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1	Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets more books like this by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, PH.D., MBA Selected by Amazon.com and the Financial Times as one of the best business books of the year, Fooled by Randomness is an instant classic. It's uniqueness has drawn to it a wide following - from the New Yorker to the Pentagon. Already published in 14 languages, this new edition, expanded by over 80 pages, includes up-to-date advances from ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $9.02! \| SVS
2	The Bondage of the Will more books like this by Martin Luther A classic reference, fundamental to an understanding of the original doctrines of the Reformation. see all copies from $4.83! new only from $4.83! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Freedom Evolves more books like this by Daniel C Dennett FREEDOM EVOLVES charts the compatibility that can exist between free will and determinism. Dennett, author of CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED and DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA, continues his philosophical inquiry into the workings of the mind and how it negotiates the realms of choice and scientific necessity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Not Passion's Slave: Emotions and Choice more books like this by Robert C Solomon The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents a "cognitive" theory of emotions in which ... see all copies from $4.35! new only from $7.83! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The power of ethical management more books like this by Norman Vincent Peale, Kenneth H. Blanchard This work aims to prove that you don't have to cheat to win. It shows how to bring integrity back into business and offers practical and ethical strategies that build profits, productivity and long-term success. see all copies from $1.99!
6	Essence of Human Freedom more books like this by Dr. Martin Heidegger, Ted Sadler (Translator) This is a fundamental text for understanding Heidegger's view of Greek philosophy and its relationship to modern philosophy. After a preliminary discussion of the problem of freedom and its relationship to philosophy, Heidegger devotes the first part primarily to the meaning of "being" in Greek metaphysics, thus providing the framework for his ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $15.29! \| SVS
7	Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster more books like this by Allan Combs, Mark Holland Carl Jung coined the term 'synchronicity' to describe meaningful concidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with the great quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung sought to reveal these coincidences as phenomena that involve mind and matter, science and spirit. This could provide rational explanations for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $58.40! \| first editions
8	A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will more books like this by Robert Kane Accessible to students with no background in the subject, "A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will" provides an extensive and up-to-date overview of all the latest views on this central problem of philosophy. Opening with a concise introduction to the history of the problem of free will - and its place in the history of philosophy - the book then ... see all copies from $16.12! new only from $18.73! \| SVS
9	The Illusion of Conscious Will more books like this by Daniel M Wegner Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $15.81! \| SVS
10	The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know more books like this by David Richo You miss your plane by five minutes, but on the next flight you find a book in the seat pocket that ends up changing your direction in life. You order a red dress, but a black one arrives. Just as you're about to send it back, the phone rings and you learn that your aunt has died. Meaningful coincidences and surprising connections occur all the ... see all copies from $8.08! new only from $8.08! \| SVS
11 view cover	Catastrophe: An Investigation Into the Origins of the Modern World more books like this by David Keys A journalist explains how the eruption of a volcano in the year 535 impacted on world history. The aftereffects of the eruption included a huge cloud of dust that affected climate and crops--and Keys connects the supereruption on Java to events as disparate as the death of King Arthur and the emergence of Islam. see all copies from $22.50! new only from $89.99! \| first editions
12 view cover	Randomness more books like this by Deborah J Bennett This work is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking. It is also an account of what makes the science of probalitity daunting in our own day. To acquire a (correct) intuition of chance is not easy to begin with, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.36! \| SVS
13 view cover	Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting more books like this by Daniel C Dennett Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked 'could I have chosen otherwise?' after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly fascinating subject. Daniel Dennett, whose previous books include "Brainstorms "and (with Douglas Hofstadter) "The Mind's I, "tackles the free will ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $11.87! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology more books like this by R C Sproul, Jr. R.\u00a0C. Sproul refutes the view of many contemporary scientists that chance can cause something to come into being or cause an event to occur. see all copies from $2.41! new only from $5.32!
15 view cover	Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness more books like this by Henri Louis Bergson Reissue from the classic Muirhead Library of Philosophy series (originally published between 1890s - 1970s). see all copies from $7.65! new only from $9.60! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life more books like this by Nicholas Rescher Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong--though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in a cogent, concerted way. In "Luck," one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Free Will more books like this by Milada Broukal The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work. Topics explored in this collection include: the relation between necessity, ... see all copies from $24.99! new only from $28.07! \| SVS
18 view cover	How Free Are You?: The Determinism Problem more books like this by Ted Honderich This is a fully revised, enlarged and up-to-date edition of Ted Honderich's modern classic 'How Free Are You? The Determinism Problem'. In the first four chapters, he sets out a determinist philosophy of mind, in response to the question 'Is there a really clear, consistent and complete version of determinism?' He also considers whether there is ... see all copies from $4.74! new only from $9.88! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Taming of Chance more books like this by Ian Hacking, Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor) In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $19.68! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The 120 Days of Sodom more books like this by The Marquis De Sade, James Havoc (Translator) A new translation, with innovative modern formatting of the most extreme book in the history of literature. In an atrocity bible that permanently curses, scars and negates history, The Marquis de Sade narrates the escalating sex-crimes of four libertines who barricade themselves in a remote castle for a four-month orgy in a masterpiece of ... see all copies from $12.35! new only from $12.35! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Freedom & It's Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty more books like this by Sir Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Jr. (Editor) Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were broadcast by the BBC in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years later. They comprise one of Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and on the history of ideas--views that later found expression in ... see all copies from $5.54! new only from $14.97! \| first editions
22 view cover	Freedom & Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility more books like this by Paul Russell In this book, Russell examines Hume's notion of free will and moral responsibility. It is widely held that Hume presents us with a classic statement of the "compatibilist" position-that freedom and responsibility can be reconciled with causation and, indeed, actually require it. Russell argues that this is a distortion of Hume's view, because it ... see all copies from $14.13! new only from $26.80! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	On Divination & Synchronicity more books like this by Marie-Louise von Franz Penetrating study of the psychological aspects of time, number and methods of divining fate such as the I Ching, astrology, Tarot, palmistry, dice, etc., contrasting Western scientific attitudes with those of the Chinese and so-called primitives. see all copies from $16.00! new only from $18.17!
24 view cover	As Luck Would Have It: Incredible Stories, from Lottery Wins to Lightning Strikes more books like this by Joshua Piven Incredible true-life stories of people who experienced amazing good fortune are delivered by the coauthor of the bestselling "Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control more books like this by Alfred R Mele Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behaviour is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationality - most incontinent action and self-deception - pose such difficult problems that philosophers have rejected them as logically or psychologically impossible. Here, Alfred Mele shows that incontinent action and self deception are ... see all copies from $26.70! new only from $39.66! \| first editions \| SVS

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