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By Jacob M. Held (editor)

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9781442253841 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 15, 2016, cover price $19.95

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9780231162647 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 12, 2013, cover price $35.00

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9780231162654 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 12, 2016, cover price $25.00

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9780199674459 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 19, 2013, cover price $55.00

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9780198768722 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 28, 2016, cover price $34.95

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9780226074030, titled "On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life: Reflections on Rousseau's Rêveries in Two Books" | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2016, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career. The Nobel Prize–winning poet, translator, and playwright from the North of Ireland is considered the most important Irish poet after Yeats and, at the time of his death, arguably the most famous living poet...read more

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9780815634607 | Syracuse Univ Pr, March 15, 2016, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career.

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Product Description: Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career. The Nobel Prize–winning poet, translator, and playwright from the North of Ireland is considered the most important Irish poet after Yeats and, at the time of his death, arguably the most famous living poet...read more

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9780815634485 | Syracuse Univ Pr, March 15, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career.

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A timely volume that uses the science fiction genre to provoke reflection and discussion on a variety of philosophical issues from time travel and artificial intelligence to trans-humanism virtual reality and neuro-ethics.
By Susan Schneider (editor)

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9781405149068 | Blackwell Pub, May 26, 2009, cover price $107.95

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9781118922613 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, March 7, 2016), cover price $21.95
9781405149075 | 1 original edition (Blackwell Pub, June 15, 2009), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A timely volume that uses the science fiction genre to provoke reflection and discussion on a variety of philosophical issues from time travel and artificial intelligence to trans-humanism virtual reality and neuro-ethics.
9780130581082, titled "Baedeker Tokyo" | Baedekers Guides, February 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describes Tokyo's tourist attractions, lists hotels and restaurants, and provides background information about the city and its people and culture

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9781444327908 | Blackwell Pub, June 3, 2010, cover price $83.95

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Product Description: Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes. Aristotle's tripartite soul is usually considered in relation to concepts of psychology and physiology...read more

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9781107024410 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 11, 2012, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes.

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9781316505335 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 3, 2015), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes.

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Product Description: Science Fiction and Philosophy deals with science-fictional thought experiments and their long history in philosophy, with roots back to the mythological inventions of ancient philosophers such as Plato and Zhuangzi. These thought experiments play a prominent role especially in current metaphysical theorizing about personal identity, artificial minds, and the nature of time...read more
By Eric Schwitzgebel (editor)

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9781119255437 | Blackwell Pub, December 14, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Science Fiction and Philosophy deals with science-fictional thought experiments and their long history in philosophy, with roots back to the mythological inventions of ancient philosophers such as Plato and Zhuangzi.

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Product Description: Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries...read more

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9780230340633 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 13, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life.

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9781137555595 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 28, 2015, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life.

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Product Description: With a new translation of the Duino Elegies “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’/orders?” Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies opens with one of the most powerful poetic expressions of the search for meaning in the modern world...read more

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9780810131354 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: With a new translation of the Duino Elegies “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’/orders?

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By Ralph C. Wood (editor)

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9780268019730 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $32.00

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Topics examined include general security, access control, physical devices and sensors, CCTV, fire detection and management, and audio control.

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9780810131347 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $99.95
9780409951592, titled "Tumors of Skin Appendages" | Hodder Arnold, September 1, 1987, cover price $115.95 | also contains Tumors of Skin Appendages
9780409951493, titled "Total Facility Control" | Butterworth-Heinemann, March 1, 1986, cover price $54.95 | also contains Total Facility Control | About this edition: Topics examined include general security, access control, physical devices and sensors, CCTV, fire detection and management, and audio control.

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Product Description: Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature. Despite a venerable tradition of thinkers having declared the death of tragedy, Antigone lives on. Disguised in myriad national costumes, invited to a multiplicity of international venues, inspiring any number of political protests, Antigone transmits her energy through the ages and across the continents in an astoundingly diverse set of contexts...read more
By Sean D. Kirkland (editor)

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9781438452937 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 2014, cover price $95.00

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9781438452944 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 2, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

By Philip Coleman (editor)

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9781619255135, titled "David Foster Wallace: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access" | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, April 1, 2015), cover price $95.00

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By Jacob M. Held (editor) and James B. South (editor)

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9781137360151 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 3, 2014, cover price $29.00

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Product Description: In his Essais, Montaigne stresses that his theoretical interest in philosophy goes hand in hand with its practicality. In fact, he makes it clear that there is little reason to live our lives according to doctrine without proof that others have successfully done so...read more

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9781611494792 | Univ of Delaware Pr, December 18, 2014, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: In his Essais, Montaigne stresses that his theoretical interest in philosophy goes hand in hand with its practicality.

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Product Description: This volume compiles twelve essays that reflect the surging interest in the Irish-born author Iris Murdoch as both a writer and philosopher. Beyond her impressive body of philosophical works, Murdoch produced twenty-six novels, several plays, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays during her multifaceted career...read more
By Mark Luprecht (editor)

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9781621900566 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, November 26, 2014, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume compiles twelve essays that reflect the surging interest in the Irish-born author Iris Murdoch as both a writer and philosopher.

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9780375750939, titled "Cracking the Boards: Usmle Step 2" | Princeton Review, December 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | also contains Cracking the Boards: Usmle Step 2 | About this edition: In the second part of a three-part series designed to help students prepare for the United States Medical Licensing examination, more than two hundred case studies similar to those on the test are presented for review.

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By Richard Wilson (editor)

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9780748694945 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, October 1, 2014, cover price $160.00

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9780748695591 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, October 1, 2014, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent the works should be approached as communications of their authors...read more

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9781441154002 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 14, 2013, cover price $130.00

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9781472579669 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 17, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge?

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Product Description: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolves over the course of the classical period. The image - as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originates as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of ideas, works of art, legislation, and the like...read more

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9781107017283 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2012, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolves over the course of the classical period.

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9781107423497 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 10, 2014, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolves over the course of the classical period.

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Product Description: For generations the elements of humor, poignancy, fantasy, and unfettered morality found within acclaimed children’s author Roald Dahl’s most famous tales have captivated both children and adults. Classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr...read more
By Jacob M. Held (editor)

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9781442222526 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 16, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For generations the elements of humor, poignancy, fantasy, and unfettered morality found within acclaimed children’s author Roald Dahl’s most famous tales have captivated both children and adults.

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Product Description: Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form. And yet, from ancient times to the present, they have often sharply diverged, both in their approach to these questions and in their relationship to one another...read more

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9781107010543 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2014, cover price $84.99 | About this edition: Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form.

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9780521281232 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2014, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form.

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