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New York: The Wisdom Library - Philosophical Library, Inc. BOOK: Corners Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Light Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet. SUB-TITLE: A Special Selection. TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC BY: Anthony Rizcallah Ferris. EDITED BY: Martin L. Wolf. CONTENTS: Editor's Preface; The Tempest; Slavery; Satan; The Mermaids; We and You; The Poet; Ashes of the Ages and Eternal Fire; Between Night and Morn. SERIES: volume in a series. SYNOPSIS: The awesome magnetism and bold sweep of his writing emerges in this volume by the immortal Gibran. The ancient wisdom of the mystic East, set forth in the form of a simple yet profound philosophy of life, applies with remarkable timeliness to man's present problems. Though he is mainly preoccupied with momentous subjects,… Read More

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1984. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: In this book (writes the author) I have attempted not only to interest those who are already familiar with the questions with which it deals, but also to provide an introduction to the subject for the general reader. Among the topics which the book covers are: the nature of philosophy, varieties of philosophical analysis, theory of knowledge, status of physical objects, relations between body and mind, character of scientific explanation, theory of probability, elements of logic and the claims of theology. Although it ranges more widely, the book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy (1912). It is written from a similar philosophical standpoint, but it also reflects the important developments in many branches of the… Read More

New York: Philosophical Library BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: This book is about the Stygians - a society of distinguished spirits of the past who can be said to live today in that nether, verdant valley of the universe of which the principal geographical feature is the River Styx - and what they have to say about some of the problems of the contemporary world. The author, using the delightful device of transposing into the present the great minds and voices of history, writes in the hope that the Discussions may suggest some answers for our problems today. Mr. Heilig, a theologian and social scientist, has spent his life in the study and teaching of philosophy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. BOOK: Repaired; Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. EDITION: War Edition (Complete Text - Reduced Size in accordance with paper conservation orders of the War Production Board). SYNOPSIS: A Survey of Moral Want & A Philosophical Discourse Suitable Only for the Strong; A Study of American Types and Archetypes & A Signpost on the Two Thoroughfares of Man: The Via Dolorosa and the Descensus Averno Together with Sundry Preachments, Epithets . . . Moodal Adventures . . . Political Impertinences . . . Allegories . . . Aspirations . . . Visions and Jokes As Well As Certain Homely Hints for the Care of the Human Soul. CONTENTS: Preface; Directions for Reading This Book; I Catastrophe, Christ, and Chemistry; II Subjective Feudalism; III A Footnote to Chapter II; IV A Psychology Lesson, a Study, and a Sermon; V A Specimen American Myth; VI A Specimen American… Read More

San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1980. Revised Students' Edition. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; PART I INSIGHT AS ACTIVITY I. Elements 1. A Dramatic Instance 2. Definition 3. Higher Viewpoints 4. Inverse Insight 5. The Empirical Residue II. Heuristic Structures of Empirical Method 1. Mathematical and Scientific Insights Compared 2. Classical Heuristic Structures 3. Concrete Inferences from Classical Laws 4. Statistical Heuristic Structures 5. Survey III. The Canons of Empirical Method 1. The Canon of Selection 2. The Canon of Operations 3. The Canon of Relevance 4. The Canon of Parsimony 5. The Canon of Complete Explanation 6. The Canon of Statistical Residues IV. The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations 1. Complementarity in the Knowing 2. Complementarity in the Known 3. Clarification by Contrast 4. Conclusion V. Space and Time 1. The… Read More

London: Arkana - the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 1991. Remainder Mark; Rear Cover Pulled From Sticker Removal; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER: The cover shows a photograph of P. D. Ouspensky reproduced by courtesy of Mrs Nagro. CONTENTS: Introduction by Fairfax Hall; Acknowledgments; Letter I; Letter I; Letter III; Letter IV; Letter V; Epilogue from In Denkin's Russia by C. E. Bechhofer. SYNOPSIS: Although Ouspensky is most famous for works of philosophy and mysticism, he was also a supremely perceptive observer. Written in conditions of great hardship just after the Russian Revolution, these letters offer a classic eyewitness account of those turbulent times and a deeply prophetic understanding of the roots of modern Russia. Beneath the day-to-day struggle for existence, Ouspensky reveals how the forces unleashed by the Bolsheviks were overwhelming his country and posed immense dangers to the rest… Read More

Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: AB35. DESIGNED BY: Andor Braun. COVER DESIGN BY: H. Lawrence Hoffman. CONTENTS: Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; 1 No More Secondhand God; 2 Machine Tools; 3 The Historical Attempt by Man to Convert His Evolution from a Subjective to an Objective Process; 4 Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage; 5 The Fuller Research Foundation, 1946-51; 6 A Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science; 7 Introduction to Omnidirectional Halo; 8 Omnidirectional Halo. SYNOPSIS: Collected prose and prose-poem essays written by Mr. Fuller from 1940 to 1962. Contains additions to Mr. Fuller's Dymaxion principles.. First Thus 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1965. Previous Dealer Markings; Previous Owner Markings (Including Highlighting); Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Front, Rear Covers, Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: Philosophers of science have given considerable attention to the logic of completed scientific systems; Professor Hanson turns to an equally important but comparatively neglected subject, the philosophical aspects of research and discovery. He shows that there is a logical pattern in finding theories as much as in using established theories to make deductions and predictions, and he sets out the features of this pattern with the help of striking examples in the history of science.. First Thus 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of California Press, 1985. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction: Thinking about the Universe; PART ONE: SCIENTIFIC MYTHOLOGY (1951-1957) Scientific Theories and Scientific Myths; The Limits of Cosmology Ethics and Cosmic Evolution; Science and Our View of the World; Conclusions; PART TWO: A CONSIDERATION OF COSMOLOGISTS (1964-1980); Arthur Koestler I (1964); Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1965); Arthur Koestler II (1968); Jacques Monod (1971); Francois Jacob (1974); Carl Sagan (1977); Arthur Koestler III (1979); Gregory Bateson (1980); PART THREE: THE FUTURE OF COSMOLOGY: POSTMODERN SCIENCE AND NATURAL RELIGION (1981); All Cohaerence Gone; Death of the Spectator; The Fire and the Rose; Index.. First Thus 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Collier Books - The Macmillan Company, 1971. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Preface; This Is IT; Instinct, Intelligence, and Anxiety; Zen and the Problem of Control; Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen; Spirituality and Sensuality; The New Alchemy; Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: "The immediate now, whatever its nature, is the goal and fulfillment of all living." Alan Watts, a leading figure in the consciousness-expansion movement currently sweeping the country, here describes those extraordinary moments of insight, or "spiritual experience," in which men feel that the ordinary world of here and now is IT - the Godhead, the end and meaning of life, ultimate reality. This Is It takes its title from an essay on the experience of "cosmic consciousness," including the author's account of his own ventures into this inward realm. Appearing also are essays on… Read More