowledge was possible as a result of the advancement of the various sciences, and he sought a complete reorganization of society by means of intellectual reform. The "Systeme de politique positive" (1851-4), of which this is the translation, treats of social statics, that is the conditions of ... see all copies from $32.58! new only from $32.58! \| first editions
3	A Review of Economic Theory more books like this by Thoemmes Press add to wishlist Cannan's "Review contains sixty lectures given to second and third-year students at the London School of Economics up until 1926. In these lectures he examines the history of economic theory and outlines the principles of economics, with important chapters such as 'The Theory of Production' and 'The Influence of Population on Produce'. It was well ... see all copies from $29.77! new only from $30.73! \| first editions
4	Koenigsberger's Life of Hermann Von Helmholtz: Koenigsbergers Leben Des Hermann Von Helmholtz more books like this by Leo Koenigsberger, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-94) had a huge influence on German science during the mid-19th century, bringing it to the forefront of world attention. He was a physicist and psychologist who made seminal contributions in both fields. His "Treatise on Physiological Optics" transformed the study of vision by integrating its physical ... see all copies from $48.30! new only from $199.11!
5	George Grote: Life and Miscellaneous Works by George Grote, Harriet Grote, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist George Grote (1794-1871) was the leading classical historian of the 19th century. But he was not only a classicits; he had other interests. This is a three-volume set of scarce material by and about Grote which throws light on his public and private life and makes available his lesser-known works. see all copies from $56.00! new only from $375.43! \| first editions
6	The St. Louis Hegelians more books like this by James A Good (Editor), Michael Dearmey (Editor), Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist These three volumes make available rare primary source material that should greatly facilitate research on the St Louis Hegelians. The thought and activities of this loosely organized group of philosophers was instrumental in the crucial shift from 19th-century laissez-faire individualism to the institutional liberalism of the Progressive Era, and ... see all copies from $45.59! new only from $163.11!
7	Social Rights and Duties by Leslie Stephen, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Leslie Stephen (1832 -1904) was a well-known and prolific man of letters in Victorian England. After an education at Eton and King's College, Cambridge he was ordained priest, but religious doubts caused him to relinquish his holy orders in 1875. Instead, he turned to writing and published numerous books of history, moral philosophy, and literary ... see all copies from $15.60! new only from $17.58! \| first editions
8	American Theories of Polygenisis by Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist "American Theories of Polygenesis" is the first set in the "Concepts of Race in the Nineteenth Century" series edited by Robert Bernasconi. The seven-volume collection brings together key works on the creationist theory of polygenesis. In the mid-19th century, American ethnological research was dominated by two polygenists, Samuel George Morton ... see all copies from $249.98! new only from $249.98! \| first editions
9	Moses Mendelssohn: The First English Biography and Translations by Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Known as the father of the Jewish Enlightenment, Mendelssohn argued powerfully for religious toleration and Jewish emancipation. His campaign to take Jewish people into secular society brought him into conflict with both anti-Semites and conservative rabbis. These volumes include his biography, documents relating to the controversy and Mendelssohn ... see all copies from $76.00! new only from $76.00!
10	Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography more books like this by John Fiske (Editor), James Grant Wilson (Editor), Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist In 1886 James Grant Wilson and John Fiske lamented the fact that the United States of America lacked what several countries of the Old World already had - a truly comprehensive dictionary of national biography. To remedy the deficiency they began to co-edit the massive work which was published serially as "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American ... see all copies from $14.70! new only from $1,467.75! \| first editions
11	Kraepelin's Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch by Emil Kraepelin, John Gach (Editor), Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) was unquestionably the founder of modern psychiatry. He was the first to identify schizophrenia and manic-depression, and he pioneered the use of drugs to treat these and other mental illnesses. He was also joint discoverer of Alzheimer's disease (which he named after his collaborator, Dr Alois Alzheimer). In this, the ... see all copies from $406.23! new only from $849.75!
12 view cover	History of the European Languages more books like this by Alexander Murray, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Murray's account of the original language of Europe is an extension of Horne Tooke's ideas on language. In this two-volume work Murray sets out what he calls "the general rules of philological analysis". The book offers an intriguing insight into the state of language studies in the interim period between Sir William Jones's announcement of the ... see all copies from $26.43! new only from $26.43!
13 view cover	An Examination of Plato's Doctrines more books like this by I M Crombie, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist This wide-ranging, detailed and sophisticated work of Platonic commentary contains a comprehensive introduction to Plato's moral and political thinking, his philosophies of mind and religion, and his thoughts on the more technical topics of philosophy. Crombie's interpretations are sometimes unorthodox but are argued with great clarity. see all copies from $16.50! new only from $472.16! \| first editions
14	Miscellaneous Works and Commentaries by Thoemmes Press add to wishlist The works reprinted in this two-volume collection cover the length of Robertson's career, from his student days in 1737 to his closing years in 1789, and show his intellectual and stylistic evolution. Part One contains his lesser known writings and speeches. Subjects explored range from Greek translation to architectural history to university fund ... see all copies from $44.95! new only from $44.95!
15 view cover	The History of the Reign of Charles V by Thoemmes Press add to wishlist Robertson vividly shows how the modern European state was created by the rivalries of great princes and religious reformers out of the decaying feudal system and a Christian church sunk in Roman superstition. see all copies from $10.00! first editions
16 view cover	The Development of Modern Advertising more books like this by Morgen Witzel, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Advertising in one form or another has been around for millennia, and examples of advertising images and slogans can be found even in the classical world. From the 18th century onwards, advances in printing technology made mass advertising a reality. The late 19th and early 20th centuries brought a reappraisal; with increasingly large sums of ... see all copies from $419.17! new only from $601.99!
17 view cover	Big Business and the Muck-Rakers, more books like this by Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist The Muck-Rakers were a group of progressive journalists based around New York journals such as "McLure's Magazine" who, in the first decade of the 20th century, decided to take on the large trusts and the might of J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. Unlike the anti-globalization campaigners today, they were not against big business as such, but ... see all copies from $78.00! new only from $503.67!
18 view cover	The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School ... more books like this by Chen Huan-Chang add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK VII. DISTRIBUTION CHAPTER XXIV Genual Principles Op Distribution: Rent, Interest And Profits L General Principles Of Distribution In the economic theories of the ... see all copies from $42.38! new only from $42.38!
19 view cover	Collected Works of R.C. Jebb more books like this by Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905) is a leading figure in the history of British classical scholarship and education in the last third of the 19th century. Celebrated as an editor of all the surviving plays of Sophocles, Jebb, as this collection illustrates, had exceptionally wide interests in the field of classical studies and was keenly ... see all copies from $71.00!
20 view cover	The Early American Reception of German Idealism by James A Good (Editor), Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Many people say that mid 19th-century American philosophy was home-grown and uninfluenced by European ideas. But in fact there was an active group of American writers of the period whose outlook was cosmopolitan. They were well aware of the philosophical revolution that had occurred in German Idealism around 1800, and they sought to transplant it ... see all copies from $157.00! new only from $800.31!
21 view cover	Josiah Royce's Late Writings more books like this by Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist This 2-volume collection traces the later intellectual development of Josiah Royce, through 1912 to his death in 1916. This was the "Peirceanized" stage of his thought, when he undertook a detailed study of C.S. Peirce's works that lead ultimately to a re-examination and reshaping of his own philosophy. This resulted in, among other things, his ... see all copies from $50.00! new only from $336.81! \| first editions
22	A History of Prices and the State of Circulation from 1792 to 1856 more books like this by Thomas Tooke, William Newmarch, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist Thomas Tooke (1774-1858), economist, began his working life in various businesses in St. Petersburg and London. He took no important part in any public discussion of economic questions until 1819, in which year he gave evidence before public committees of both Houses of Parliament on the resumption of cash payments by the Bank of England. As a ... see all copies from $220.70! new only from $1,035.15!
23 view cover	The Diversions of Purley more books like this by John Horne Tooke, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist John Horne Tooke, radical politician (1736-1812) and the "father of rational philology", established his reptuation with the publication of his principal work, "The Diversions of Purley". Originally planned as a three-volume work, this early attempt at a scientific language study was extremely popular and much admired by James Mill and the ... see all copies from $40.00! first editions
24	The Data of Ethics: Bound with Justice more books like this by Thoemmes Press, Herbert Spencer, Michael Taylor (Editor) add to wishlist 'Spencer regarded the Principles of Ethics - of which The "Data of Ethics and "Justice constitutes parts one and four respectively - as the culmination and crowning achievement of the System of Synthetic Philosophy, to which the other volumes on biology, psychology, and sociology had been mere preliminaries' - Michael Taylor, from the Introduction ... see all copies from $34.47! signed copies
25	The Study of Sociology more books like this by Thoemmes Press add to wishlist Spencer's account of his sociologial doctrines. Its publication marked Spencer as a popular philosopher of the Victorian age. It was a influential in terms of the impetus it gave to the academic pursuit of the new science of sociology. see all copies from $12.72! new only from $100.00!

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