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Halifax: The Early Modern Studies Department / University of King's College, 2003. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Editor. First Edition.. Small octavo. Students from King's College and Dartmouth University provide a collection of student essays that are "explorations, proposals, interpretations, and diatribes about the historical events, literature, philosophy, and art, that helped shape Western Society." Contributors include the editors, Samuel Austin, Jesse Blackwood, Naomi Blackwood, John Blanchard, Sarah Brodbar-Nemzer, Robyn Brown, James Bryson, Jeremy Dickstein, Micheal Fountain, Ross Gower, Christopher Hobrecker, Katherine E. Ireland, Elizabeth Smith, Christina Van Herk, and Katie Woodside. This copy signed by editors Samson and Reid, on title page. 145 pages, including a select chronology of events. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Bucuresti (Bucharest): Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1984. Book. Good. Hardcover. Small octavo. Romanian-language edition of the philosopher's 'Les passions de l'ame' ('Passions of the Soul). Grey cloth, 239 pages (including index/glossary), illustrated. Moderate general wear, in dust jacket w/impressions, general wear. Uncommon..

London: S. Birt, D. Browne, C. Hitch, J. Hodges, J. Oswald, J. Shuckburgh, A. Millar, J. Beecroft, J. Ward, M. Cooper, and the executors of H. Pemberton, 1748. Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. Small octavo. (MDCCXLVIII). Volume I only (of IV) of the 13th edition of Locke's classic work dealing with the basis of human knowledge/understanding. Full leather, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, pp: (v), frontispiece, (32) 372. Bumped/worn/scraped spine ends/corners/edges, worn/moderately soiled covers, tanned/soiled edges, first end paper excised, pencil notations on rear pastedown, some internal foxing/soil, light moisture damage, previous owner's signature to verso of title page. Internally tight. Uncommon..

New York : Dodge Publishing Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Contains the title essay, and two others: "Prudence" and "Heroism." Black cloth w/green/lilac/gilt floral decoration to front cover, gilt floral decoration/lettering to spine, 90 pages, frontispiece. Moderately worn corners/spine ends. A nice little book uncommon in this edition..

Winchester & Washington: Changemakers Books / Change Makers, 2017. Book. Very Good to Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "--a masterpiece, a must-read book, not only for futurists, psychologists, social scientists, scholars, and academics of every type showing them how to improve their thinking about future consciousness, but also for ordinary people to improve the quality of their future daily lives." Inscription reads: "To Paul,/Hope you enjoy/the book./Tom Lombardo/8/20/2018". 805 pages, including references, + four pages advertising other Changemakers Books. Light corner wear, tiny soil mark to rear end paper. Internally tight and clean..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 2nd edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ingram summarizes the themes of Jurgen Habermas' 'Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns,' "placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas." 263 pages, including index. Moderate soil to top edge, moderate general wear..

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A study of the work of the 12th-century philosopher Moses Maimonides. "Fox offers a general approach to reading Maimonides' philosophy and more specific reconsiderations of his ethical, metaphysical, and religious thought." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 356 pages (including index). Gently bumped corners/spine ends, tiny ink mark to top edge in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, thin scratch to bottom right corner of front panel..

Santa Cruz: Reference and Research Services, 1987. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Intended "to provide access to the essays and books of Jacques Lacan that have been translated into the English language," with critical literature about his work also presented. Divided into four sections, the first contains Lacan's books in English, with a list of reviews and essays specific to the work; the second section contains a list of essays reprinted in English, with sources; the third section lists English books about Lacan and his material; and the fourth section contains "a selection of the general critical literature in English about Lacan's work." Typescript, 53 pages. A 1/8" tear to top edge of back cover, staple holes to top left corner of back cover, light general wear. Scarce..

Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "This anthology samples for interested professionals the more significant scholarly forays into what has come to be known as the near-death experience." Contributors include the editors, Carl B.Becker, Daniel B. Carr, Kimberly Clark, John C. Gibbs, Michael Grosso, Anthony Lee, Raymond A. Moody Jr., Russell Noyes Jr., Annalee R. Oakes, Kenneth Ring, Ernst A. Rodin, Michael Sabom (who also contributes the foreword), Carl Sagan, Ronald K. Siegel, and Donald J. Slymen. Blue cloth w/silver lettering to front cover/spine, 289 pages. A nice copy in dust jacket w/rubbing, thin impressions/scratches, light chipping to corners/spine ends. Uncommon in decent condition and boasting a dust jacket..

Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st PUM edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the English edition (published as "On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge") by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon. Based on a series of dialogues originally published in a Japanese literary magazine in 1998. Cream cloth w/olive cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 294 pages, illustrated. A lovely copy. .

New York : Capricorn Books, 1961. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This one "presents one of the world's greatest minds treating one of history's most complex problems: the question of the nature and extent of the guilt of a great modern nation for some of the world's greatest crimes." 123 pages + two-page list of other Capricorn titles. Rubbing, previous owner's name to inside front cover, four titles circled on two-page list at rear, tanning. Internally tight and clean..

Mentor ME2168 Book. Very Good. Paperback. 18th Mentor edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The classic work presenting the wisdom of "the most famous of all the wise men of ancient China." 128 pages (including a list of Chinese dynastic successions, bibliography, and index of subjects). Impressions, scratches. Internally tight and clean..

Ottawa: The Sumeru Press, 2019. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The sixth book on Zen by a former university professor who, with this one, has written "a book that traverses the evolution of Zen Buddhism from the historical Buddha to the present." Foreword by Genjo Marinello Roshi (who is quoted, above), and an afterword by Dosho Port Roshi. 463 pages (including acknowledgments, bibliography, glossary, and brief author biography). Inscription reads, "To Kelly/with gassho--/Rick" followed by his signature. A very nice copy w/a hint of surface wear..

London: Folio Society, 2010. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st thus.. Introductory essay by Frances Wood. There is apparently some debate about whether Lao Tzu ever existed, but from what little I have read that is attributed to him, if he didn't, he should have. Pp: xxiii, 235, eight plates, two doubled folded plates, illustrated. A hint of a suggestion of a whisper of wear to corners/spine ends, in scuffed, moderately soiled slipcase. All in all a fairly nice copy of this Folio Society edition of a classic..

Waltham: The Ehling Company, 1975. Journal. About Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Small quarto. The first issue of "a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the practical and theoretical discussion of teaching and learning philosophy. Since 1975 it has provided a unique forum for the exchange of ideas about the challenges faced by philosophers in the classroom. It publishes articles and case studies on theoretical issues, classroom strategies, experimental courses, student counseling, and teaching and learning assessment. It also publishes reviews and review articles on new books, instructional media, and online resources." (description from the Philosophy Documentation Center). Articles by William K. Goosens, William B. Griffith, Godfrey Vesey, Robinson A. Grover, Ronald Reed, Craig Channel, P. Allan Carlsson, Spencer Schein, B.C. Postow, and Anthony Flew, with book reviews by numerous reviewers, and film reviews by Michael Scriven and Harvey Mullane (don't worry -- no reviews of Jaws or The Rocky… Read More