Search Results: Philosophy from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

This is an AEP Unit Book adapted from the Harvard Social Studies Project.From back cover: "Conflict between the Union and the Confederacy took a staggering toll, and dramatized divisions in America's national life that are still not fully closed. This unit book explores the causes of the Civil War. Cases show the moral and political extremes adopted by slaveholders and Abolitionists, Unionists and secessionists, and draft objectors. Modern analogy cases further develop questions of uniform national policy or pluralism, the meanings of separatism and secession, and the limits of dissent and deliberate violation of laws that some groups call unjust.Poor condition. This is a stapled booklet with much rubbing and edge/corner wear. There is also age tanning, stains, and pink highlighter. Please see photos. 63 pages including Bibliography.

From back: "The dialogues of Plato offer a philosophy that has guided man through the ages. In his magnificent writings Plato examines our virtues and vices, our problems and questions. With remarkable literary grace, he shows us how man can understand his place in the world and live an intelligent and happy life."Cover has discoloration and rubbing, back cover has small tear. There is page edge and corner wear. There is writing on inside front cover and drawing on back endpaper. No marks noted in text on inside pages. Page edges are a faded red color.

From back cover: "Compactly made, expertly edited title in the humanities." Tight pages. Age tanning and spots on page edges and some pages, stamps on first inside page, front cover is bumped, back cover is stained. Some edge and corner wear.

From the back cover: "What did 'freedom of the press' really mean to the framers of the First Amendment and their contemporaries?
This book "...answers that question." "Mr Levy argues that the First Amendment was not designed to be the bulwark of a free press as many thought, nor had the amendment's framers intended to overturn the common law of seditious libel that was the principal means of stifling political dissent."
Quote by New York Times Book Review - "A wonderful combination of judiciousness and vigor.

Near Fine condition. Light bumping to covers. Very, very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight - like new book tight.

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383 pages including Index.

From back cover: "In Fighting Back! A Manual for Freethinkers, leading secular humanists, agnostics, atheists, rationalists, and freethinkers describe how they deal with the challenges of living in a society where most people simply assume that one is religious."Good condition. Cover has some soiling and a partial crease at the bottom that extends throughout the book - as if someone held it there with a strong thumb. Text is clean and binding is tight. A good reading copy.101 pages including Contributors section.

From back DJ: "...it's become pretty clear that the pace of change in a global economy demands not only innovation, but creativity. We must become as good at changing our perceptions as we have become at changing reality." "...markets that are forcing them [corporations] not only to improve but transform themselves." "...entertains and challenges its readers at the same time with an array of examples drawn from philosophy, mathematics, technology, and linguistics."Fine condition. New book, clean and tight. Dust jacket has slight rubbing/bumping, and very minimal edge/corner wear. Please see photos.172 pages including Index.

"Mr. Ross has successfully sought to modernize and mainstream the teaching methods used to transmit the ancient mind-body disciplines to contemporary students without losing the essence of those arts."Very Good condition. Light rubbing to front cover and almost a soft crease near top. Small, light stain on closed book page edges. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Spine not cracked. Clean and tight. Please use photos as part of the description.147 pages including Bibliography.

From title page: "More than 100 forays, advances, skirmishes, ambushes, victories, cop-outs, standoffs and outflankings in the funny business of living."Fair condition. Good reading copy. Text is free of marks. Cover and spine show wear. Inside cover has bookplate: Robert Uhlmann Medical Library Donor Kansas City Star. Front endpaper has glue residue, stamp, and black marker. Back endpapers have had something removed and left residue. page edges have some black marks, possibly from a stamp on uneven page edges. Top of page edges is black. 258 pages including Index.

From Back Cover: "We all long to experience a sense of inner wholeness and guidance, to live a life of meaning, purpose, and grace. But how can we live up to this ideal? In this luminous, inspiring book, Wayne Muller shows how - by exploring these four simple questions - we can grow beyond our confusions and limitations and find the wise and ready spiritual guide that is alive in all of us."
Very Good condition. Covers have a little bit of bumping and a little bit of edge wear including a couple o s soft corner creases. Spine is not creased. Text is clean and binding is tight.
288 pages including "Sources and Permissions"

From back cover: "The Joy of Mathematics is designed to help the reader become aware of the inseparable relationship of mathematics and the world by presenting glimpses and images of mathematics in the many facets of our lives." - Science News." Other quotes mentioned it as "easily readable by all". Please see photo of Contents page - lots of interesting topics.Condition: Very Good. Cover has very slight bumping and slight edge/corner wear. Closed pages have very slight spotting. Otherwise clean and tight. 237 pages including Index.

From back cover: "An enlightened spiritual master's description of true sexual liberation."Pages are clean and tight - no marks inside; however page edges are stained/discolored. Cover is worn with bends, rubbing, bumping, edge and corner wear.

From back cover: "Before you know it, your present organization may become obsolete, unless it is being recreated for the future. Managing your present organization while you're creating a world-class future - that's your mission..."Book - Near Fine condition. Book has slight lean. Clean. Tight. No wear. Like new. Includes Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership cards. Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Wrinkle at top front near spine. Otherwise, clean and no wear.Please see photos.227 pages including index.

From back cover: "In the book the author...makes an important contribution to our understanding of man's place in the natural world. No man, he shows, is fit to control nature unless he feels himself to be a part of it, fully aware that seemingly individual things, including himself, are in fact inseparably related to events. Hostility to nature is characteristic of our culture, and is the root of our personal anxiety and loneliness, our fear of feeling, and our reluctance to love. Mr. Watts discusses the origins of this alienation from nature in Christianity and Western thought, contrasted with the Chinese philosophy of the Tao and its vision of nature as an organic whole in which man is fully included and feels at home."Good condition. Cover has some bumping and the spine is creased. Slight edge/corner wear. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Pages are tanned, but free of marks. Pages open to middle, but otherwise tight. A good reading copy.Please use photos as part of the description.209… Read More

Per front dust jacket flap: "In these essays, Ayn Rand reveals the hidden philosophic premises at work in the human soul. Her powerful mind ranges to every corner of the culture; her brilliant pen writes with the dispassionate clarity and passionate eloquence that are her literary trademarks."Book - Fair condition. Green paper covered boards w gold gilt on spine. Very little edge/corner wear. Text is clean, but the binding has separated from the cover spine into two blocks of pages: from beginning through page 174 and page 175 to end. The pages are not loose, they are in blocks. A good reading copy.Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Lots of edge and corner wear with chips, tears, and creases, rubbing, bumping, and soiling.Please use photos as part of the description.276 pages including Index.

Quote from back DJ cover: "Brian Burrell's lucid and cheerful writing style makes his subject accessible, understandable, and fun. He led me smoothly through the history of Neuroscience. I learned painlessly about neurophysiology and neuroanatomy. I came away impressed by Burrell's research and scholarship and in awe of his ability to make these heady topics so readable and compelling." - Bob McCoy, founder, the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, and author of Quack!
Black & white photo section in middle of book. Please see photo of "Contents" page for chapter information.
Good+ condition. Exlib. Dust jacket in protective cover. Some rubbing to cover. Library sticker on spine and marks/stamps inside. Text is clean and binding is tight.
356 pages including Index.

Reveries of a Bachelor contains a series of essays, on the themes of boyhood, life, and dreams. By American author Donald Grant Mitchell pseudonym IK. Marvel. Preface by the author is dated New York, November 1850
Includes newspaper clipping with a photo of the author and a story about his recovery from a dangerous illness. Good condition for a book of its age. The cover has a strip of embossed flowers and the title which was originally gold gilt, but not too much of that is left. There is some edge and corner wear and some spotting. The spine is soiled or has darkened. There is a light pencil note on the front end paper. The top closed book page edges are darker with some soiling/spotting. The inside pages are clean with probably light tanning. The binding is tight for the most part. The area where the clipping was stored has been slightly darkened by the clipping. Please use photos as part of the description.282 pages.

From the back cover: "Schopenhauer as Educator was written in Basel in 1847 and published as the third of the Thoughts out of Season. Nietzsche himself said of this essay in Ecce homo: 'In Schopenhauer as Educator...my most intimate history is told, my becoming. Above all, my promise.' In a letter to Georg M. Brandes, Danish literary critic and historian, he wrote that the essay on Schopenhauer presents, 'so it seems to me now, more of myself than a real psychology' of the master."Good condition. Cover has some soiling, creases at spine, and price type stickers. Pages are age tanned and edges have darkened with some spotting/staining. Text is clean and binding is tight. 115 pages.

"Sesame and Lilies" is a collection of three essays, concerned with education and ideal conduct. One essay also covers the role of women, their rights, duties in education, and compassion. John Ruskin was an art critic in Victorian England and an influential figure in the art world.This book includes: Preface, Preface to First Edition, Of Kings' Treasuries, Of Queens' Gardens, and The Mystery of Life and its Arts.Fair condition. Maroon cloth cover. Spine has gilt title, but both cloth and gilt have faded. Both front and back covers have some wear and stains.There are some stains to closed book page edges. Previous owner's name on front end paper, plus a red round sticker. The pages are free of marks, but the paper is very tanned. A couple of pages have come loose from the binding and some of the pages have corner chips. Please see photos.244 pages.

Seven critical essays, each on a contemporary novelist, disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence.Dust jacket in Brodart cover - very good except for library label on spine.Book has library stamps on title page, back endpapers, and page edges. Residual on back endpaper from where the library pocket was removed. Underlining and margin comments in the section on "From Here to Eternity, Heller's Catch 22", pages 100-117 (appear to be pencil). 175 pages.

From front DJ flap: "It has long been Sloane's opinion that the American of today is not just the early American grown older, but a different person entirely. The Spirits of '76 deals with this belief, and Sloane lists ten of the original spirits of early America, comparing them with the changed spirits of today."
Book - Very Good- condition. White paper over boards with light blue text on spine. Edges have very little wear, but there is light discoloration at both top and bottom, possibly from the glue used. There is also light discoloration on the red end pages at the spine. The front end page also has previous owner's name etc. in ink. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Illustrated.
Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Images are bright but have some rubbing. Edges have chipping, tearing and creasing.
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