15 books in Philosophy - Modern
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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Written by Alain De Botton
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
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Written by Alain De Botton
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Hacker Ethic
Written by Pekka Himanen
Prologue by Linus Torvalds
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $19.00
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the... Read more >
Written by Pekka Himanen
Prologue by Linus Torvalds
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $19.00
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how that life frustrates and aggravates him.
As he travels from... Read more >
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how that life frustrates and aggravates him.
As he travels from... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Postmodernism For Beginners
Written by Jim Powell
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction... Read more >
Written by Jim Powell
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction... Read more >
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Structuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners
Written by Donald D. Palmer
Illustrated by Donald D. Palmer
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
“In its less dramatic versions,” writes author Dan Palmer, “structuralism is just a method of studying language, society, and the works of artists and novelists. But in its most exuberant form, it is a philosophy, an overall worldview that provides an account of reality and knowledge.” Poststructuralism is a loosely knit... Read more >
Written by Donald D. Palmer
Illustrated by Donald D. Palmer
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
“In its less dramatic versions,” writes author Dan Palmer, “structuralism is just a method of studying language, society, and the works of artists and novelists. But in its most exuberant form, it is a philosophy, an overall worldview that provides an account of reality and knowledge.” Poststructuralism is a loosely knit... Read more >
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.00
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how that life frustrates and aggravates him.
As he travels from... Read more >
Written by Geoff Dyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.00
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how that life frustrates and aggravates him.
As he travels from... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche
Edited by Monroe Beardsley
Format: Trade Paperback, 944 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $19.95
“Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and we... Read more >
Edited by Monroe Beardsley
Format: Trade Paperback, 944 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $19.95
“Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and we... Read more >
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The Art of Travel
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: July 30, 2002
Price: $25.00
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why... Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: July 30, 2002
Price: $25.00
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Hacker Ethic
Written by Pekka Himanen
Prologue by Linus Torvalds
Epilogue by Manuel Castells
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $19.00
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the... Read more >
Written by Pekka Himanen
Prologue by Linus Torvalds
Epilogue by Manuel Castells
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $19.00
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Eye of Spirit
An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad
Written by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $21.95
In this groundbreaking book, Ken Wilber uses his widely acknowledged "spectrum of consciousness" model to completely rewrite our approach to such important fields as psychology, spirituality, anthropology, cultural studies, art and literary theory, ecology, feminism, and planetary transformation. What would each of those fields look like if we wholeheartedly accepted the... Read more >
An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad
Written by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $21.95
In this groundbreaking book, Ken Wilber uses his widely acknowledged "spectrum of consciousness" model to completely rewrite our approach to such important fields as psychology, spirituality, anthropology, cultural studies, art and literary theory, ecology, feminism, and planetary transformation. What would each of those fields look like if we wholeheartedly accepted the... Read more >
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A Theory of Everything
An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
Written by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $15.95
Here is a concise, comprehensive overview of Wilber's revolutionary thought and its application in today's world. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. He then demonstrates how these theories and models can... Read more >
An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
Written by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $15.95
Here is a concise, comprehensive overview of Wilber's revolutionary thought and its application in today's world. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. He then demonstrates how these theories and models can... Read more >
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The Hacker Ethic
Written by Pekka Himanen
Read by Oliver Wyman
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 6, 2001
Price: $12.50
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the... Read more >
Written by Pekka Himanen
Read by Oliver Wyman
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 6, 2001
Price: $12.50
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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What Nietzsche Really Said
Written by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $14.95
What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.
Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebration of strength have struck responsive chords in contemporary culture. More people than ever are reading and discussing... Read more >
Written by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $14.95
What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.
Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebration of strength have struck responsive chords in contemporary culture. More people than ever are reading and discussing... Read more >
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For Common Things
Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
Written by Jedediah Purdy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $13.00
Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which have already garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary... Read more >
Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
Written by Jedediah Purdy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $13.00
Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which have already garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary... Read more >
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