Search Results: Philosophy from Ray Boas, Bookseller

New York: Routledge, 1997. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0415916100 258pp.

New York: A Grosset/Putnam Book, 1995. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ill. by Ted Dewan. ISBN 0399140883 James Burke, a leading expert on the interaction of technology and society, and Robert Ornstein, a pioneer in charting the evolution of consciousness, show how the interaction between innovation and the brain has continually reshaped the world and, more important, the way we think. 349pp.

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1863. HC. good++, 3/4 leather w/raised bands, marbled boards (hardcover). Nice clean, tight and bright copy. Light edgewear to the leather. 586pp.

New York: Continuum, 1994. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0826406467 Examines the complex relationship between will and desire--the building blocks of the human psyche. 208pp.

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. PB. good, wraps (softcover) faded covers. 64pp.

Boston, MA: H. H. Carter & Karrick, Pub, 1887. HC. good, brown cloth (hardcover) small stain/wear top of spine. From the preface: "The easrnest advocacy and the practical exemplification of the power of mental healing, and their rapid diffusion, rank among the most striking phenomena of our times." 248pp.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0394485076 Why do men continue to kill other men in organized warfare? In this brilliant sequel to his Psychology of Power, R. V. Sampson attempts to answer that question. 205pp.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0805029826 The author reveals that the decoupling of physical and cultural evolution some ten thousand years ago offers the strongest clue to what to expect in the future. 190pp.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1973. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0805919287 Why are we here? Whencecome we and whither we go? These and other questions are probed, contemplated, and poetically expressed in this eclectic work that draws from the wisdom of Buddha and Confucius, of William Blake and Wordsworth, as well as original essays on such topics as the nature of genius, in which the author's lucid style brings to light new concepts, offering much food for thought. 74pp.

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1963. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). Although scholars have linked the eighteenth-century philosophe and the twentieth-century bad boy (and Nobel Prize winner), this is the first sustained study of their affinities. 251pp.

Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1958. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). What is the modern mind? The essays in this volume--originally delivered as the Second Series of the Martin G. Brumbaugh Lectures in Education at the University of Pennsylvania--offer illuminating answers to this question by a biologist, an anthropologist, a philosopher, and a literary historian, each of whom approaches the question in light of his own study and experience. 93pp.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1900. HC. good+, cream cloth, teg, gilt stampings (hardcover). B&W illustrations. First publsihed in 1587, newly written in 1625. Francis Bacon--Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, but not Lord Bacon, as he is sometimes erroneously styled, left us this literary legacy of wonderful essays. Nice clean and tight copy. 291pp.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1961. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). Analyzes and comments in some detail upon the ethical writings of Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Butler, Hume, Adam Smith, Bentham and Kant. 284pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0195072014 261pp.

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1926. PB. good, wraps (softcover) faded covers. 64pp.

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1972. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 081431466X In perhaps the first book to apply a philosophy of history to actual cases, William Todd chooses a dozen diverse samples of individual works, analyzes each in detail, and notes certain general features of historical writing. Evaluating the necessity for counterfactual ("what would have happened if") and evaluative judgments, Todd suggests a way in which historians might continue to deal with traditional problems, but also arrive at evaluations in a more systematic way. 250pp.

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1926. PB. good, wraps (softcover) faded covers. 64pp.

Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1959. HC. good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). 351pp.

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1926. PB. good, wraps (softcover) faded covers. 64pp.

Rockport, MA: Element, 1997. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 1852308656 This book puts the science/religion debate in perspective and will be of great interest to anyone who feels constrained by the view of the world that Western science permits. 352pp.