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Catholic Colonization on the Western Frontier


Shannon, James P.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 302 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JAMES P. SHANNON TO CATHERINE O'MEARA ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top rear edge. Some brief pencil notes in margins.

Record # 610316


Price: $38.00 

 

Closing of the Western Mind, The: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason


Freeman, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil throughout with spot on rear pages and dust jacket rear flap. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2233790


Price: $19.00 

 

Collected Works of Ken Wilber- 8 Volume Set


Wilber, Ken

Hardcover. Boston, Shambhala, 1st Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover set of 8 volumes. Each with grey cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Illustrations including diagrams, charts, tables, photographs in b/w . Dust jacket to accompany each volume, light edgewear to a couple jackets. Vol. 1, 658 pages - Selected Essays, Spectrum of Consciousness, No Boundary. Vol. 2, 708 pages - Atman Project, Up From Eden. Vol 3, 466 pages - Sociable God, Eye to Eye. Vol 4, 741 pages - Selected Essays including new works published here for the first time. Vol 5, 506 pages - Grace & Grit. Vol 6, 853 pages - Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. Vol 7, 818 pages - Brief History, Eye of Spirit. Vol 8, 649 pages - Sense & Soul, One Taste. Complete, clean & unmarked. A nice set.

Record # 750396


Price: $438.00 

 

Japanese Tradition and Western Law - Emperor, State, and Law in the Thought of Hozumi Yatsuka


Minear, Richard H.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket shows standard wear with light fading. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608071


Price: $40.00 

Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western ThoughtHampsey, John C.
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Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western Thought


Hampsey, John C.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very slight wear to jacket, small crease front jacket alongside spine, old price sticker to back of jacket. Otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230995


Price: $25.00 

 

Peloponnesian War, The


Kagan, Donald

Softcover. New York, NY, Viking, Uncorrected Proof, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 498 pages. Softcover, advance uncorrected proof with illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670044


Price: $13.00 

 

Studies in Richard Hooker: Essays Preliminary to an Edition of His Works


Hill (Ed.), W. Speed

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Case Western Reserve University , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages, gray cloth covers with gilt lettering and design. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean, very good overall.

Record # 407026


Price: $44.00 

 

Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition - Studies in Western Esotericism


Faivre, Antoine

Softcover. Albany, State University of New York Press, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Softcover with full color illustration to cover. Only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked text. A nice copy.

Record # 750772


Price: $25.00 

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval & Modern by: Breisach, Ernst
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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval & Modern by: Breisach, Ernst

Softcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 481 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W tables throughout. This book presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on such current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, women's history, and more. Clean copy. Record # 34188
Price: $12.00 

The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason by: Johnson, Mark
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The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason by: Johnson, Mark

Softcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 4th Pr., 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages, soft cover. Pink covers are bending, with a few minor blemishes. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book ranges over several central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity. Clean copy. Record # 34110
Price: $12.00 

The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History by: Russel, Jeffrey B.

The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History by: Russel, Jeffrey B.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, red cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Throughout history, Satan the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity through to the present. While recounting how past generations have personified evil, he deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil. Clean copy. Record # 33803
Price: $15.00 

The Rise of Christianity by: Frend, W.H.C.
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The Rise of Christianity by: Frend, W.H.C.The Rise of Christianity by: Frend, W.H.C.

The Rise of Christianity by: Frend, W.H.C.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Fortress Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 1022 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with a few closed tears and sunning to the spine. Leather covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a definitive text in early church history, offering a vast, panoramic sweep of Christianity's first six centuries, from the dust of Palestine to the court of Justinian, and the parting of Eastern and Western Christianity. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34046
Price: $12.00 

Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption by: Wolin, Richard
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Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption by: Wolin, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, The University of California Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary critic. This book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Clean copy. Record # 34191
Price: $20.00 

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