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| The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
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Peter Trachtenberg.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316158794. Daedalus Item Code: 13766 |
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| What does it mean to suffer? What enables some people to emerge from tragedy while others are spiritually crushed by it? And why do so many Americans think of suffering as something that should ... (Read More)
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| The Elements of Natural Philosophy
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William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) & Peter Guthrie Tait.
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| Publisher: Prometheus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781573929844. Daedalus Item Code: 13062 |
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| In this 1873 abridgement of their Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Peter Tait and William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, intended their work to be accessible to students with a basic knowledge of ... (Read More)
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| Introducing Rousseau
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Dave Robinson & Oscar Zarate.
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| Publisher: Icon. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781840467895. Daedalus Item Code: 22070 |
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| A musician, poet, novelist, and botanist, but above all a philosopher who firmly denied being one, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first to ask: What is the value of civilization? His answer—that ... (Read More)
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| Machiavelli: A Biography
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Miles J. Unger.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781416556305. Daedalus Item Code: 29406 |
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| The name of Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with the cynical and selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was a humane and perceptive writer whose controversial ... (Read More)
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| The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
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Robert Zaretsky & John T. Scott.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300121933. Daedalus Item Code: 12777 |
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| The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the 18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, reverberated on both sides of the English Channel. As the ... (Read More)
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| Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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Alain de Botton.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307476821. Daedalus Item Code: 29383 |
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| What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? This provocative book from the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work argues that we ... (Read More)
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| Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465018475. Daedalus Item Code: 38543 |
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| Analogy is the essential component of all thinking—this is the simple but unorthodox premise that Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander defend in this brilliant, lucid, and detailed exploration of ... (Read More)
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| Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
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Jim Holt.
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| Publisher: Liveright. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780871403599. Daedalus Item Code: 38561 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2012) Whether framed philosophically ("Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?") or more colloquially ("But, Mommy, ... (Read More)
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