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Jews and Christians: In Contact and Controversy by: Horbury, William

Jews and Christians: In Contact and Controversy
by: Horbury, William

Hardcover. Edinburgh, T and T Clark, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 342 pages. Jewish-Christian contact and controversy were central to early Christian experience. An understanding of this contact and controversy and its continuation over the centuries is also central to any true understanding of the history of Christianity and of the history of Judaism. The twelve chapters of this book deal especially with the interconnected subjects of polemic and biblical interpretation. Nine are concerned with the ancient world, beginning with post-exilic Jewish writing and the New Testament and going on to later pagan, Jewish and Christian controversies. Three concentrate on medieval and early modern Jewish controversies. Clean copy.

Record # 386462

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoningby: Zakai, Avihu

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning
by: Zakai, Avihu

Softcover. London, T&T Clark, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages, INSCRIBED BU AUTHOR on the half-title page. Analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to place Edwards's writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period - John Donne's reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon's new natural philosophy; Blaise Pascal's response to Descartes' mechanical philosophy; the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwards's response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386529

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Klee and Nature by: Richard Verdi

Klee and Nature
by: Richard Verdi

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli , 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 258 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Initials on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean copy.

Record # 386482

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Knowledge and Its Limitsby: Timothy Williamson

Knowledge and Its Limits
by: Timothy Williamson

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 340 pages. Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a kind of mental stage sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks radically with the epistemological tradition of analyzing knowledge in terms of true belief. The theory casts new light on such philosophical problems as scepticism, evidence, probability and assertion, realism and anti-realism, and the limits of what can be known. The arguments are illustrated by rigorous models based on epistemic logic and probability theory. The result is a new way of doing epistemology and a notable contribution to the philosophy of mind. Name, light pencil notations on front fly leaf.

Record # 386478

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Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Two volume set)by: Bennett, Johnathan

Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Two volume set)
by: Bennett, Johnathan

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 1: 403 pages. ISBN: 9780198250913 Volume 2: 375 pages. ISBN: 9780198250920 Previous owner's name and information on flyleafs. Dust jackets unclipped, former bookstore's price tag on back covers of dust jackets. Some shelf wear to bottom of volume 1 dust jacket (see image). Black cover boards, gilt title on spines, excellent condition. Pages bright, spines straight, binding tight. Domestic shipping only.

Record # 99059

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Lectures in Neuroscienceby: Yuste, Rafael

Lectures in Neuroscience
by: Yuste, Rafael

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 456 pages. The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of billions of neurons within a few pounds of matter generates the unfathomable complexity of the mind. This book is a conversational and accessible introduction to the brain. Beginning from basic elements of neuroscience, the acclaimed scientist Rafael Yuste guides readers through increasingly sophisticated topics, developing a unified framework for how the brain functions. He describes how the brain is organized and how it develops, how neurons operate and form neural circuits, and how these circuits function as neural networks to generate behavior and mental states. Yuste challenges the traditional view that the brain is an input-output machine that reacts reflexively to sensory stimuli. Instead, he argues, the purpose of the brain is to make a predictive model of the world in order to anticipate the future and choose successful courses of action. He gives readers insight into the workings of sensory and motor systems and the neurobiological basis of our perceptions, thoughts, emotions, memories, and consciousness. Peppered with anecdotes and illustrated with elegant drawings and diagrams, this succinct and cohesive book is accessible to readers without previous background in the subject. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386436

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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition. The Lectures of 1827 by: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich/ Edited by Peter C. Hodgson

Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition. The Lectures of 1827
by: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich/ Edited by Peter C. Hodgson

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sotcover, 552 pages. From the complete three-volume critical edition of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, this edition extracts the full text and footnotes of the 1827 lectures, making the work available in a convenient form for study. Of the lectures that can be fully reconstructed, those of 1827 are the clearest, the maturest in form, and the most accessible to nonspecialists. In them, readers will find Hegel engaged in lively debates and in important refinements of his treatment of the concept of religion, the Oriental religions and Judaism, Christology, the Trinity, the God-world relationship, and many other topics. Name onfront fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386488

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Leibniz (Classic Thinkers)by: Arthur, Richard T. W.

Leibniz (Classic Thinkers)
by: Arthur, Richard T. W.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Polity, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages. Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important contributions to such diverse fields as jurisprudence, geology and etymology, while sketching designs for calculating machines, wind pumps, and submarines. But the common presentation of his philosophy as a kind of unworldly idealism is at odds with all this bustling practical activity. In this book Richard. T. W. Arthur offers a fresh reading of Leibniz's philosophy, clearly situating it in its scientific, political and theological contexts. He argues that Leibniz aimed to provide an improved foundation for the mechanical philosophy based on a new kind of universal language. His contributions to natural philosophy are an integral part of this programme, which his metaphysics, dynamics and organic philosophy were designed to support. Rather than denying that substances really exist in space and time, as the idealist reading proposes, Leibniz sought to provide a deeper understanding of substance and body, and a correct understanding of space as an order of situations and time as an order of successive things. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386490

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Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers From 1923 to 1938 by: Tarski, Alfred/John Corcoran (Editor), J. H. Woodger (Translator)

Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers From 1923 to 1938
by: Tarski, Alfred/John Corcoran (Editor), J. H. Woodger (Translator)

Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, 2nd Ed., 1983, Softcover, 506 pages. Contains the only complete English-language text of The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages. Tarski made extensive corrections and revisions of the original translations for this edition, along with new historical remarks. It includes a new preface and a new analytical index for use by philosophers and linguists as well as by historians of mathematics and philosophy. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386431

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Loving Ghosts: How the Dead Transformed My Lifeby: May, Robin

Loving Ghosts: How the Dead Transformed My Life
by: May, Robin

Softcover. Robin May, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Softcover. Pages clean. Binding good. Wrapper very good. In very good condition. The magic of May's journey portrayed in these pages will answer so may of our questions about the paranormal, while assuaging many of our fears about death and that which comes after.

Record # 99082

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Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerem naturaby: de Quehen, Hugh (Editor/Introduction)

Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerem natura
by: de Quehen, Hugh (Editor/Introduction)

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Previous owner's name and information on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, some light fading to spine of dj, glossy, excellent. This difinitive edition incorporates a commentary on the translation as well as an invaluable introduction, which includes new information about Hutchinson's life and writings, and a discussion of the De rerem natura and its impact on the seventeenth century.

Record # 99068

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Marcello Malpighi And The Evolution Of Embryology - Five Volumesby: Adelmann, Howard B.

Marcello Malpighi And The Evolution Of Embryology - Five Volumes
by: Adelmann, Howard B.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five large folio volumes, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 2475 pages, b/w and colored illus. (including foldouts. Vol.1 is a biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology. In publisher's slipcase. All clean, excellent condition. NOTE: These are five large and heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386461

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Marcusby: Sankey, Alice

Marcus
by: Sankey, Alice

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 32 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Unusual that this softcover edition with no credits other than the publisher's copyright. The hardcover edition has Alice Sankey as author, Rosemary Buehrig as illustrator. Clean copy.

Record # 386494

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Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Tolerationby: Teresa M. Bejan

Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration
by: Teresa M. Bejan

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages. We are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears critical. Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude views we deem "uncivil" for the sake of social harmony. By comparison, mere civility-a grudging conformity to norms of respectful behavior-as defended by Rhode Island's founder, Roger Williams, might seem minimal and unappealing. Yet Teresa Bejan argues that Williams's outlook offers a promising path forward in confronting our own crisis, one that challenges our fundamental assumptions about what a tolerant-and civil-society should look like. Clean copy.

Record # 386520

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Mighty Mouse and the Scared Scarecrowby: Sutton, Felix

Mighty Mouse and the Scared Scarecrow
by: Sutton, Felix

Hardcover. NY, Treasure Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated by Chad after the character created by Terry-Toon animators. Front cover with lightscratches, rubbing.

Record # 386497

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Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugune V. Thaw and Other New York Collectionsby: Bunker, Emma C.

Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugune V. Thaw and Other New York Collections
by: Bunker, Emma C.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Tan cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. A light smudge to foreedge. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2002-January 5, 2003.

Record # 99078

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Not Quite Three-A Whitman Tell-a-Tales bookby: Wolf, Helen

Not Quite Three-A Whitman Tell-a-Tales book
by: Wolf, Helen

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 28 pages illustrated in color by Martha Castagnoli. Clean copy.

Record # 386496

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Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations (Volumes 1-2)by: Hartley, David

Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations (Volumes 1-2)
by: Hartley, David

Hardcover. Hildesheim, Germany, Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volumes 1-2. Hardcovers. Vol. 1: 512 pages. Vol. 2: 455 pages plus index. Green cloth covers, gilt title on black on spine and gilt title on front cover boards. top edge dyed. Key work by British philosopher, explaining his theories on the mind-body connection, including his doctrines of vibrations and associations, the formation and growth of consciousness, etc. Clean copies.

Record # 99065

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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason On Vision and Colours On Will in Natureby: Schopenhauer, Arthur

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason On Vision and Colours On Will in Nature
by: Schopenhauer, Arthur

Softcover. Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1st Paperback Edition, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 487 pages. Softcover. B/w diagrams throughout. Pages clean adn bright. Binding good. Wrapper excellent, glossy. In beautiful condition. "In On the Fourfold Root Schopenhauer takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse."

Record # 99056

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Painting as an Art: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1984by: Wollheim, Richard

Painting as an Art: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1984
by: Wollheim, Richard

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., philosopher Richard Wollheim transcended the boundaries and habits of both philosophy and art history to produce a large, encompassing vision of viewing art. Wollheim had three great passions--philosophy, psychology, art--and his work attempted to unify them into a theory of the experience of art. He believed that unlocking the meaning of a painting involved retrieving, almost reenacting, the creative activity that produced it.In order to fully appreciate a work of art, Wollheim argued, critics must bring to the understanding of a work of art a much richer conception of human psychology than they have in the past: "Many [critics] . . . make do with a psychology that, if they tried to live their lives by it, would leave them at the end of an ordinary day without lovers, friends, or any insight into how this came about." Many reviewers have remarked on the insightfulness of the book's final chapter, in which Wollheim contended that certain paintings by Titian, Bellini, de Kooning, and others represent the painters' attempts to project fantasies about the human body onto the canvas. Light fading to dj spine. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386470

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Papers on Time and Tenseby: Arthur N. Prior

Papers on Time and Tense
by: Arthur N. Prior

Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. This is a revised and expanded edition of a seminal work in the logic and philosophy of time, originally published in 1968. Arthur N. Prior (1914-1969) was the founding father of temporal logic, and his book offers an excellent introduction to the fundamental questions in the field. Several important papers have been added to the original selection, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of Prior's work and an illuminating interview with his widow, Mary Prior. In addition, the Polish logic which made Prior's writings difficult for many readers has been replaced by standard logical notation. This new edition will secure the classic status of the book. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386432

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Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700 by: Kroll, Richard, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin

Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700
by: Kroll, Richard, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. This collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism, which emerged during the Civil War and Interregnum and came into its own after the Restoration, becoming a virtual orthodoxy after 1688. Dividing into two parts, it first examines the importance of the Cambridge Platonists, who sought to embrace the newest philosophical and scientific movements within Church of England orthodoxy, and then moves into the later seventeenth century, from the Restoration onwards, culminating in essays on the philosopher John Locke. These contributions establish a firmly interdisciplinary basis for the subject, while collectively gravitating towards the importance of discourse and language as the medium for cultural exchange. The variety of approaches serves to illuminate the cultural indeterminacy of the period, in which inherited models and vocabularies were forced to undergo revisions, coinciding with the formation of many cultural institutions still governing English society. Name on front fly, pencil marking to about 20 pages.

Record # 386515

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Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham by: Thomas L. Pangle

Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham
by: Thomas L. Pangle

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages. In this book noted scholar Thomas L. Pangle brings back a lost and crucial dimension of political theory: the mutually illuminating encounter between skeptically rationalist political philosophy and faith-based political theology guided ultimately by the authority of the Bible. Focusing on the chapters of Genesis in which the foundation of the Bible is laid, Pangle provides an interpretive reading illuminated by the questions and concerns of the Socratic tradition and its medieval heirs in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic worlds. He brings into contrast the rival interpretive framework set by the biblical criticism of the modern rationalists Hobbes and Spinoza, along with their heirs from Locke to Hegel. The full meaning of these diverse philosophic responses to the Bible is clarified through a dialogue with hermeneutic discussions by leading political theologians in the Judaic, Muslim, and Christian traditions, from Josephus and Augustine to our day. Profound and subtle in its argument, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion but also to thoughtful readers in every walk of life who seek to deepen their understanding of the perplexing relationship between religious faith and philosophic reason. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386472

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Prior Analyticsby: Aristotle, Smith, Robin (Tanslation,introduction, commentary, notes)

Prior Analytics
by: Aristotle, Smith, Robin (Tanslation,introduction, commentary, notes)

Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Hackett Publishing Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover. Dark blue cover boards, gilt title on spine, boards very good. Pages clean, unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. Light foxing to top edge. Dust jacket unclipped. Has a bump to dj top of back cover (see image). Very good condition. The first translation to incorporate the vast increase in the understanding of Aristotle's logic that has come about since the application during the last few decades of modern formal techniques to Aristotle's theories.

Record # 99073

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Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticismby: D.C. Stove

Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism
by: D.C. Stove

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 133 pages. This book aims to discuss probability and David Hume's inductive scepticism. For the sceptical view which he took of inductive inference, Hume only ever gave one argument. That argument is the sole subject-matter of this book. The book is divided into three parts. Part one presents some remarks on probability. Part two identifies Hume's argument for inductive scepticism. Finally, the third part evaluates Hume's argument for inductive scepticism. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386447

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Proclus On Providenceby: Steel, Carlos (Translator)

Proclus On Providence
by: Steel, Carlos (Translator)

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 126 pages. Hardcover. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, vibrant, and glossy. All in like-new condition, excellent. One of the most remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. It continues a long debate that had started with the first polemics of the Platonists against the Stoic doctrine of determinism. This first English translation will bring the arguments Proclus formulates again to the fore.

Record # 99055

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Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 5: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Jan. 8 1664 to May 1 1666 Inclusive by: Fernow, Ber

Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 5: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Jan. 8 1664 to May 1 1666 Inclusive
by: Fernow, Ber

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 355 pages. VOLUME 5 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386459

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Records of New Amsterdam Vol. 2: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens 1656 to Aug. 27 1658 Inclusive by: Fernow, Berthold (editor)

Records of New Amsterdam Vol. 2: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens 1656 to Aug. 27 1658 Inclusive
by: Fernow, Berthold (editor)

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 429 pages. VOLUME 2 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386458

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Records of New Amsterdam: Vol. 7: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Sept. 11 1673 to Nov. 10 1674 Inclusive. Administrative Minutes March 8 1657 to Jan. 28 1661 Inclusive. Indexby:

Records of New Amsterdam: Vol. 7: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Sept. 11 1673 to Nov. 10 1674 Inclusive. Administrative Minutes March 8 1657 to Jan. 28 1661 Inclusive. Index
by:

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 352 pages. VOLUME 7 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386456

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Restless Genius: Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thoughtsby: Drake, Ellen Tan

Restless Genius: Robert Hooke and His Earthly Thoughts
by: Drake, Ellen Tan

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, 386 pages. "This book interprets Hooke's Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes, and Subterraneous Eruptions (1667-1694). The volume consists of the original text of the Discourses transposed into modern type and paired with explanatory annotations; a brief up-to-date biography of Hooke, with emphasis on his geological contributions; and a comparison of selected passages from James Hutton, to show the transmission of ideas and Hooke's influence on later geologists. It will attract Earth scientists and science historians, along with general readers interested in the history of geology" (the publisher). Name and date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 386473

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Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends: with a Fragment of William Wottom's Lost Life of Boyleby: Boyle, Robert, Michael Hunter (Editor, introduction)

Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends: with a Fragment of William Wottom's Lost Life of Boyle
by: Boyle, Robert, Michael Hunter (Editor, introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, William Pickering, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and information on front flyleaf. Some light notations throughout (pencil). Dark blue cover boards, gilt title on red on spine. Binding good. Spine straight. Pages bright. In very good condition. "Robert Boyle was the doyen of the new, experimental science in late seventeenth-century England, author of over forty books on science, religion and their mutual relationship."

Record # 99074

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Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques:: Dialogues by: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques/Transl. by Kelly, Christopher, Masters, Roger D., Bush, Judith R.

Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques:: Dialogues
by: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques/Transl. by Kelly, Christopher, Masters, Roger D., Bush, Judith R.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 277 pages. One of Rousseau?s later and most puzzling works and never before available in English, this neglected autobiographical piece was the product of the philosopher?s old age and sense of persecution. Long viewed simply as evidence of his growing paranoia, it consists of three dialogues between a character named ?Rousseau? and one identified only as ?Frenchman? who discuss the bad reputation and works of an author named ?Jean-Jacques.? Dialogues offers a fascinating retrospective of his literary career. Clean copy.

Record # 386483

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Rural Hoursby: Cooper, Susan Fenimore

Rural Hours
by: Cooper, Susan Fenimore

Softcover. UK, Dodo Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages. Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (1813- 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She was the daughter of the well known novelist James Fenimore Cooper. Her most famous work is Rural Hours (1850), a nature diary of Cooperstown, New York. Amongst her works are Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America, The Lumley Autograph, and Elinor Wyllys; or, The Young Folk of Longbridge (1846), a novel. Clean copy.

Record # 386471

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Science and the Secrets of Nature; Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by: William Eamon

Science and the Secrets of Nature; Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
by: William Eamon

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 490 pages. By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines. Clean copy.

Record # 386475

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Selected Later Poems by: Williams, C.K.

Selected Later Poems
by: Williams, C.K.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2015 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 249 pages. The last book of poems published during Williams lifetime. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards for previous collections. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

Record # 386474

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Selected Papers on Renaissance Philosophy and on Thomas Hobbesby: Hobbes, Thomas/Schuhmann, Karl

Selected Papers on Renaissance Philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes
by: Hobbes, Thomas/Schuhmann, Karl

Hardcover. Dordrecht,, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 278 pages. Text in English and German. Offers the best work in these fields by the acclaimed historian of philosophy, Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003), displaying the extraordinary range and depth of his unique scholarship. Topics covered include Renaissance philosophy of nature; the development of the notion of time in early modern philosophy; Telesio's concept of space; Hermetic influences on Pico, Patrizi and Hobbes; Hobbes's Short Tract; Spinoza and Hobbes; Hobbes's political philosophy. This book brings together, in chronological arrangement, twelve papers. Though these were published before in some form, several were not easily accessible so far. All articles have been edited in accordance with the author's wishes, and incorporate his later additions and corrections. Minor bump to corner of cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386527

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Sitting Bull: The Years in Canadaby: MacEwan, Grant

Sitting Bull: The Years in Canada
by: MacEwan, Grant

Hardcover. Edmonton CA, Hurtig , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 386418

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Spinoza's Critique of Religionby: Strauss, Leo

Spinoza's Critique of Religion
by: Strauss, Leo

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 327 pages. Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from Epicurus and Lucretius through Uriel da Costa and Isaac Peyrere to Thomas Hobbes. Strauss's autobiographical Preface, traces his dilemmas as a young liberal intellectual in Germany during the Weimar Republic, as a scholar in exile, and as a leader of American philosophical thought."[For] those interested in Strauss the political philosopher, and also those who doubt whether we have achieved the 'final solution' in respect to either the character of political science or the problem of the relation of religion to the state." -Journal of Politics. "A substantial contribution to the thinking of all those interested in the ageless problems of faith, revelation, and reason." Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386526

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St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology (Oxford Early Christian Studies) by: Louth, Andrew

St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
by: Louth, Andrew

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 327 pages. John Damascene, a monk near Jerusalem in the early 700s, never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet he had a great influence on Byzantine theology. This book, the first to present an overall account of John's life and work, sets him in the context of the early synods of the Church that took place in the Palestinian monasteries during the first century of Arab rule.

Record # 386438

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The Cambridge Companion to Einstein by: Janssen, Michel; Lehner, Christoph (Editors)

The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
by: Janssen, Michel; Lehner, Christoph (Editors)

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 562 pages with index. This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprising fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the book opens with essays on the papers of Einstein's 'miracle year', 1905, covering Brownian motion, light quanta, and special relativity, as well as his contributions to early quantum theory and the opposition to his light quantum hypothesis. Further essays relate Einstein's path to the general theory of relativity (1915) and the beginnings of two fields it spawned, relativistic cosmology and gravitational waves. Essays on Einstein's later years examine his unified field theory program and his critique of quantum mechanics. The closing essays explore the relation between Einstein's work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386477

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The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais by: Francois Rabelais/Donald M. Frame (transl.)/Raymond C. La Charit?© (Foreword)

The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais
by: Francois Rabelais/Donald M. Frame (transl.)/Raymond C. La Charit?© (Foreword)

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 1067 pages. Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own right, bringing to twentieth-century English all the exuberance and invention of the original sixteenth-century French. A final part containing all the rest of Rabelais's known writings, including his letters, supplements the five books traditionally known as Gargantua and Pantagruel. This great comic narrative, written in hugely popular installments over more than two decades, was unsparingly satirical of scholarly pomposity and the many abuses of religious, legal, and political power. The books were condemned at various times by the Sorbonne and narrowly escaped being banned. Behind Rabelais's obvious pleasure in lampooning effete erudition and the excesses of society is the humanist's genuine love of knowledge and belief in the basic goodness of human nature. The bawdy wit and uninhibited zest for life that characterize his unlikely trio of travelers have delighted readers and inspired other writers ever since the exploits of Gargantua and Pantagruel first appeared. Clean, bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386519

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The Construction of the History of Religion in Schelling's Positive Philosophy: Its Presuppositions and Principles by: Tillich, Paul

The Construction of the History of Religion in Schelling's Positive Philosophy: Its Presuppositions and Principles
by: Tillich, Paul

Hardcover. Bucknell University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Victor Nuovo. Clean copy.

Record # 386429

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The Darwinian Heritage by: Kohn, David (Editor)

The Darwinian Heritage
by: Kohn, David (Editor)

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st pbk, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1138 pages. Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society. Sun-fading to spine and spine edge, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386525

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The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura (Cambridge Classical Studies)by: Butterfield, David

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura (Cambridge Classical Studies)
by: Butterfield, David

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Surveys the first millennium in the circulation of Lucretius' De rerum natura, analysing its ancient readers, annotators, scribes and owners. Name , date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

Record # 386451

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The Immortality of the Soulby: Henry More

The Immortality of the Soul
by: Henry More

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 539 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1659 edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386514

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The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art [Oxford Philosophical Monographs] by: Crowther, Paul

The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art [Oxford Philosophical Monographs]
by: Crowther, Paul

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages. With this, the first volume in the Oxford Philosophical Monographs series, Paul Crowther breaks new ground by providing what is probably the first study in any language to be devoted exclusively to Kant's theory of the sublime. It fills a gap in an area of scholarship where Kant makes crucial links between morality and aesthetics and will be particularly useful for Continental philosophers, among whom the Kantian sublime is currently receiving widespread discussion in debates about the nature of postmodernism. Crowther's arguments center on the links which Kant makes between morality and aesthetics, and seek ultimately to modify Kant's approach in order to establish the sublime as a viable aesthetic concept with a broader cultural significance. Chipping to read fold of dust jacket. Otherwise a super copy.

Record # 386441

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The Land and Its People - Volume Iby: Selina Tetzlaff Johnson

The Land and Its People - Volume I
by: Selina Tetzlaff Johnson

Softcover. New Jersey, Bergen County Board, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages. Volume one of a seven volume set on the history and heritage of Bergen County. Clean, like new..

Record # 386501

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The Little Train That Won A Medal by: Darlene Geis / Anton Loeb (Illustrator)

The Little Train That Won A Medal
by: Darlene Geis / Anton Loeb (Illustrator)

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 30 pages illustrated in color by Anton Loeb. Light wear to corners, spine. Otherwise clean.

Record # 386493

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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by: Kauffman, Stuart A.

The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
by: Kauffman, Stuart A.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 709 pages. Stuart Kauffman has written a challenging book on the general problem of the origins of life and maintenance of order in complex biological systems. Kauffman contends that the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution by natural selection must be extended to accommodate new information from molecular biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. Kauffman's hallmark is a shift to nonlinear paradigms for living systems. Kauffman argues that biological order is largely self-organized and spontaneous, and proposes to extend evolutionary theory beyond Darwin. His thesis requires three components: an understanding of spontaneous sources of order and self-organization; integration with natural selection, which in Kauffman's scheme molds biological order; and a consideration of adaptation. Clean copy.

Record # 386423

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The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell (Two Volumes)by: Marvell, Andrew/ Editors: Dzelzainis, Martin, Patterson, Annabel

The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell (Two Volumes)
by: Marvell, Andrew/ Editors: Dzelzainis, Martin, Patterson, Annabel

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003, Two hardcovers in dust dackets with sunning to spines, 479 and 493 pages. Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly Anglo-American edition. From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier, more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries. Name, date on front fly leafs, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386463

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