Category - Philosophy
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and ...
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "There's no...
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An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid
HardcoverOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today's culture wars."--Hope Jahren The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad A...
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The Secrets of Words
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History Of Famous Orators: Accomplished Speaker
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Cicero is considered to be Rome's greatest orator and prose writer. His writing is some of the best classical Latin still in existence. Cicero intr...
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Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: ...
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Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy: A Journey Through Meaning
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The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The story of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism. In The Evolution of Pragmatism in India, Scott R. Stroud...
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Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment...
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "It's undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings...Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human exp...
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On Writing and Failure: Or, on the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative ...
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense
HardcoverOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company's 'organizational intelligen...
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Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, and Designa in the acclaimed Wooden Books series, Trivium is a compendium of writings on the class...
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The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now reissued for contemporary readers, this entertaining primer on critical thinking has been teaching people to think and speak more clearly for...
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Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern l...
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a ri...
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