History of Ideas Books


Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America Best Price: $12.00 "These thirteen books must be seen as representative, not definitive, works. They are nodal...	The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition] Best Price: $8.91 This was a required book for an econ class. The writing style is enjoyable, making it a book I...	The Library at Night Best Price: $16.71 This is a book that whets ones appetite for even more. Whether it is to re-read a classic in a...	Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition Best Price: $25.00 I never knew I didn't know how to write until I got this book. I have had to use APA style for...	The Art of Memory Best Price: $26.05 I consider this one of the most important books I have ever read. It changed my views on...



Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Best Price: $7.17 Someone scribbled the following on the first page of the introduction of my copy of this book:...	Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos: How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School (Formerly Titled 'The Edison Trait') Best Price: $5.97 My son's teacher suggested I read this after a discussion with her where I was slightly critical...	The Interpretation of Dreams (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.60 Naturally, I required this book for my comparison of Freud and Adler's dream analysis theories. ...	Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye Best Price: $6.38 I listened to this audio book for two weeks while commuting to work. Most of the theses hold...	The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation Best Price: $23.10 The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the...



Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital Best Price: $8.60 This popular history was in many ways just what I hoped it would be: colorful, weird,...	Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness Best Price: $12.24 This book is one of a growing number that question the scientific basis of psychiatry and in...	The Great Work: Our Way into the Future Best Price: $4.90 This book was recommended to me by a fellow Montessori teacher. Each one of us is created for...	Introduction to Phenomenology Best Price: $22.69 It is not important how many of books regarding phenomenology you have read, this Introduction...	A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future Best Price: $6.71 Poor writing with inaccurate "facts" and that was the first few pages. When I would...

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Best Price: $34.00 "Marita Sturken is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the...	History of Political Philosophy Best Price: $21.99 This is the best philosophy (not just political) overview I have found. The essays for each...	A Short History of Progress Best Price: $8.35 A concise, readable, and punchy description of the manner in which a number of historical...	Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.56 St. Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works is an incredible book. His proofs are amazingly...	The Division of Labor in Society Best Price: $11.26 A unique thesis: the division of labor is morally cohesive, and inheritance of capital is the...

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science Best Price: $7.86 I have nothing against humanities or social sciences. I even understand that they cannot be held...	Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Best Price: $15.70 I am not an expert, but bought this book on recommendation. Once over the first couple of...	Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life Best Price: $20.24 This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy...	An Introduction to the History of Psychology (with InfoTrac ) Best Price: $22.74 I think this book does a great job of presenting the history of Psychology while also explaining...	Against Intellectual Monopoly Best Price: $17.85 First, I have not read the book in this form. I read a free version online. There might be some...

Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $11.56 I was very disappointed that Vickers decided to leave out NOVUM ORGANUM, one of Bacon's most...	Fire in the Minds of Men Best Price: $26.95 Anyone who reads this and is still a bit unsure should read Yevgeny Zamyatin's book WE and...	Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography Best Price: $24.50 Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an...	Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America Best Price: $15.35 Published in 1988, this is fundamentally a textbook-like tome with little direct application to...	Philosophical Documents in Education (3rd Edition) Best Price: $51.49 This is a fine attempt at a survey of philosophical ideas behind Western educational systems. ...

The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom Best Price: $11.59 I have the desire to have the book translated into Chinese!	What Is Philosophy? Best Price: $12.00 Condition? Unbelievable! Delivery? It arrived so fast, time was suspended and then went backward...	The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Arkana) Best Price: $8.91 ...epecially if its not a special interest of yours? Well, just for the browser who may be...	The Passion of the Western Mind Best Price: $13.97 The comment on the jacket is right, the author has made quite a story of what could be pretty...	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.50 Burckhardt's work is a classic and is well worth the read. However, this edition by BiblioBazaar...

Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society Best Price: $26.95 Hollander hits an important nail on its head. Many members of the intellectual left have a...	Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age Best Price: $6.71 Will Durant opened many doors into the past for me with his books. Tho history can sometimes be...	The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature Best Price: $15.34 Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic...	The Cambridge Companion to Kant (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) Best Price: $19.93 Far from the promised "convenient, accessible guide" to Kant for "new readers and...	Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages Best Price: $8.33 I finish off a thread about the Dark Ages by reading about how the rediscovery and reinvention...

The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) Best Price: $14.83 A great book, but Johnathan Barnes, the editor, must be the living embodiment of Aristotle's...	Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature Best Price: $15.53 My group and I used this book for a presentation in our class in Marx and Marxism over at CSUF...	Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.54 Robert A Segal is Professor of Theories of Religion at the University of Lancaster, England, my...	The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things Best Price: $12.99 This book is a must for anyone who follows a structuralist view of art. Clear, simple but...	The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind Best Price: $2.60 "Alexandria ... the greatest city of the Mediterranean. It was a royal city, residence of...

The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) Best Price: $19.97 This is a very good overview of Plato's philosophy. I would recommend this volume for those that...	Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Best Price: $33.21 I was looking for a good book on the Enlightenment, but there are three problems with this one....	Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA Best Price: $4.99 This book is a semi-postmodernist criticism of a) biological determinism, and b) the widespread...	Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions Best Price: $18.60 Nussbaum holds that 'cognitive judgements' are attached to emotion. Of course, this is nonsense...	Intellectuals Best Price: $7.90 "Modern Times," by the same author, is a monumental work of history. Read that first...

The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy Best Price: $24.22 Plato's philosophy is not at odds with risk taking. It not a cold hard theory that makes one...	The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10) Best Price: $16.97 Let me state, before beginning to comment, that I did not read the English version, but the...	Madness: A Brief History Best Price: $7.81 Ror Porter's excellent book places the history of madness within specific social contexts. We...	The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) Best Price: $22.26 Hegel is a complex thinker, very relevant to modern political and sociological ideas. This is a...	Hegel Best Price: $33.99 A sweeping, insightful and erudite survey of Hegel's work, originally published in 1975 Taylor...

On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $2.89 John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England....

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