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Choosing Civility
The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct
P. M. Forni
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The Civility Solution
What to Do When People Are Rude
P. M. Forni
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"Though his new book deals with many kinds of incivility, Dr. Forni has devoted a sizeable chunk of it to workplace and high-tech rudeness . . . his approach to incivility is rooted in his academic career researching and teaching Italian literature. Some fundamentals of good behavior, he says, go back hundreds of years."—
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Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault
Picador
"The English translation of
Security, Territory and Population
is a major event not only for Anglophone readers of Foucault’s work, but for all those concerned with understanding our present social and political condition. These lectures show that the trenchant analysis of biopower, 'power over life,' which Foucault had begun in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and which he pursues here in terms of technologies of security, led him to a decisively deeper and more radical formulation of his guiding problematic—what he called 'the government of the self and others'—the issue that would serve as the basis for all his subsequent work.
Security, Territory and Population
might thus properly be called the ‘missing link’ that reveals the underlying unity of Foucault’s later thought . . . Burchell’s translation is meticulous, supple, and attentive to the nuances of Foucault’s fluid lecture style. We all stand in his debt."—
Kevin Thompson, Book Review Editor,
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"Society Must Be Defended"
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by David Macey; Edited by Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the...
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Abnormal
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"The importance of these lectures is that they are directly connected with two of Foucault's greatest books,
Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
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Abnormal
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Charles Mudede,
The Stranger
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The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Lectures at the Collège de France 1981--1982
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"Is the 'self' capable of reaching the truth when only equipped with knowledge? Or can it attain the truth without a 'long labor of ascesis?' Why is the concept of the 'care of the self' neglected by Western thought despite its vital role in constructing the concept of 'know yourself?' These ethical questions and more are elegantly discussed in Foucault's third volume of lectures from the Collège de France."—
Sadiq Alkoriji, Tomball Library,
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What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Reverence for Life Reaffirmed by Responses from Around the World
Compiled and Edited by Frederick Franck, Richard Connolly and Janis Roze
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In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors--social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders--reflect with poignant...
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The Human Touch
Our Part in the Creation of a Universe
Michael Frayn
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"Frayn . . . has a healthy respect for the power of external reality to constrain our world-making. Indeed, what makes
The Human Touch
so rewarding is the subtlety and humor with which he examines 'the great mutual balancing act.' There may be something godlike in the way we 'bring into their various forms of existence all the receding ontological planes of the world we inhabit,' but we are also at the mercy of that world's whims. A brick to the head and the whole show comes to an end."—
Jim Holt,
The New York Times
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Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm
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If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of...
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Man for Himself
An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
Erich Fromm
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In Man for Himself, Erich Fromm examines the confusion of modern women and men who, because they lack faith in any principle by which life ought to be guided,...
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Our Posthuman Future
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
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"In this groundbreaking inquiry, Fukuyama warns that advances in drugs and genetic engineering will allow society to control human behavior and manipulate physical characteristics—and this power could alter our understanding of what it means to be human . . . In a contentious and fast-moving policy area, Fukuyama provides a remarkably sensible and human vision of what is at stake and what needs to be done."—
Foreign Affairs
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Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller; Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Adjuvant
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R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect,...
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder; Translated by Paulette Møller
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"First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel—something like a modern-day version of
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When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish
And Other Speculations About This and That
Martin Gardner
Hill and Wang
"If you're already addicted to Martin Gardner's plain prose, gentle, reasonable voice, exhaustive research and relentless logic, you will want to add this book to your collection . . . While [he] has always called himself 'strictly a journalist,' he should really be honored as one of this country's greatest cultural treasures."—
Michael Dirda,
The Washington Post
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go
How to Live, Work, and Play in the City
Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti
Faber and Faber, Inc.
Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is...
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Straw Dogs
Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
John Gray
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"This powerful and brilliant book is an essential guide to the new Millennium.
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challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions."—
J.G. Ballard
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Black Mass
Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
John Gray
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"'Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion,' Gray, a British philosopher, insists in this outspoken attack on utopianism and the ‘faith-based violence’ it has inspired. History, Gray writes, offers no new dawns or sharp breaks, and, from the French Revolution to the war on terror, he is as critical of the humanist belief in progress as of the ‘belligerent optimism’ of neoconservatives. Sketching the roots of utopianism, he emphasizes the similarities between seemingly disparate movements: radical Islam, he suggests, might best be thought of as ‘Islamo-Jacobinism.’ Taking the Iraq war as an object lesson, he argues for an acknowledgment that the ‘local pieties of Atlantic democracy’ are not the only way to govern. Gray’s writing has a bracing clarity."—
The New Yorker
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The Immortalization Commission
Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
John Gray
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A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title At the heart of human experience lies an obsession with the nature of death. Religion, for most of history,...
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The Good Book
A Humanist Bible
A. C. Grayling
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"Grayling has risen to controversial eminence as a public intellectual. This book . . . continues his humanist explorations with his creation of an entire scripture for atheists and agnostics. Grayling's "Genesis" has Isaac Newton's apple, rather than Eve's; the wars of Persia against Greece take the place of the rise of Davidic Israel; the lives of Lycurgus, Pericles, and Cicero stand for the wanderings of Jesus's disciples."—
The Library Journal
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American Transcendentalism
A History
Philip F. Gura
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"Philip Gura has given us the most comprehensive and concise overview of Transcendentalism to appear in fifty years. By carefully re-historicizing the movement, in all its diversity, he provides the term 'Transcendentalistism' with much needed definition. An important book on a subject indispensable for study of the American mind."—
John McWilliams, Professor, Middlebury College
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Nonfiction
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Just War
The Just War Tradition: Ethics in Modern Warfare
Charles Guthrie; Michael Quinlan
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An important, timely book on the morality of armed conflicts in the twenty-first century. Every society and every period of history has had to face the...
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The Wisdom of Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel; Translated by Ruth M. Goodhill
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"Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right questions...Awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise,...
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Maimonides
A Biography
Abraham Joshua Heschel; Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
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Heschel's classic work on Maimonides, originally published in Berlin during the thirties, in one of the few scholarly biographies available of the great...
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Narcissus and Goldmund
A Novel
Hermann Hesse; Translated by Ursule Molinaro
Picador
Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister...
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