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Assertion and Conditionals

Product Description: This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

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9780521304115 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1985, cover price $62.99 | About this edition: This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief.

Paperback:

9780521071291 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 28, 2008), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief.

For Truth in Semantics

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Hardcover:

9780631145967 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1986, cover price $49.50

Necessary Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

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9780136113287 | Prentice Hall, March 1, 1989, cover price $37.70

Avenging Angel

With the deaths of young Scottish aristocrat David Glen Tannock and world-renowned scientist Dr. Charles Phipps--both members of the elite Cambridge society known as 'the Apostles'--barrister-sleuth Sir Patrick Scott suspects that one of the Apostles is murdering his colleagues

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

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9780312058173 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: With the deaths of young Scottish aristocrat David Glen Tannock and world-renowned scientist Dr.

Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

A collection of reviews and essays discusses each of the author's works and reveals how understanding of her writing has developed

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430288 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of reviews and essays discusses each of the author's works and reveals how understanding of her writing has developed

Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Reviews and essays offer critical interpretations of the works of Richard Wright and discuss how he made his readers aware of the horrors of racism in America

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430271 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Reviews and essays offer critical interpretations of the works of Richard Wright and discuss how he made his readers aware of the horrors of racism in America

Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Reviews and essays offer critical examinations of Alice Walker's works and the manner in which they address the struggles of Black women

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430134 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reviews and essays offer critical examinations of Alice Walker's works and the manner in which they address the struggles of Black women

Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

A collection of reviews and essays discusses the author's poetry and other works, revealing how reviewers missed the complexity of his writing, and how understanding of his work has developed

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430165 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of reviews and essays discusses the author's poetry and other works, revealing how reviewers missed the complexity of his writing, and how understanding of his work has developed

Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Product Description: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates

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9781567430172 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor.

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9781567430301 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95

Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Reviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781567430127 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison

In My Fathers House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

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By Kwame Anthony Appiah

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9780195068511 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 2, 1992, cover price $45.00

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9780195068528, titled "In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture" | Oxford Univ Pr, May 27, 1993, cover price $24.99

Overcoming Racism and Sexism

Product Description: This collection of new essays, by scholars from many different intellectual perspectives and ethnic backgrounds, explores practical as well as theoretical aspects of racism and sexism while probing the connections and differences between them...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (contributor), Linda A. Bell (editor), Bernita C. Berry (contributor) and David Blumenfeld (editor)

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9780847680313 | Univ Pr of Amer, April 1, 1995, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: This collection of new essays, by scholars from many different intellectual perspectives and ethnic backgrounds, explores practical as well as theoretical aspects of racism and sexism while probing the connections and differences between them.

Identities

Product Description: The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780226284385 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies.

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9780226284392 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 14, 1996, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies.

Africa: The Art of a Continent : 100 Works of Power and Beauty

Product Description: Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone, as well as mural painting, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles provide stunning proof that although these works were not made to be "art," they can be enjoyed by Western viewers purely on their aesthetic merits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kwame Anthony Appiah, Suzanne Blier, Ekpo Eyo, Peter Mark and Tom Phillips

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9780810968943 | Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, September 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone, as well as mural painting, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles provide stunning proof that although these works were not made to be "art," they can be enjoyed by Western viewers purely on their aesthetic merits.

Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race

Discusses the issues of race and color-conscious policies

By Kwame Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann

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9780691026619 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Discusses the issues of race and color-conscious policies

The Dictionary of Global Culture

Product Description: The esteemed scholars Appiah & Gates have compiled the first authoritative overview of global culture to emphasize the achievement of the non-Western world. Ranging from the Abakwa Society to zydeco music, the dictionary provides a vast survey of cultural subjects from all over the world -- East Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, & Australasia, as well as Europe & North America...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor)

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9780788197253 | Diane Pub Co, April 30, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The esteemed scholars Appiah & Gates have compiled the first authoritative overview of global culture to emphasize the achievement of the non-Western world.

9780394585819 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1996), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Ranging from the Abassid Dynasty to Zydeco Music, a reference work reflecting a global approach to world history surveys such topics as philosophies, writers, deities, rulers, artistic movements, and more from around the world

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9780679729853 | Vintage Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Ranging from the Abassid Dynasty to Zydeco Music, a rich reference reflecting a global approach to world history surveys such topics as philosophies, writers, deities, rulers, artistic movements, and more from around the world.

Venue: False Start

By Kwame Anthony Appiah, John Brenkman (editor), Wayne Koestenbaum, Ruben Martinez, Orhan Pamuk, Alisa Solomon, Xi Xi and Jianying Zha

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9789057013713 | G & B Intl, June 1, 1997, cover price $10.00

Venue: Boy Girl

By Kwame Anthony Appiah, John Brenkman (editor), Wayne Koestenbaum, Ruben Martinez, Orhan Pamuk, Alisa Solomon, Xi Xi and Jianying Zha

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9789057013911 | G & B Intl, June 1, 1997, cover price $10.00

Venue: The Killers

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Kwame Anthony Appiah, John Brenkman (editor), Wayne Koestenbaum, Ruben Martinez, Orhan Pamuk, Alisa Solomon, Xi Xi and Jianying Zha

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9789057013812 | Routledge, June 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.

Color Consciousness: The Political Morality of Race

By Kwame Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann

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9780691059099 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 16, 1998), cover price $35.00

The White Issue

Product Description: âI believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people will ever know and understand themselves.â âJames Weldon Johnson, 1912âWhitenessâ has become a critical keyword lately, as writers turn an eye to the last great preserve of identity politicsâthe unnamed, the unacknowledged, ethnicity of the white majority...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor), Henry Louis Gates (editor) and Michael Colin Vazquez (editor)

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9780822364429 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: âI believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people will ever know and understand themselves.

Harriet Jacobs: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates

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9781567430615 | Amistad Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $14.95

Transition 75/76: The Anniversary

Product Description: âThere will be no birth without miscegenation.ââRajat Neogy, 1961Transition was founded in Uganda in 1961, a time of seemingly infinite possibility. Kampala, the magazineâs home, was a cosmopolitan city with a literary community that included Chinua Achebe, V...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor), Henry Louis Gates (editor) and Michael Colin Vazquez (editor)

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9780822364580 | 75 anv edition (Duke Univ Pr, March 1, 1999), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: âThere will be no birth without miscegenation.

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780195170559 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 7, 2005), cover price $575.00

Racism

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By Kwame Anthony Appiah (foreword by), Steve Martinot (trans) and Albert Memmi

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Hardcover:

9780816631643 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $39.95

Paperback:

9780816631650 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $22.50

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