Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

An Introduction

Symbolic Logic

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Utah

The Magic Mountain

Anne Friedberg

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

From Alberti to Microsoft

From the Renaissance idea of the painting as an open window to the nested windows and multiple images on today's cinema, television, and computer screens: a cultural history of the metaphoric, literal, and virtual window. As we spend more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices—"windows" full of moving images, texts, and icons—how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized reality we see on the screen. In De pictura (1435), Leon Battista Alberti famously instructed painters to consider the frame of the painting as an open window. Taking Alberti's metaphor as her starting point, Friedberg tracks shifts in the perspectival paradigm as she gives us histories of the architectural window, developments in glass and transparency, and the emerging apparatuses of photography, cinema, television, and digital imaging. Single-point perspective—Alberti's metaphorical window—has long been challenged by modern painting, modern architecture, and moving-image technologies. And yet, notes Friedberg, for most of the twentieth century the dominant form of the moving image was a single image in a single frame. The fractured modernism exemplified by cubist painting, for example, remained largely confined to experimental, avant-garde work. On the computer screen, however, where multiple 'windows' coexist and overlap, perspective may have met its end. In this wide-ranging book, Friedberg considers such topics as the framed view of the camera obscura, Le Corbusier's mandates for the architectural window, Eisenstein's opinions on the shape of the movie screen, and the multiple images and nested windows commonly displayed on screens today. The Virtual Window proposes a new logic of visuality, framed and virtual: an architecture not only of space but of time.

The Virtual Window

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Chip Heath

Dan Heath

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children? This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was that simple question?) Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck—but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.

The Power of Moments

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Robert L. Heilbroner

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

The Worldly Philosophers

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Some slight damage on back left top corner pages, otherwise in good condition. 
Still debating on this one, buy before I change my mind!!! 

California

Magic and Mystery In Tibet

Published 1981, *Italian Edition* - Tons of scribbling and notes on back pages

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

 Proverbi Siciliani

Iris Murdoch

Book is in excellent condition. Pages are very crisp. You will be the first person to open this book all the way. First Edition copy

Vermont

First Edition

Explores the relationship of an honored philosophy professor, John Robert Rozanov, and one of his students, George McCaffrey, revealing the intensities and nuances of their various personal attachments.

The Philosopher's Pupil

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Robert C. Bartlett

Unopened set of 12 lectures on 6 CDs

Professor Robert C. Bartlett is Professor of Political Science at Emory University. His principal research concerns the history of moral and political philosophy, with special attention to the political thought of classical antiquity. Professor Bartlett has been recognized for excellence in undergraduate lecturing by the Emory student body and for excellence in teaching by the Emory University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Florida

Philosophy

Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle

Masters of Greek Thought

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Jean Paul Sartre

3 books by Jean-Paul Sartre : The Age of Reason , The Reprieve , Troubled Sleep. All paperbacks with cover wear & some creased pages. Age of Reason has a ripped back cover/last page, & it had a mascara coupon stuck to page 169... it will rip the page if removed... 
Otherwise all 3 books are in pretty good shape

Michigan

The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

3 books by Jean-Paul Sartre : The Age of Reason , The Reprieve , Troubled Sleep

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#whydoyouthinkthisway, #philosophy, #criticalthinking

Delaware

Why Do You Think the Way You Do?

THiNK offers instructors core content and pedagogy in a succinct magazine format that teaches them the importance of overcoming feelings and opinions to commit to positions based on reason and logic. Boss's 3rd edition is powered by Connect Critical Thinking, a state of the art digital learning environment that helps you connect your students to their coursework. Whether accessing online homework and quizzes, or assigning SmartBook and LearnSmart, the first and only adaptive learning experience, Connect provides a complete digital solution for your classroom. With extensive opportunity for application and practice, and groundbreaking digital content, THiNK directs students to make connections between skill development and apply it to their college studies, careers, and personal lives.

Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect#65533; is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following:

* SmartBook#65533; - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content.
* Access to your instructor's homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course.
* Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement.
* The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping.

Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

Think

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Minnesota

What’s The Right Thing To Do

Justice

Richard M. Gamble

The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being, edited by Richard M. Gamble.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being

Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition--the Great Tradition--of education in the West is waiting to be heard. Since antiquity, the Great Tradition has defined education first and foremost as the hard work of rightly ordering the human soul, helping it to love what it ought to love, and helping it to know itself and its maker. In the classical and Christian tradition, the formation of the soul in wisdom, virtue, and eloquence took precedence over all else, including instrumental training aimed at the inculcation of "useful" knowledge.

Edited by historian Richard Gamble, this anthology reconstructs a centuries-long conversation about the goals, conditions, and ultimate value of true education. Spanning more than two millennia, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary writers, it includes substantial excerpts from more than sixty seminal writings on education. Represented here are the wisdom and insight of such figures as Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero, Basil, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Erasmus, Edmund Burke, John Henry Newman, Thomas Arnold, Albert Jay Nock, Dorothy Sayers, C. S. Lewis, and Eric Voegelin.

In an unbroken chain of giving and receiving, The Great Tradition embraced the accumulated wisdom of the past and understood education as the initiation of students into a body of truth. This unique collection is designed to help parents, students, and teachers reconnect with this noble legacy, to articulate a coherent defense of the liberal arts tradition, and to do battle with the modern utilitarians and vocationalists who dominate educational theory and practice.

The Great Tradition

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Michael A. Singer

Massachusetts

The Journey Beyond Yourself

The Untethered Soul

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Timothy Freke

Peter Gandy

Was the Original Jesus a Pagan God?

Drawing on the cutting edge of modern scholarship, this astonishing book completely undermines the traditional history of Christianity that has been perpetuated for centuries by the Church and presents overwhelming evidence that the Jesus of the New Testament is a mythical figure. “Whether you conclude that this book is the most alarming heresy of the millennium or the mother of all revelations, The Jesus Mysteries deserves to be read.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram Far from being eyewitness accounts, as is traditionally held, the Gospels are actually Jewish adaptations of ancient Pagan myths of the dying and resurrecting godman Osiris-Dionysus. The supernatural story of Jesus is not the history of a miraculous Messiah but a carefully crafted spiritual allegory designed to guide initiates on a journey of mystical discovery. A little more than a century ago, most people believed that the strange story of Adam and Eve was history; today it is understood to be a myth. Within a few decades, authors Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy argue, we will likewise be amazed that the fabulous story of God incarnate—who was born of a virgin, who turned water into wine, and who rose from the dead—could have been interpreted as anything but a profound parable.

The Jesus Mysteries

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#paperback #1958 #philosophy #logic #puzzles #symboliclogic #symbolic 

Includes both books

Symbolic Logic and The Game of Logic

Alain de Botton

Like New, First Edition! Very minor wear on dust-jacket edge(see photo). 

A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false--but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.
 
Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it--because the world's religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world.
 
For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.

Religion for Atheists

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David J. Chalmers

Virtual reality is genuine reality: thats the general thesis of Reality +

Oregon

Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already. Along the way, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of big ideas in philosophy and science. He uses virtual reality technology to offer a new perspective on long-established philosophical questions. How do we know that there’s an external world? Is there a god? What is the nature of reality? What’s the relation between mind and body? How can we lead a good life? All of these questions are illuminated or transformed by Chalmers’ mind-bending analysis. Studded with illustrations that bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a major statement that will shape discussion of philosophy, science, and technology for years to come.

Reality+

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Alan Watts

Deepak Chopra

A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Suggests that the best way to achieve security in life is to let go of the anxiety associated with the past and future, understand and accept the limits of technology and science, and to focus on the present moment.

The Wisdom of Insecurity

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John Haggai

Thoughtful and prayerful guide to inner peace #mindfulness #God #Christian #Christ #mentalhealth #philosophy

In this three-in-one Collection, Dr. Haggai stresses that by finding strength in the power and love of God, you can face life's hardships and overcome your personal doubts. Learn how to meet the challenges of each day by accepting the gift of God's grace and choosing to become a confident, enthusiastic and peaceful person. Dr. Haggai explores some tough questions and gives God's strong and loving answers to suffering, loneliness, death and separation. Fear must be confronted if it is to be conquered, and you must choose to love and trust God rather than fear the world. Dr. Haggai teaches you how to take God as your partner in winning over worry and attain the perpetual, perfect, indestructible that comes only from Him.

Winning over Pain, Fear and Worry

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Daniel Gardner

Besides one small little crease in the bottom, right hand corner, this is an excellent condition.

Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition

This text explains the significance of Zhu Xi's interpretation of the Confucian tradition and of the genre of commentary in Eastern philosophy.

Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects

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Erich von Däniken believes that the 'Chariots of the Gods' that appear in the myths and legends of peoples all over the world, from the Mayas to the Ancient Egyptians, from the Australian Aboriginals to the Jews of the Old Testament, were really visiting space-ships; and that the gods themselves were no other than cosmonauts, depicted in rock paintings and ancient stone carvings in the caves of Tassili in the Sahara, Mayan burial chambers and Assyrian cylinder seals, and described in the writings of the Judaic prophet Enoch.

In this book, he sets his evidence before us again, in pictorial form, and asks us to judge for ourselves. What explanation can we offer for aerodynamically perfect model airplanes dating from the times of the Pharaohs, or a map, drawn by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis in 1513, showing longitudinal positions with an accuracy 'impossible' before the 18th century, and contours of Antarctica only discovered by modern survey methods in 1952?

Von Däniken has assembled much new evidence for his theories, and in his text develops his speculations about the ancient visits from the stars. He asks us to look at our experience with new eyes, to open our imaginations to a set of staggering possibilities, presenting plenty of pictorial evidence.

1st Edition

In Search Of Ancient Gods: My Pictorial Evidence for the Impossible

Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Daniken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it... * An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid
* Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts
* Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins
* A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica
* A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes
Includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization.

Chariots of the Gods

Lee Carroll

ISBN-13: 978-1401900502
Weight: 10.4 oz
Dimensions: 4 x 1.25 x 5.5 inches
Cards: 51
Publisher: Hay House Inc; Gmc Crds edition (January 1, 2002)

Description:
All packaged in a beautiful gift box, these one-of-a-kind card decks are all exquisitely illustrated. Each deck contains 44 or more vibrant cards. Some include booklets--all form bestselling authors--that will teach, enlighten, and inspire!

Condition: 
The average price online goes from $43 - $35 , best price you will find! Cards only, pamphlet missing but everything is in excellent condition  


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