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A portrait of one of the twentieth-century's most influential philosophers draws on previously unpublished letters and writings to describe Wittgenstein's youth, education, private life, and major works

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9780029216705, titled "Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius" | Free Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | also contains Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius | About this edition: A portrait of one of the twentieth-century's most influential philosophers draws on previously unpublished letters and writings to describe Wittgenstein's youth, education, private life, and major works

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9780761503620 | Revised edition (Prima Games, October 1, 1995), cover price $19.95
9781559586511 | Prima Games, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: The portrait Bowen paints of this controversial man, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), balances the outward life and actions of Bacon with the seemingly contradictory aspects of his refined philosophical reflections. As Lord Chancellor of England, Bacon was impeached by Parliament for taking bribes in office, convicted, and banished from London and the law courts...read more

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9780823215379 | 2 edition (Fordham Univ Pr, November 1, 1993), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The portrait Bowen paints of this controversial man, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), balances the outward life and actions of Bacon with the seemingly contradictory aspects of his refined philosophical reflections.

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9780823215386 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The portrait Bowen paints of this controversial man, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), balances the outward life and actions of Bacon with the seemingly contradictory aspects of his refined philosophical reflections.

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Product Description: Lord Franks was an exceedingly deliberate man who, paradoxically, embarked upon his various careers--as don, mandarin, diplomat, banker, provost, pillar of state--almost by accident. A moral philosopher by training and inclination, Franks had a hand in the making of both war and peace in the middle decades of the twentieth century...read more

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9780198215776 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 1, 1993, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Lord Franks was an exceedingly deliberate man who, paradoxically, embarked upon his various careers--as don, mandarin, diplomat, banker, provost, pillar of state--almost by accident.

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A portrait of one of the twentieth-century's most influential philosophers draws on previously unpublished letters and writings to describe Wittgenstein's youth, education, private life, and major works

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9780029216705 | Free Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | also contains Doom Battlebook | About this edition: A portrait of one of the twentieth-century's most influential philosophers draws on previously unpublished letters and writings to describe Wittgenstein's youth, education, private life, and major works

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9780140159950 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1991), cover price $25.00

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9780198128274 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: In the Lent term of 1912, Ludwig Wittgenstein registered as an advanced student at Cambridge, where he had first come to attend Bertrand Russell's lectures. It was at one of Russell's weekly "squashes", held in his rooms in college, that Wittgenstein met David Pinsent, a fellow student at Trinity College, whom he was later to call "my first and only friend"...read more

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9780631175117 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1990, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In the Lent term of 1912, Ludwig Wittgenstein registered as an advanced student at Cambridge, where he had first come to attend Bertrand Russell's lectures.

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9780819552334 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $19.95

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9780192818782 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $9.95

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This full-length biography of the seminal British philosopher traces the course of his life and thought, illuminates the turbulent seventeenth-century milieu in which he worked, and examines his keystone work, 'Leviathan.'

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9780393022889 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This full-length biography of the seminal British philosopher traces the course of his life and thought, illuminates the turbulent seventeenth-century milieu in which he worked, and examines his keystone work, 'Leviathan.

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Product Description: Book by Victor Lowe

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9780801824883 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by Victor Lowe

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Product Description: The distinguished political writer reflects on his early years, particularly his youth in Austria-Hungary, his experiences as an immigrant in Palestine, and his conversion to communism

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9780812829976 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1984, cover price $5.98 | About this edition: The distinguished political writer reflects on his early years, particularly his youth in Austria-Hungary, his experiences as an immigrant in Palestine, and his conversion to communism
9780025650206 | Reissue edition (Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1970), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The first volume of his autobiography covers the first 26 years of Koestler’s life, ending with his joining the Communist Party in 1931.

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9780812862171 | Reissue edition (Stein & Day Pub, August 1, 1984), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The distinguished political writer reflects on his early years, particularly his youth in Austria-Hungary, his experiences as an immigrant in Palestine, and his conversion to communism

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The distinguished author, Arthur Koestler, describes his experiences and intellectual development and depicts his growing disillusionment with the Communist Party

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9780812862188 | Reprint edition (Stein & Day Pub, August 1, 1984), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The distinguished author, Arthur Koestler, describes his experiences and intellectual development and depicts his growing disillusionment with the Communist Party

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9780192875242 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 25, 1983, cover price $6.95

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9780824054052 | Taylor & Francis, June 1, 1982, cover price $53.00

Traces the life of the controversial science writer and novelist and discusses the themes of his major works

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9780025476608 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1982, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the controversial science writer and novelist and discusses the themes of his major works

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Product Description: George Henry Lewes, consort of George Eliot biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic, was also a scientist and philosopher. An intellectual figure of great importance on the Victorian scene, he has never before received adequate modern scholarly appreciation...read more

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9780674348745 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 12, 1978, cover price $25.50 | About this edition: George Henry Lewes, consort of George Eliot biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic, was also a scientist and philosopher.

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Product Description: In 1916 Bertrand Russell was prosecuted and fined for publishing (in defence of a conscientious objector) 'statements likely to prejudice the recruiting and discipline of His Majesty's forces.' He was almost immediately afterwards dismissed from his Lectureship at Trinity College, Cambridge, by the College Council...read more

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9780405100222 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 1916 Bertrand Russell was prosecuted and fined for publishing (in defence of a conscientious objector) 'statements likely to prejudice the recruiting and discipline of His Majesty's forces.

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Product Description: Book by Levine, Israel

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9780804608374 | Reprint edition (Associated Faculty Pr Inc, June 1, 1970), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Book by Levine, Israel

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