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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities
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Lawrence Cunningham
CULTURE AND VALUES, Fifth Edition continues to combine balanced coverage of literature, art, music, and philosophy with sociological insight into the daily life of the characters in the unfolding drama of Western civilization. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without readings, this text remains the most readable and ...
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Classics of Western philosophy
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The seventh edition of Steven Cahn's "Classics of Western Philosophy" features several major additions, including selections from Plotinus' "Enneads", Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation", Husserl's "Paris Lectures", Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", and a new selection from Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". ...
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Passion of the Western Mind
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"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time". SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great ...
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
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Keith H Basso
Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.
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History of Western Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell, Earl
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, ...
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Fundamentals of Philosophy
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David Stewart
For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Introduction to Philosophy.An accessible reader/text for beginning students of philosophy, this volume offers a broad scope of diverse classic and contemporary selections -- with a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. The readings are ...
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Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia
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Harvey Arden
Written by the co-author of "Wisdomkeepers", this book reveals the world of the Aborigines of the Kimberley region of Australia - "the land beyond goodby". Harvey Arden introduces readers to aboriginal men and women - rough-edged stockmen and gold hunters, storytellers and healers, poets and artists, spiritual elders and traditional Law Men - as ...
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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Joseph Jacobs (Translator), Baltasar Gracian y Morales
Written in the seventeenth century, this collection of three hundred timeless maxims offers sage advice on how to impress superiors, confound rivals, and get the most from subordinates. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Alternate Edition (with CD-ROM)
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Lawrence S Cunningham, John J Reich
Covers Western cultures and non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature and more.
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Art of Worldly Wisdom
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Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit, The Art of Worldly Wisdom is strikingly modern in sensibility and tone. This timeless collection of maxims addresses universal concerns such as friendship, morality, and effective leadership. This edition features a lengthy introduction by Willis Barnstone, former Distinguished Professor of ...
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The passion of the western mind : understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view.
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Richard Tarnas
A collection of the pivotal ideas from the great minds of Western civilization. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, their concepts are described simply but without simplifying them.
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Philosophy and Contemporary Issues
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John Roy Burr
For courses in Introduction to Philosophy or Contemporary Philosophy. One of the most successful texts in its field over the last 20 years, Philosophy and Contemporary Issues introduces today's students to philosophy with timely, approachable readings of philosophical significance. The authors strive to demonstrate how philosophy illuminates and ...
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The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud
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Philip Rieff
A look at the role of faith in the post-Freudian world, by the author of FREUD: The Mind of a Moralist.
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A History of Western Philosophy
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W. T. Jones
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The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
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Kieran Egan
Egan reconceives intellectual development as learning to use particular "intellectual tools"--such as language or literacy--which shape how we make sense of the world. The book concludes with practical proposals for implementing changes in teaching and curriculum.
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The Western intellectual tradition, from Leonardo to Hegel
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Jacob Bronowski, Bruce Mazlish
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We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
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Etienne Balibar, James Swenson (Translator)
Etienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In "We, the People of Europe?", he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently ...
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Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
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Morris Berman
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The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
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Miguel De Unamuno, Miguel De Unamuno, Anthony Kerrigan (Editor)
Unamuno expressed the anguish of modern man in his passionate concept of the Tragic Sense of life, the continual struggle within the 'man of flesh and blood' between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart. This book is his acknowledged masterpiece.
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Our Natural History
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Biologist and naturalist Daniel Botkin recreates the journey of Lewis and Clark, using it to draw lessons about the environment and humanity's place within it.
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Thales to Dewey; a history of philosophy.
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Gordon Haddon Clark
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The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America
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Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
A controversial work by a disciple of the philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand. Peikoff maintains that Americans have been seduced by collectivist ideas concerning politics and culture, and that American society in consequence is heading towards a future society that will resemble Nazi Germany in its glorification of the group over the individual.
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Great Frontier
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Walter Prescott Webb
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Coming to Our Senses
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Morris Berman
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The Humanities, Cultural Roots and Continuities
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