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This title is for pre-order and it will ship Fall 2024. All books ordered with this title will be held until this item is published and ready to ship.The Justice Reader: Classical Readings on the Cardinal Virtue of Justice is a timely and engaging collection of approximately 50 selected readings on justice. With excerpts taken from the great books of the ancient, medieval, and modern periods, this anthology will help students understand the great conversation surrounding justice.
Sku: 9781600516467(PRE-ORDER) The Justice Reader
By: Various$40.50 -
In refreshing challenge to the common presumption that knowing involves amassing information, this book offers an eight-step approach that begins with love and pledge and ends with communion and shalom.Sku: 9781610977845
A Little Manual for Knowing
By: Esther Lightcap Meek$24.95 -
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.Sku: 9781984856036
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders$27.99 -
In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman insightfully reveals the effects of television and media, which are training our habits, desires, and thoughts, and ultimately making us “decontextualized” robots. After alerting us to the dangerous effects of television, Postman offers suggestions for withstanding the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to show business, we must recognize the ways in which the media shapes our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape it to serve our highest goals.Sku: 9780143036531
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Postman, Neil$24.95 -
Ancient Rome by Richard J. Maybury discusses what happens when higher law principles and a free market economy are ignored.Sku: 9780942617566
Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Today (Second Edition)
By: Richard J. Maybury$16.50 -
Are You Liberal? Conservative? or Confused? by Richard J. Maybury discusses political labels: Liberal, conservative, left, right, democrat, republican, moderate, socialist, libertarian, communist -- what are their meanings and economic policies, what plans do their promoters have for your money, and what model do they follow?Sku: 9780942617542
Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused? (Second Edition)
By: Richard J. Maybury$20.95 -
On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right, and suppose they met after death. How might the conversation go?Sku: 9780830834808
Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kenney, C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley
By: Peter Kreeft$22.95 -
One of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century—Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy.Sku: 9780679724650
Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Translated by Walter Kaufmann$20.99 -
W. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present--and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our "personal density."Sku: 9781984878427
Breaking Bread with the Dead
By: Alan Jacobs$23.00 -
W. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present--and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our "personal density."Sku: 9781984878403
Breaking Bread with the Dead (Hardcover)
By: Alan Jacobs$34.00 -
The radical pamphlet that helped incite the American Revolution Common Sense is the book that created the modern United States, as Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society. Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself and set up an independent republican government.Sku: 9780143122005
Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine, Edited by Richard Beeman$19.00 -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is the ardent pamphlet that ignited the American Revolution, a timeless call to challenge tyranny and embrace the enduring ideals of liberty and justice.
Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine$10.50 – $25.50 -
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.Sku: 9780140447606
Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
By: Alexis de Tocqueville, Translated by Gerald Bevan$22.00 -
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are “desiring agents,” full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.Sku: 9780801035777
Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
By: James K. A. Smith (Author)$37.50 -
Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry.Sku: 9781666769685
Doorway to Artistry
By: Esther Lightcap Meek$44.50 -
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) spoke with great insight into every field of learning known to the ancient world. This included ethics and the arts, two topics of keen interest to ancient Greeks. This volume contains two of his most significant works on these subjects.Sku: 9781950271115
Ethics and Poetics
By: Aristotle$26.50