The Prince and other Writings by Niccolò Machiavelli; John Lotherington (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
The Prince and Other Writings, by Niccolo Machiavelli, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the re ...Show more
Understanding Animals - Philosophy for Dog and Cat Lovers by Lars Svendsen
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Category: Philosophy
How do animals perceive the world? What does it really feel like to be a cat or a dog? In Understanding Animals, Lars Svendsen investigates how humans can attempt to understand the lives of other animals. The book delves into animal communication, intelligence, self-awareness, loneliness, and grief, but ...Show more
21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges by Charles Handy
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Category: Philosophy
Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management - including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management - have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends - such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve - has changed the way we view ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphas ...Show more
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first ban ...Show more
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide T.. by Plutarch; Jeffrey Beneker; Plutarch Plutarch
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous--and massive--Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Gre ...Show more
Journeys by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Philosophy
For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Central Europe, visiting authors and friends and exploring the continen ...Show more
How to Win An Argument - Ancient Gde ... by Marcus Tullius Cicero; James A. May
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct-and often failing as a result-we'd win more arguments if we learned th ...Show more
Philosophy In The Garden by Damon Young
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Category: Philosophy
Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his thought tree? In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young explores one of literature's most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens. For some, the garden ...Show more
At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
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Category: Philosophy
From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the 20th century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young J ...Show more
How the French Think by Sudhir HAZAREESINGH
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Category: Philosophy
WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEES The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ...French.
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
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Category: Philosophy
We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and contradictions that we need to address in order to better u ...Show more