The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of ...
 Boring and important people omitted: Despite being really interested in getting a good overview of the various ideas and lifes of great economists and being highly motivated I have not managed to get past page 132 - it was such a boring read. It would be [... more]
$18.00
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Upheavals of Thought
Amazon.com Review: Upheavals of Thought is a big book in every sense of the word. It is a 700-page, deep-thinking, and far-ranging argument that emotions should be central to ethical thinking. From infancy on, we must find our way in the world, but, [... more]
$99.00
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Romanticism (Art and Ideas)
I'm glad it's not a coffee table book: One of the biggest problems with studying art is finding books you can carry and read. Coffee table books are nice to look at, but I find that most of the time I don't even bother trying to read the accompanying [... more]
$24.95
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Introducing Derrida, 2nd Edition (Introducing...(Totem))
A good glimpse at Derrida: There seems to be two kinds of people who read these books: those who see the word "INTRODUCING" in the title, and those who don't. The latter group seems to think that the books in this series are titled "THE [... more]
$12.95
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New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to ...
Amazon.com Review: Over 150 years ago, Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle dubbed economics the "dismal science." But it certainly doesn't seem that way in the skillful hands of Todd G. Buchholz, author of New Ideas from Dead Economists. In this [... more]
$16.00
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In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror
Plumbing the Depths of Terror: In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror (Washington: American Psychological Association, 2002), Tom Pyszcynski, Sheldon Solomon and Jeff Greenberg. Many have observed that America will never be the same in the wake of [... more]
$34.95
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Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos: How to Help the Child ...
Amazon.com Review: Psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino claims that 20 percent of children have what she calls the Edison trait: "dazzling intelligence, an active imagination, a free-spirited approach to life, and the ability to drive everyone around them [... more]
$14.95
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Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to ...
Symbol Sourcebook: I just recently flipped through this book and definitely stopped me from looking for the actually book I was looking for. If you love symbols, this is it. It contains symbols from areas such as medical field to underground symbols used [... more]
$49.95
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The Idea of a University (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
This is NOT Newman's IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY!: Unfortunately, this Yale edition leaves out about half of what Newman himself published in 1873 as the definitive edition of THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY. Published here are only the nine "Dublin Discourses& [... more]
$21.00
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The Story of Psychology
Very poor writing style, and very biased: This is the worst book on the history of ideas that I've ever read. The writing style is very low quality, and the word 'psychology' is constantly used in places where the words 'philosophy', 'ontology', or ' [... more]
$22.00
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The Art of Memory
An excellent exploration of a forgotten art: If you are fascinated by history or by scholarship throughout recorded time, you should enjoy this book. Francis Yates has created a detailed examination of memory techniques and their evolution over the [... more]
$29.00
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Jung: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
A Very Short Introduction book as it should be written: The task of creating a concise, well-rounded, and very readable introduction to life and teachings of Carl Jung seemed impossible to me until I read this book. This book is a true work of love [... more]
$11.95
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