Philosophy:

The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95

One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.

With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell... Read more >

The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95

One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.

With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell... Read more >

America the Philosophical

Written by Carlin Romano

Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.00

This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate.
 
With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that the United States...

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The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton

Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95

Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved  intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >

The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95

Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved  intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >

The Consolations of Philosophy

Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $11.99

From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.

Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of all... Read more >

The Empiricists
Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religio
Written by John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume

Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $12.99

This volume includes the major works of the British Empiricists, philosophers who sought to derive all knowledge from experience. All essays are complete except that of Locke, which Professor Richard Taylor of Brown University has skillfully abridged. Read more >

The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Written by Wes Nisker

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2012
Price: $9.99

Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover the madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers in the abridged, better-than-ever version of our best-selling cult classic. THE ESSENTIAL CRAZY WISDOM delivers the most significant, most lunatic, and most compelling insights of the ages. Scoop... Read more >

Man's Place in Nature

Written by Thomas H. Huxley
Series edited by Stephen Jay Gould

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $11.99

Thomas H. Huxley was one of the first supporters of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, and he did more than any other writer to advance its acceptance among scientists and nonscientists alike. His most famous book, Man’s Place in Nature, published only five years after Darwin’s The Origin... Read more >

America the Philosophical

Written by Carlin Romano

Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $13.99

   A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.
   With verve and keen intelligence... Read more >

America the Philosophical

Written by Carlin Romano

Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $35.00

   A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.
   With verve and keen intelligence... Read more >

The Order of Things
An Archaeology of Human Sciences
Written by Michel Foucault

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $12.99

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How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $16.95

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance... Read more >

Who Am I?
And If So, How Many?
Written by Richard David Precht
Translated by Shelley Frisch

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $16.00

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

TRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
 
What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction book” (Tagesanzeiger Zürich), has traveled the globe searching for answers—and his odyssey has become one of the most... Read more >

Who Am I?
And If So, How Many?
Written by Richard David Precht
Translated by Shelley Frisch

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $13.99

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

TRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
 
What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction book” (Tagesanzeiger Zürich), has traveled the globe searching for answers—and his odyssey has become one of the most... Read more >

The Rationalists
Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics
Written by Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza and Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2011
Price: $12.99

Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was  philosophy's first step into the modern era. This  volume contains the essential statements of  Rationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, who  began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz,  who gave it its last serious expression.


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The Voyage of the Beagle
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World
Written by Charles Darwin
Introduction by Steve Jones

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 3, 2010
Price: $11.99

In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting... Read more >

How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $25.00

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do... Read more >

How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.95

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you... Read more >

A Wealth of Insights
Humanist Thought Since the Enlightenment
Written by Bill Cooke

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2009
Price: $29.99

Humanism is a relatively young word, coined only in 1808, and yet it is the most transcultural mode of thought ever conceived. Centered on the plight of all humans in the here and now and committed to reason, free thought, and producing a better, more democratic world, humanism encompasses positive and... Read more >

The Age of American Unreason

Written by Susan Jacoby

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $16.95

A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces-usually treated as separate entities-that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education... Read more >

The Origin of Species

Written by Charles Darwin

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $5.99

Introduction by Edward J. Larson
 
Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out its first printing on the very day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England and, as the... Read more >

Nietzsche and the English
The Influence of British and American Thinking on His Philosophy
Written by Thomas H. Brobjer

Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $39.99

Friedrich Nietzsche—one of the most read and discussed philosophers of all time—is frequently regarded as a quintessentially German philosopher, yet one who had strong anti-German tendencies and late in his development turned increasingly pro-French. However, his relation to British-American thinking and culture has been largely ignored, although its focus on progress... Read more >

The Basics of Western Philosophy

Written by Eugene Kelly

Format: Trade Paperback, 295 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $28.99

This outstanding introductory work offers students and the general reader a concise, accessible overview of the nature, problems, and history of Western philosophy. The book is divided into two parts. Part I examines the process of philosophical discourse, including discussions of some of its greatest practitioners, elementary techniques of logical analysis... Read more >

The Scientists
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Written by John Gribbin
Illustrated by Adam Hook

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $17.95

A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat

In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the... Read more >