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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Great Ideas That Shaped Our World

E=MC2. A brilliant premise, but you could never understand it till now. Physics, genetics, chemistry, biology, astronomy: science is changing so rapidly, that it's almost impossible for a novice to keep track of the new ideas that are shaping our present...and altering our future. Here's a friendly, expert guide that will steer you through the modern maze of knowledge, a nuts-and-bolts "factopedia" that hones in on the really big concepts that have made an impact on our world. Getting the information you're looking for is simplicity itself: just turn to any one of the basic sections--The World Around Us, The Humanity Within Us, and The Mind Within Us-to find full coverage of all the key movers and shakers, handily listed in specific subsections by their discipline. There's no plunging through a mass of extraneous information; each gets right to the heart of the matter. There's no better way to stay scientifically informed!


E = Mc2

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Francois Voltaire

Theo Cuffe

Michael Wood

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A classic, satiric novel, by the noted 18th century French author and philosopher chronicles the misadventures of the naïve Candide, who continues to manifest her belief that "all is for the best" despite the injustice, despair, and suffering she encounters in life. Reprint.

Candide

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Kentucky

Two Plus Two Equals Reality

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Haim Shapira

Dent on the bottom right corner of the back cover. The indent from it can be faintly seen for the last maybe 50pgs. (Shown in photos)

Told in a positive, no-nonsense tone, this is the ultimate tour of philosophers, artists and academics throughout the ages by philosopher Haim Shapira. Notes on the Art of Life is Haim Shapira's version of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book – a discursive and intensely personal collection of thoughts on life; a tribute to the importance of the here and now; the value of the moment and of paying attention to it. This is a personal, cheerful and idiosyncratic tour through the thoughts and experiences of philosophers, artists and academics, finding a path through the contradictions of philosophy and the intractable challenges of life (both existential and mundane). Content includes: Exploring a wide range of philosophies, from Aristotle to Zhuang Zhu and Epicurus to Socrates Tour the arts and thoughts of Abd al-Rahman III to Tolstoy, via Chekhov and Goethe Examine a myriad of essential topics, from silence and regret to happiness and other small things of absolute importance. And arriving finally at love. This book is like having a chatty and quite excitable friend guide you round a library of good books and different schools of thought. A companion who aims to comfort and reassure you about the complexities and challenges of life and of thinking about life.

Notes on the Art of Life

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#paperback #philosophy #mathematics #science 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Birkh'auser, 1981.

The Mathematical Experience

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#paperback #cosmology #physics #philosophy #space #science 

Paul Davies explains the significance of the amazing quantum universe, where fact is stranger than any science fiction. He takes us into a world where commonsense notions of space, time, and causality must be left behind as the realm of solid matter dissolves into vibrating patterns of ghostly energy, and where mind and matter are interwoven in a subtle and holistic manner. An Australian physicist and author of GOD AND THE NEW PHYSICS, Davies writes for the lay reader in simple language.

Other Worlds - Space, Superspace and the Quantum Universe

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James Miller

Georgia

Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche

Before the good life was reduced to a bottle of Prozac, it was philosophers who offered answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and how to live well. In The Philosophical Life, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short and spirited biographies of twelve famous thinkers, examining the interplay of their life and thought. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant, to Kant, who wrestled with hypochondria while advocating arch-rationality in his writings, each thinker took their own unique approach to ‘the good life’, but often struggled to put their theories into practice. With a flair for rich anecdote, Miller provides a captivating insight into some of history’s greatest thinkers – and confirms the continuing relevance of philosophy today.

The Philosophical Life

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Michael Lind

Has a small 3/4 inch tear in the dust jacket. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alaska

The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President

What Lincoln Believed

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1963 first edition from Harper and Row. Includes plastic dust jacket cover. A signature from the previous owner (pen) and a price from an previous book seller (pencil) is on the front page. Jacket is clipped on one part of the the inside flap. Very slight jacket wear with one small tear.

New Mexico

An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy 

The Responsible Self (1963, 1st edition)

(Note: I might be willing to bundle this book with The Shemitah for $6.85 upon request). #hardcover #bible #EndofDays #worldevents #BibleProphecy #BiblicalStudies #WorldNews  #Philosophy #Religion #biblical 

Kansas

The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

INSTANT NATIONAL BEST SELLER!!

Debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller list, as well as at No. 5 on Wall Street Journal and No. 6 on the Publisher's Weekly lists. 

Over 300K copies sold

Over 1,000 5***** Star Reviews

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARBINGER, THE MYSTERY OF THE SHEMITAH, THE BOOK OF MYSTERIES, AND THE PARADIGM WITH OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD



This May Be the Most Explosive and Amazing Thing You've Ever Read



Is it possible that there exists an ancient master blueprint that holds the secret behind the events of our times?

Could this blueprint lie behind the rise and fall of leaders and governments?

Could events that took place nearly 3,000 years ago now be determining the course of our world and with it the course of our lives?

Could ancient figures from the Middle East hold the key to the leaders of our own day, what they do, when they rise, and when they fall?

Is it possible that this ancient paradigm has determined not only the events of modern times but also their timing--even down to the exact dates?

Could a mystery from the ancient Middle East have foretold the outcomes of current events more accurately than any poll or expert--even the outcomes of presidential elections?

Has this mystery even touched the events of your life?

Does the paradigm reveal what will take place in the future?

And does it contain a warning critical for every person in this generation?



Prepare to be stunned, shocked, illuminated, and amazed. The Paradigm will reveal secrets and mysteries taking place all around you and show you what you never could have imagined. Jonathan Cahn, who caused an international stir with his New York Times best-selling book The Harbinger, will take you from the ancient Middle East to the news of the modern world on a journey you will never forget. As you open up The Paradigm, his most explosive book yet, you may never see your world the same way again.

The Paradigm

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Values and attitudes drawn from the Gospels. #paperback #religious #catholic #church #selfhelp #philosophy #grace

Wisconsin

Spiritual Answers to Psychological Questions

Therapeutic meditations that show how human weakness can be changed by grace, prayer, insight, and choice into stepping stones on the road to God.+

Stumbling Blocks

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Indiana

An Anthology of Sacred Prose

A magnificent compilation of sacred writings from all traditions and the perfect companion to Stephen Mitchell's poetry collection, The Enlightened Heart, and the bestselling Tao Te Ching.

The Enlightened Mind

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José Saramago

Margaret Jull Costa

Slight jacket wear. Pages crisp, clean. Spine in great condition. Devoid of dog ears and scribbles. Please reference photos.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

While Death sits in her apartment contemplating the world around her and wondering what would happen if she became human and fell in love, no one dies, raising concerns among politicians, religious leaders, doctors, morticians, and others as they confront the harsh realities of eternal life.

Death with Interruptions

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Jim Collins

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship with in hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Texas

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Wayne A. Rebhorn

Wayne A. Rebhorn, Celanese Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas, has authored numerous studies of Renaissance European literature. His Foxes and Lions: Machiavellis Confidence Men won the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Modern Language Association of America in 1990.

The Prince and Other Writings

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Robert M. Pirsig

An Inquiry into Values

One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father and his young son. A story of love and fear -- of growth, discovery, and acceptance -- that becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions, this uniquely exhilarating modern classic is both touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence . . . and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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#paperback #fiction #bestseller #spiritual #religion #heaven #mitchalbom #philosophy #inspirational #classic 

A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Oregon

Dynamic Laws of Thinking Rich

Edward O. Wilson

New Jersey

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his most expansive and advanced theories on human behaviour. Whether attempting to explicate "the Riddle of the Human Species", warning of "the Collapse of Biodiversity" or creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.", Wilson believes that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. Alarmed, however, that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma in millennia.

The Meaning of Human Existence

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Delaware

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds human life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society. More than 1.3 million copies sold!

The Virtue of Selfishness

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In his 1500-year-old Confessions, Augustine of Hippo tells the story of his remarkable life, interwoven with his insights of endless wisdom. Noted Paul VI- 'all of antiquity's philosophy converges in his work.'


The Confessions of Saint Augustine

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Thomas Cathcart

Daniel Klein

Nebraska

Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school. Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR’s Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read—and finally, it all makes sense! And now, you can read Daniel Klein's further musings on life and philosophy in Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it.

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ...

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Thomas Aquinas

John A. Oesterle

Maryland

The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of the Summa Theologiae. From his careful consideration of what true happiness is, to his comprehensive discussion of how it can be attained, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a challenging and classic statement of the goals of human life, both ultimate and proximate. This translation presents in accurate, consistent, contemporary English the great Christian thinker's enduring contributions on the subject of man's happiness.

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E = Mc2

Francois Voltaire; Theo Cuffe; Michael Wood

Candide

William Samuel

Two Plus Two Equals Reality

Haim Shapira

Notes on the Art of Life

Phillip J. Davis (Editor); Gian-Carlo Rota (Introduction by); Reuben Hersh; Elena A. Marchisotto

The Mathematical Experience

Paul Davies

Other Worlds - Space, Superspace and the Quantum Universe

James Miller

The Philosophical Life

Michael Lind

What Lincoln Believed

H. Richard Niebuhr; James M. Gustafson

The Responsible Self (1963, 1st edition)

Jonathan Cahn

The Paradigm

Benedict J. Groeschel

Stumbling Blocks

Stephen Mitchell

The Enlightened Mind

José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa

Death with Interruptions

Jim Collins

Good to Great

Niccolo Machiavelli; Wayne A. Rebhorn

The Prince and Other Writings

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

J. V. Cerney

Dynamic Laws of Thinking Rich

Edward O. Wilson

The Meaning of Human Existence

Ayn Rand

The Virtue of Selfishness

Rex Warner (Translator); Martin E. Marty (Introduction by, Afterword by); Elizabeth Block (Foreword by)

The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Thomas Cathcart; Daniel Klein

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Thomas Aquinas; John A. Oesterle

Treatise on Happiness

James Daley

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