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1	The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America more books like this by Louis Menand, III add to wishlist In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. 21 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Composing a Life more books like this by Mary Catherine Bateson add to wishlist This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici more books like this by Miles J Unger add to wishlist Unger presents this new biography of the brilliant and ruthless statesman Lorenzo de' Medici, whose wielding of power helped nurture the Italian Renaissance. 8 pages of color photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts more books like this by Clive James add to wishlist Containing more than 100 original essays organized by quotations, James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. 110 photographs. see all copies from $2.66! new only from $11.27! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Dream of Scipio more books like this by Iain M Pears, M.D add to wishlist This novel about idealism and its attendant disappointments begins in the fifth century B.C.E., when a scholarly writer named Manlius devoted his life to upholding the ideals of civilization against creeping barbarism--a resolve that includes armed force. The story continues into the 14th century, during the time of the Black Plague, when an agent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People more books like this by Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, Michele Root-Bernstein add to wishlist This illustrated book describes how geniuses--from obvious choices such as Albert Einstein to less obvious figures like author Isabel Allende--have used specific mental skills that all individuals possess to create breakthrough ideas in the arts and sciences. The authors insist that all geniuses experience a slow process of intellectual evolution, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Anti-Intellectualism in American Life more books like this by Richard Hostadter, Richard Hofstadter add to wishlist A book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. see all copies from $10.32! new only from $10.78! \| SVS
8	The Ordeal of Change more books like this by Eric Hoffer add to wishlist Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Nowhere is this more evident than in Hoffer's seminal work, The Ordeal of Change, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Point Counter Point more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Huxley's celebrated fictional portrait of London intellectuals in the 1920s includes such characters as the decadent painter John Bidlake and his son Walter, Walter's hapless wife Marjorie Carling, the vile fascist politician Everard Webley, the thoroughly unpleasant Maurice Spandrell, and a revolutionary named Illidge. These characters are offset ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Intellectuals more books like this by Paul Johnson add to wishlist Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles? How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends? Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Morningside Heights more books like this by Cheryl Mendelson add to wishlist The characters in this novel live in Morningside Heights, an Upper West Side neighborhood near Columbia University. The Braithwaite family is confronted with having to leave their pricey and too-small apartment, while at the same time the entire community is stunned by the mysterious death of an elderly resident of the building. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Century more books like this by John Julius Norwich add to wishlist Norwich's collection of essays celebrates Venice with forays into the lives of famous Venetians and visitors, including Byron, Napoleon, Ruskin, Henry James, Whistler, Sargent, and the very naughty Baron Corvo. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	My Past & Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen more books like this by Dwight MacDonald (Editor), Alexander Herzen add to wishlist Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the greatest works of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, he became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures of his time: as theorist, polemicist, propagandist, ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	A Personal Odyssey more books like this by Thomas Sowell add to wishlist The famed economist and social commentator looks back on his life and remembers the people who helped him at key points along the way. Raised in Harlem, Sowell was a Marine, attended Harvard and Columbia, and has presented his conservative views in the leading newspapers and magazines in America--as well as in his best-selling books. see all copies from $2.81! new only from $5.93! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman more books like this by Francine Du Plessix Gray add to wishlist Bestselling author du Plessix Gray chronicles the incandescent life of the most celebrated--and one of the most controversial--woman of letters of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. see all copies from $14.71! new only from $14.71! \| SVS
16 view cover	Crome Yellow more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Crome is an English country house to which Denis, an intensely self-conscious youth and would-be poet, goes to join a house party populated by a collection of eccentrics, spiritualists, psychoanalysands, aesthetes, and Communists. Denis falls in love with one of the guests but has an otherwise miserable time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Samuel Johnson: The Struggle more books like this by Jeffrey Meyers add to wishlist Ford Madox Ford declared Samuel Johnson the most tragic of all our major literary figures. Blessed with a formidable intellect and a burning passion for ideas, Johnson also struggled throughout his life with mental instability and numerous physical defects. One of the most illustrious figures of the English literary tradition, Johnson made his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
18 view cover	Memoirs of Hecate County more books like this by Edmund Wilson add to wishlist A favorite among his own books, Wilson's erotic and devastating portrait of the upper middle-class still holds up as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America. Attacked in court when originally published in 1946 and banned in New York state for several years, "The Memoirs of Hecate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.75! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture more books like this by Joseph J Ellis add to wishlist Through portraits of four figures - Charles Wilson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap and Noah Webster - this text provides a perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both it's high expectations and it's frustrations. Each life is fascinating in its own right and each is used to illuminate the historical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.74! \| SVS
20 view cover	Representations of the Intellectual more books like this by Professor Edward W Said add to wishlist Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six stunning essays - delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures - Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special ... see all copies from $3.76! new only from $7.26! \| SVS
21 view cover	Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power more books like this by Ross King add to wishlist In this latest addition to the Eminent Lives series, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Brunelleschis Dome" offers a striking portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher and the age he embodied. see all copies from $5.56! new only from $8.39! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Russian Thinkers more books like this by Sir Isaiah Berlin add to wishlist Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming one of the key liberal intellects of the last century some of his most important contributions were on the subject of Russia and the concept of freedom. In the ten essays gathered here, Berlin addresses the great Russian minds of the nineteenth century: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual more books like this by Harold Cruse add to wishlist In his classic, and controversial, book from 1967, THE CRISIS OF THE NEGRO INTELLECTUAL, Harold Cruse connects to a larger tradition of writing about African-American empowerment from within that goes far back and includes writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Using language that was highly charged--some would say intemperate at ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions
24 view cover	Seven men who rule the world from the grave more books like this by Dave Breese add to wishlist David Breese identifies seven men who, even though they rest in their graves, influence the world in negative ways through their ideas. They include: Darwin, Marx, Wellhausen, Dewey, Freud, Keynes, and Kierkegaard. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream more books like this by Greg Sarris add to wishlist A Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. In this text, Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight - the white ... see all copies from $4.89! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions

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